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...went immediately to his neighbor's house. "There was blood everywhere, Faiz recalls. "There were dead bodies." He says six members of the Daad family had been killed - three men, two women and a young girl. Australian Defence officials say the house, in Chenartu village in southern Afghanistan's Uruzgan province, was raided by Australian troops of the Internatonal Security Assistance Force (ISAF) because it was an "extremist Taliban compound." They said several of the people inside - including one of the women killed - were armed and that they initiated a fierce firefight. Australian commando Luke Worsley was shot dead...
...year-old wears her hair in a beehive so large and teetering that it could hide the chorus of middle-aged black women that seems to materialize at the back of her throat whenever she sings. Having once thought herself overweight, Winehouse now keeps her body little-girl tiny and covered with enough tattoos to earn her cred at a medium-security prison. Onstage, she's known to favor poodle skirts. It's an aesthetic that takes some getting used...
...supporting acting nominations for Hal Holbrook, 82, and Ruby Dee, 83. Not to forget, so to speak, Away from Her, the Alzheimer's drama with Julie Christie. I imagine the elder members saying, "Let's vote for, you know, that movie about the thing, with that Darling girl...
...since it was directed by Sarah Polley, who turned 28 this month; Polley also got a nomination for Adapted Screenplay. A slot for Best Actress slot was filled by Juno's Ellen Page, the 20-year-old Nova Scotian, and for Supporting Actress, Saoirse Ronan, 13, as the girl whose first view of sex shocks her into a lie that outlives its victims...
...Tricky's Dark and Brooding Maxinquaye album was launched into outer space on a rocket ship commanded by Björk, it might sound something like the Analog Girl. A 34-year-old Singaporean, Mei Wong has come far since she recorded her first melody on a cassette tape at age 7. Nowadays, she uses a MacBook Pro, a digital sound box, a set of toy xylophones and her voice to produce her own brand of futuristic electro-pop, and takes her low-key show - it often just involves her, a laptop and a microphone - to venues such...