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...bookend to the story of a great beauty, the kind that, along with an irresistible purity, entranced an incorrigible seducer named Valmont two decades ago, as well as a moviegoing public and now - only now, barely now - threatens to fade. As Lea points out, a good body does last a long time. So can a good face. But the undercurrent of what she's saying is that nothing lasts forever. She first gets involved with the 19-year-old Chéri, the indolent son of another highly successful retired courtesan (Kathy Bates) because she enjoys his youth and beauty...
...that might have been recycled from the Marilyn Monroe quote book ("The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think"). Some women might shrink from this fame tsunami; Fawcett expertly surfed it as if it were a Great Barrier Reef wave. Her talent, after all, was her ease in being watched, something she'd had much practice at. Her self-regard, which was well earned, found its perfect match in America's voyeurism...
...kind of defense against the new H1N1 virus. Since May 1, the FDA has sent dozens of letters to peddlers of sham H1N1 products - part of the agency's stepped-up anti-fake campaign that has agents sweeping the Internet for hoaxes and shutting down scammers. "This is a great example of using enforcement as a tool to protect the public health and achieve a credible deterrent," says Alyson Saben, the deputy director of the FDA's office of enforcement, within the office of regulatory affairs. (See pictures of soccer in the time of swine...
...back, and you had to wonder why. Certainly the BBC's Persian service, the most popular source of news for better-educated Iranians, was a real problem for the regime. Khamenei and various flunkies also blamed the U.S., especially the CIA, for the unrest, but the attacks on the Great Satan were muted - a curious development. Was it due to Barack Obama's initial, temperate response to the rigged election results? Was it a recognition that Obama's Cairo speech and New Year's greeting to the Iranian people had made him popular across the Persian political spectrum, a less...
Lieberman sees himself as an outsider in Israeli politics. He still marvels at the fact that he came to Israel as a 20-year-old immigrant - his first job was hauling luggage at Ben Gurion Airport - and now he's the country's Foreign Minister. "It's a great land of opportunity," he said, smiling. In his spare time, he writes film screenplays. "It's a hobby," he said, refusing to reveal the plot to his current work. "This is something for the next stage in my life." Hollywood will have to wait...