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MARRIED. Simon Le Bon, 27, lead singer of the rock group Duran Duran and aspiring sailboat racer, who almost died last summer when his 77-ft. sloop capsized during a race; and Yasmin Parvaneh, 21, half-Iranian British model; in Oxford, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 6, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...first-time movie actor was playing a character based loosely on himself—an American-born half-Iranian, half-Latino young man, who travels to Iran to find his roots. His character attempts suicide after a confrontation with his father. Rossoukh, who did all his own stunts, had to jump into a deep pool of water with a rock tied to his ankle by a rope in a slipknot. Though he had practiced untying it, during the actual filming, while resting on the bottom of the pool and acting as if he were drowning, Rossoukh had trouble releasing...

Author: By Alexandra B. Moss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Section Leaders of the Silver Screen | 11/14/2002 | See Source »

...only political problems but domestic ones. Though his father sired four daughters and seven sons, the Shah still has no male heir to his throne. In 1948, after she had borne him one daughter, he divorced Egypt's Fawzia and three years later married the handsome half-German, half-Iranian Soraya. Despite Soraya's famed fiery temper, it was with regret that the Shah divorced her in 1958, apparently convinced that she was barren -a charge that makes Soraya angry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Reformer in Shako | 9/12/1960 | See Source »

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