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...this week at Hollywood's grand old El Capitan Theatre. A panel of judges (including Ben Stiller) will cast their votes for last year's best trailers: those 2 1/2-minute theatrical reels, 30-second TV spots and eye-grabbing teasers. Some contenders made bad movies look good (Pearl Harbor); some helped B movies open big (The Fast and the Furious); all of them "leave you wanting more," says Evelyn Brady, a co-founder of the awards show. She believes trailers "are the best part of going to the movies...
...When someone from the outer isles speaks of those who have moved to Lerwick, it could be the lament of someone from the Ozarks who has lost a loved one to the mean streets of Manhattan. But Lerwick (pop. 7,280) is an Old World village, with a bustling harbor and historic stone monuments. The main drag, Commercial Street, set back from the esplanade and guarded from the wind, is a winding, echoing cobblestone path lined with appealing shops...
...Georgia, at least a dozen al-Qaeda members are hiding in the Pankisi Gorge along the country's northeastern border, according to a U.S. official. They are thought to have arrived there after the fall of Kabul, finding the wild and remote gorge a safe harbor on their way from Afghanistan to Chechnya--where the Muslim rebellion is a favorite al-Qaeda cause...
...symbiotic solution: send reality TV to war. Last week ABC announced Profiles from the Front Line, from producer Jerry Bruckheimer (Pearl Harbor, Black Hawk Down) and reality-TV wiz Bertram van Munster (Cops, The Amazing Race). The reality series, to air as soon as this summer, intends to tell the personal stories of soldiers in Afghanistan, the Philippines and beyond. On VH1's tentatively-titled Military Diaries (also aimed for summer), more than 60 soldiers with cameras will record their days and talk about how music helps them cope. (As Apocalypse Now taught us, rockin' tunes are integral to modern...
...clergy acknowledge that divorce ceremonies are not for everyone. "Ideally," says Father Malcolm Boyd, 78, an Episcopal priest who has performed half a dozen divorce ceremonies for people of various faiths, "there should be two people trying to be honest, getting on with their lives and not wanting to harbor resentment. This could be an empty ritual without those elements...