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...Newman, Meryl Streep). His newest film, The Interpreter, pairs Oscar winners Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn in the first movie ever shot inside the U.N.'s New York City headquarters. TIME's Josh Tyrangiel sat down with Kidman, Penn and Pollack to discuss Kofi Annan, Chris Rock and Princess Leia--and to hear Penn dispense a surprising number of Borscht-Belt-or-better-quality one-liners...
...same, who would have thought it could be so much fun to be trapped inside the head of the type of person who so radically mislays herself? Someone who decides at 2 a.m. to take a hammer to her expensive patio? At her best, the woman who played Princess Leia in Star Wars is still the last word in snappy madcaps, Bette Midler in The Bell Jar. "Suzanne thought it hilarious," she tells us, "that there was an illness whose symptoms were spending sprees, substance abuse and sexual promiscuity. These didn't sound like symptoms at all--just a typical...
...first: to sit in the dark, the shadow and light of space battle flashing on their spellbound faces. And they came back over and over again. I drove by at least one long, snaking line in Westwood, holding down the humiliating urge to screech, "Yes! I am Princess Leia Organa, come to tell you all, come to tell you all!" But what had I come to tell them? So I didn't say anything. I just stared in amazement and wondered what it would ultimately mean. And now, when an old man of 43 or so strolls timidly...
...Cuban missile crisis, while Betty Friedan describes the scene at an official Washington lunch where she and some colleagues exchanged table napkins on which they wrote the charter for the National Organization for Women. Carrie Fisher tells about the day when Star Wars premiered and her identity as Princess Leia Organa became larger than life. Senate majority leader Bill Frist recounts how the news of the world's first heart transplant inspired him to become a cardiac surgeon, and Cantor Fitzgerald chief Howard Lutnick gives an eyewitness account of the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center that foreshadowed 9/11...
...LUKE AND LEIA Luke and Vader battle in V and VI but reconcile when the dark lord dies. Meanwhile, Luke's twin sister Leia strangles Jabba the Hut and fights for the freedom of Endor...