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...Bollywood directors. "In the last five years," he notes, "they've been seeking a wider international audience, so they've been toning down their more risible cultural specificities." (Translation: fewer wet-sari production numbers.) This year Rituparno Ghosh's The Last Lear will play in Toronto, with all-time megastar Amitabh Bachchan - India's Brando and Fred Astaire in one big, bearded package - gracing the event...
Madonna has invaded Hong Kong. The pop megastar's likeness adorned most of the city's billboards this spring, her music was piped through its subway stations, and baseless rumors had crowds lining up for nearly a mile down Queen's Road to catch a glimpse of the Material Girl in person...
Hell hath no fury like a soccer coach scorned. Just as Los Angeles prepares to pucker up to its newest megastar resident, DAVID BECKHAM'S old team is doing the sports-world equivalent of writing nasty graffiti on the girls'-bathroom wall. After Beckham's $250 million job with the U.S.'s Major League Soccer was announced, Real Madrid barred Beckham from playing in any more games. And team president Ramón Calderón said the English midfielder is joining the Los Angeles Galaxy because no other team wants him. "David Beckham is going to be some sort of film...
...country-music megastar whose tour with wife Faith Hill was one of 2006's biggest moneymakers. He's also a doting husband and dad who has vowed never to spend more than two nights away from Hill and their three young girls. Now, with this week's opening of his family-friendly movie Flicka, Tim McGraw can add "lead actor" to his titles. McGraw, 39, talked with TIME's Jeff Chu about parenting, politics and the secret to the success of his 10-year marriage...
Chemistry can be a dangerous thing. Mr. & Mrs. Smith is one of those movies that has been marked with every possible harbinger of doom: reshoots, budget overruns, megastar casting woes, mid-shoot script rethinks and, of course, a notorious did-they-or-didn't-they on-set hookup between the two principals. So fervent is the tabloid interest that the two stars, who should be promoting their movie, are on another continent. Can the movie rise above its reputation? Will dozens of wrongs actually make a right...