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...stark naked in Calendar Girls, was all set to visit Sudan's Darfur region this week to use her celebrity status to call attention to the genocide there. A surge in violence prompted Oxfam, the sponsor, to cancel the trip, but Mirren refused to make her exit. After a minor script adjustment, she is now headed to northern Uganda, another African hot spot, where 18 years of war have driven more than 1.6 million people from their homes, including some 20,000 children abducted and forced to become soldiers or sex slaves. "Very often these sorts of conflicts become...
...fiscally challenged there is Party Central: A Month-by-Month Guide to Entertaining on the Cheap by the editors of Budget Living magazine, which serves up a year of fętes for every major holiday, as well as minor ones like Oscar night and the Kentucky Derby. The plan for each soirée includes easy-to-follow recipes, detailed shopping lists, music suggestions and answers to perennial head-scratchers like how many bottles of tequila you'll need for 30 to 40 guests (answer: two, at least for most gatherings). Party...
...gather all security information in a central clearinghouse to track trends, the agency is demanding that carriers "immediately" report to the TSA each incident that could be considered a security threat. The airlines already report security concerns to the TSA. But they say that being forced to report even minor incidents--and first to the TSA rather than the FBI, which has both the legal jurisdiction to handle crimes aboard aircraft and more experienced aviation-security agents--is unnecessary and will add delays. "The TSA has no idea what they are getting into," says one airline-industry source. "The airlines...
Casting for minor roles is equally important to Jeunet, and he describes how he would sometimes see 20 to 25 people for a very small part. For him, even for a character who just says “Hello,” it has to be the perfect “Hello.” The exception, Jeunet recalls with a fond smile and a tilt of the head, was Jodie Foster...
Eleven different minor infractions were called—hitting from behind, hooking, interference, obstruction-hooking, obstruction-holding, roughing after the whistle, roughing, holding, slashing, tripping and holding the stick—as was a 10-minute misconduct on the Black Bears’ Derek Damon...