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That was a very distant time. Today, film directors prefer to make movies based on old movies, not plumb the pools of their own artistry. Hollywood looks back, not inward. Nine, directed by Rob Marshall (Chicago) and scripted by Anthony Minghella (The English Patient) and Michael Tolkin (The Player), wants to do both: engage in a little navel-gazing while summoning the glories of Italian cinema in the Cinecitta era of the 1960s. Find a role for Sophia Loren! Cast Kidman as an amalgam of Claudia Cardinale and Anita Ekberg! And, just as anachronistic, have people sing their troubles...
...include any scheduled public appearances. Instead, the public will have to rely on the kind of chance encounters that made Obama as much a neighbor as a celebrity: taking in the Honolulu Zoo with his children, walking on the beach with his wife and playing pickup basketball with old friends. Sabina Yi, owner of Kokonuts Shave Ice & Snacks in Honolulu's Hawaii Kai, has a photograph on the wall of the day Obama stopped by last Christmas to buy a treat for his children. "We're all wishing that he'll stop by again," Yi says. "We call what...
...Nobel Peace Prize and his face melded with an image of Elvis Presley playing an ukulele in the movie Blue Hawaii. "This is a vacation place and not a retreat for Obama," says University of Hawaii political science professor Neil Milner. "On his past visits, he would visit his old haunts and because of the way Hawaii is, you can't be secluded like former president Bush would be on his ranch in Texas." The locals have their cameras ready...
...long-running battle for custody of 9-year old Sean Goldman ended Thursday morning with the boy's Brazilian stepfamily delivering him to his American father in Brazil, bringing to an end the five-year saga. Sean Goldman was brought into the U.S. consulate by his maternal grandmother and his stepfather, entering the compound's front door as a throng of reporters and cameramen tried to get close. His father, David Goldman, was waiting for him inside. Sean cried as his Brazilian relatives and family lawyer tried to get him through the scrum. He carried his luggage and wore...
...where they were," says Jeong, an evangelist in her 50s now living in South Korea, who uses an alias to protect her family back home. Despite their efforts, the Northern officials could not stop her. After she fled two years ago, she secretly began sending Christmas gifts to her old church. "Christmas," Jeong says, "would otherwise be meaningless...