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First, Rubiana Ali and Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, both 9 years old, starred in an Oscar-winning motion picture. Now they are appearing in real-life soap operas. The paparazzi are everywhere, as are reporters who want to talk to the kid stars of Slumdog Millionaire. Their lives are making the gossip columns and headlines in their native India - and overseas. Azhar was reportedly slapped by his father when the boy, begging fatigue from traveling back from the Academy Awards in Hollywood, refused to give an interview his father had apparently promised. (Both were penitent afterward: Azhar said he had been...
JENNIFER ANISTON wants to be an action star. Also hopes to win Oscar, adopt African child...
...apart when Lorna starts to fall for Claudy. The Silence of Lorna, which opens in the U.S. in July, is as much a love story as it is a thriller, and - being a Dardenne film - it has a good dose of social criticism, too. (See pictures of the best Oscar dresses...
William Friedkin doesn’t know how he survived the making of “The French Connection,” his 1971 police-procedural classic.As the Oscar-winning director tells it, his appearance some 35 years later at the Harvard Film Archive’s two-week retrospective of his work can only be explained by miracle. “It was the Movie God again,” he said. Only some sort of cinematic deity could’ve saved him, he says, from the perils of one of the movie’s most famous...
Academy Awards • annual horrible presentation of prompts critic Tom Shales to observe, "The Oscar ceremony has been televised since the early '50s, but they still haven't gotten the bugs...