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...both to present his Iraq war comedy The Men Who Stare at Goats and to unveil his new inamorata, TV presenter Elisabetta Canalis. When the film broke down at the evening screening, Clooney serenaded the audience with a comic-opera rendition of O Sole Mio that wouldn't make Placido Domingo envious but did wow the crowd. This weekend he's in Toronto with two films, Goats and Jason Reitman's Up in the Air - which, to end the suspense right here, is one of the festival's and the year's best movies. At a press conference yesterday, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clooney Soars in Two Films at Toronto Film Festival | 9/13/2009 | See Source »

...Boston, would preside, with six others priests participating, including Boston College Chancellor The Rev. J. Donald Monan, and the Rev. Mark R. Hession, pastor of Our Lady of Victory parish in Centerville. Cellist Yo Yo Ma would perform the Sarabande from Bach's Cello Suite number 6; Tenor Placido Domingo would since Cesar Franck's "Panis Angelicus": "The bread of angels becomes the bread of man..." (See TIME's Photos: "Intimate Moments with the Kennedy Family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gathering to Pay Last Respects | 8/29/2009 | See Source »

...unfortunate. After tourism was shattered by the swine flu scare, Mexico just two weeks ago launched a campaign to try to lure holidaymakers back to its paradise beaches. Under the slogan "Vive México" (Long Live Mexico), the $90 million effort is using such stars as Spanish tenor Placido Domingo and soccer ace Rafael Márquez to show off the golden sands. But while Vive México has yet to have much international impact, the wild seaside shoot-out grabbed the attention of TV stations from Long Beach to London. (See pictures from Mexico's drug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guns, Germs and Recession: The Curse on Mexican Tourism | 6/11/2009 | See Source »

Similarly, Glenda R. Carpio, associate professor of African and African American Studies and of English and American Literature and Language, notes the occupational advantages of having her beagle, Placido, around at her office in the Af-Am Studies Department. “As a writer, I appreciate having someone sit at my feet, but then insist on taking long walks,” she says, adding that she always comes back to her work refreshed and refocused...

Author: By Benjamin K. Glaser, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bark-er Center Goes to the Dogs | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

...voice cast heavy on Latino talent has helped make the movie a particular hit with Hispanics. George Lopez plays Papi, a Chihuahua next door with a crush on Chloe; Andy Garcia is Delgado, a German shepherd with a shadowy past; and Edward James Olmos, Paul Rodriguez, Placido Domingo, Luis Guzman and Cheech Marin voice other key roles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chihuahua: Hollywood's New Top Dog | 10/14/2008 | See Source »

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