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...always appeared to have a ride home with one of his cool actor-brothers, Luke, 35, and Andrew, 43, or someone as blonde, pretty, rich and famous as he, like Kate Hudson. When he wasn't busy filming blockbuster comedies that played off his lovable slacker image or writing smart scripts like Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums with his friend from Texas, director Wes Anderson, Wilson's life as documented by the tabloids consisted of tossing a football at the beach, riding his scooter alongside his dog, Garcia, and dating whatever impossibly beautiful woman he wanted. The gossip site Defamer.com...
...city. In the 1970s, this vast shanty town became a locus of revolution. After the end of apartheid, its tin shacks and dusty back alleys retained a reputation for poverty, unrest and crime. Maponya is undeterred. Poverty and violence are part of Soweto, he admits. But today so are smart bungalows (including one still owned by Maponya himself), private schools and hip restaurants. "I believe Soweto is the strongest suburb in the country," he says. "With an estimated 5 million people, it's one of the biggest cities in South Africa. And yet if people want to buy good clothes...
...Yeltsin accepted his advisers' suggestions, and in July 1998, on the 80th anniversary of the Imperial family's execution, the remains were laid in state in the Romanov Dynasty burial place in the Petropavlovsky Cathedral in St. Petersburg. Yeltsin saw this as a humane act of repentance - and a smart step to defuse the growing Nationalist threat without stirring further rifts with the Communists by formally charging their party with the Imperial family's murder...
...earlier this month, when Harvey announced that his new venture, The Weinstein Company (TWC), will oversee a $285 million dollar fund toward the production and distribution of 31 "Asian films," the industry was in a muddle over whether this was a lavish pronouncement or just plain smart business sense. The move is expected to help the company cut costs, and it may also allow the Weinsteins to stake a claim on the growing market of Asian film viewers...
...Fellow nurse Kelly Kuglitsch, 29, of Muskego, Wis., who is eight months pregnant, says belly dancing has made her backaches disappear. Another perk: "It makes me feel sexy," she says. "I go home and show my husband my new moves. He thinks it's really cute." Then again, no smart husband would dare say otherwise...