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...role than being a role model. Brando sanctified that posture - the insolent slouch - which over the last half-century has been assumed by a hefty plurality of actors and musicians (mostly male, but there are exceptions). If a star doesn't crash his car, trash his hotel room or smash in a photographer's face, he's not being true to his art, you know what I mean...
...Sunnis, the failure to smash the Mahdi Army is not so much an indictment of al-Maliki as proof of a U.S. double standard. Salam al-Zaubai, a Sunni and one of al-Maliki's two Deputy Prime Ministers, complains that U.S. forces treat the militias with kid gloves. "When they attacked the Sunni resistance, they flattened entire cities, like Fallujah," he says. "But when it comes to Sadr City, their approach is different. Why?" For their part, residents of Sadr City ask why the U.S. is attacking the militias--seen as Robin Hood figures--when they should be looking...
...into my hotel room after me. Fortunately, I snappily closed the door. Another, after failing to gain entrance by continually knocking on the door, settled down to wait outside. Neither my command for him to “go away” nor a threat to “smash his [expletive] face in” persuaded him that I did not want to “be his friend.” It ended only when I emerged, armed (rationally) with a pen, a key, and a coat hanger in order to flee past him to reception.Perhaps such unpleasant...
Pirates of the Caribbean may be this summer's smash, but Disney changed course last week, ousting its movie studio's captain. Next on the plank: 650 more employees and any new plans to make R-rated films...
...DIED. Gérard Oury, 87, writer and director of some of France's most beloved comic films; in St.-Tropez. Originally trained as an actor, Oury's modest success in stage roles led him to embrace film direction in 1959. His 1966 smash, the World War II-set La Grande Vadrouille (Don't Look Now, We're Being Shot At), sold over 17 million cinema tickets and reigned as France's most popular film until the Hollywood blockbuster Titanic surpassed...