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...work on “The Condemned,” Austin had nothing but praise for the film’s performers and creators, especially co-star Vinnie Jones, best known as a soccer player and tough-guy supporting character in “Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels...
...escalating war of words between Washington and Moscow over U.S. plans to build missile-defense facilities in Eastern Europe has left U.S. officials wondering whether Russia is living in the last century. Sure, Moscow had reason to fear President Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" program, which he made clear was part of a plan to bankrupt the then-Soviet Union by pouring billions into a missile shield that he vowed would render nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete." But that was so 20th century...
...missile defense, Obering said. "We have a combined interest in stopping this emerging missile threat," he said. "It's not the Russians that we're worried about - it's the Iranian missiles that we're worried about. There's thinking inside the Pentagon that Reagan's "Star Wars" plan so unnerved the Russians that they're still suffering from a Cold War hangover and ultimately might see the light and cooperate. But that's unlikely to happen so long as NATO encroaches further east toward the Russian frontier. Russians have always feared invasions from the west, and it appears that...
...remains of Rhonda Archbold ascended along with the ashes of 201 others, including former astronaut L. Gordon Cooper and actor James Doohan, better known as "Scotty" in the original Star Trek television series. The space-bound ashes were packed into lipstick-sized cylinders, each inscribed with a brief tribute by their loved ones...
...Sending his wife into space as a posthumous celebration of her life on earth was an easy decision for Archbold, who paid $1,400 to Celestis, a company that pioneered memorial space flights in the 1990s. She had been a Star Trek fan since the first series on television and dragged her husband to many Trekkie conventions, where they had often seen "Scotty...