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...result, more and more high profile celebrities are skipping the red carpets altogether. At a recent upscale LA party, hostess Sharon Stone haughtily ignored the press during her red carpet walk, then repeated the process twice because she had forgotten something on the other end - completing a triple snub. "It's not cool to be on a red carpet anymore," says Martinez. "Celebrities are less willing to spend time on the carpet unless they are desperate or contractually obligated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Red Carpet: Minefield for Celebrities | 3/7/2010 | See Source »

...story goes, according to the local Thai press and the old chargé d'affaires. Thailand's Department of Special Investigation (DSI), which is similar to the FBI, says it has no evidence to confirm the facts of the case - and doesn't even know whether the blue stone that's said to be larger than the Hope Diamond exists. What is certain is that the alleged theft eventually cost Thailand billions of dollars, left people dead in its wake and put an Elvis-impersonating Thai official on death row. More than 20 years later, the ripped-off Saudis still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thailand's Blue Diamond Heist: Still a Sore Point | 3/7/2010 | See Source »

...Elvis Presley's "Jailhouse Rock." Chalor has maintained his innocence, telling the Times of London, "Not all people in jail are guilty." It's no wonder that after all the deaths, Khoja said there was a hex on the blue diamond and that anyone who illegally handled the mysterious stone would be cursed - something many Thais still believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thailand's Blue Diamond Heist: Still a Sore Point | 3/7/2010 | See Source »

...what it must have been like to be on one of those battleships. I used to wonder why in hell little Peleliu was in any way, shape or form so damn important. But then when you see how close Okinawa is, well, you immediately understand. Peleliu was a stepping-stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Tom Hanks Became America's Historian in Chief | 3/6/2010 | See Source »

...film. But by then, a second wave of Vietnam movies was in full swing (Full Metal Jacket and Good Morning, Vietnam came out in 1987), and he couldn't see how to deal with the subject more skillfully than Francis Ford Coppola had in Apocalypse Now or Oliver Stone had in Platoon - or more thoroughly than in PBS's 11-hour 1983 documentary history. In 1994, however, Hanks brought to the screen the impact of Vietnam on his generation in the tragicomic Forrest Gump. While the role earned him an Academy Award, Gump hardly epitomized the brutal nature of Vietnam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Tom Hanks Became America's Historian in Chief | 3/6/2010 | See Source »

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