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| Paralysis In Athens |
 WITH an excruciating choice
between austerity measures
and a departure from
the euro, the birthplace of
democracy is paralysed
with indecision.
Athens - "What are we waiting for,
assembled in the forum?" asked the
Greek poet Constantine Cavafy in
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| OBAMA AND
SUDAN |
 I'D like to introduce a valiant
woman here, Mariam Tia, to
President Barack Obama and
other world leaders, so she
could explain how they're
allowing Sudan's leaders to get
away with mass atrocities that echo
Darfur.
Once again, in Sudan there ... |
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 | Idris Elba unbound
at the helm in
Prometheus
IT´S good to
be Idris
Elba these
days. The
B r i t i s h
actor is on television
and in films,
in the United
Kingdom and in
the United States.
After years of
chasing work,
finally work is chasing
him. Even better,
he´s producing projects of
his own ...
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Repeat for, oh, 10 or 20 years |  FOR the last seven years, John
Frame has been working on a
film in his home in
Wrightwood, California. Its
cast includes a cockeyed
skeleton, a bespectacled monkey and a
horned man sporting a cloak adorned
with eyeballs. Frame made all of the
characters himself out of wood and
found objects, built the sets, even composed
the score.
When he discovered that his characters
were going "wherever they wanted
to go," he let them. For the first four
years of the project, he worked completely
alone, driven by what may have
been a muse or "daemons," he´s unsure
which; not even his closest friends and
colleagues knew what he was up to.
Frame is part of an underground
group of stop-motion artists in Southern
California ... | | | Wigs on way to being
fashion accessory? |  IF Adele, Beyonce, Lady
Gaga and Nicki Minaj are
proud to talk about their
wigs, there´s hope for
those of us with bad hair
No longer are wigs seen as
the province of drag artists and
women who inspire drag
artists. Following on from
chunky platform heels wigs are
the latest accessory to be promoted
from "niche, trashy and
dubious" to "nigh a given". Not
for the average lady on the
street, perhaps. Well, not yet.
But certainly for young female
celebrities who now talk about
their wig habit quite openly
and happily, which means
wigs will probably be on sale in
your local Claire´s Accessories
by the end of the day.
Adele, Beyonce, Lady
Gaga, Nicki Minaj: all young
women, all proud to talk about
their wigs. Adele announced
on US TV that ... | | | Bollywood embracing trash
of the West: Tannishtha |
 ACTRESS Tannishtha
Chatterjee, who has kept her
distance from typical
Bollywood potboilers, skin
show and the glamourous
look, feels the Hindi film industry is not
adapting the right elements of Western
filmmaking.
Several actors like Deepika
Padukone, Bipasha Basu and Paoli Dam
have recently dared to bare in their
movies.
Asked if she is comfortable with the
idea of exposing on screen, Tannishtha
said: "I have nothing against skin show
though personally, I don´t think I want
to be a adult film star."
"But anywhere in a literate world in a
cultured society, that is an alternative
culture existing. Unfortunately, we are
embracing the trash of the West and
that´s very sad." She says ignoring skin
show is not the solution ... | |
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