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...style that owes much to Brazil's famous soap operas, in which every movement, emotion and line drips with melodrama, the film depicts him losing a finger in a lathe accident and then his wife and son in childbirth, before he bounces back to lead the powerful metalworkers' union in historic strikes that challenged the country's military dictatorship. (Read "Can Rio's Crime Problem Be Solved Before the Olympics...
...first he has to win back some of the smaller tent, where he's been losing a number of local straw polls of Florida's conservative GOP base. Crist has let Republican fundamentalists hammer him on the stimulus - and the now famous picture of him and Obama sharing an onstage hug - but his campaign is poised now to hammer back with reminders that as Governor he led a crusade to tamp down Florida's runaway property taxes and insurance premiums. Conservatives are still apoplectic about his appointment of an African-American Democrat to the Florida Supreme Court this year...
...laughs. It doesn't hurt that Anderson, 42, who has publicly referred to her surgically enhanced breasts as "Pancho and Lefty," embraces her own absurdity. "I'm here to serve you - and run provocatively to you on the beach when the tide comes in," she says, referencing her most famous role of C.J. Parker in Baywatch. Later, during a group dance number, she bounces in one spot for three minutes, flexing her bottom to the beat. Her bosom undulates so much that you worry she'll wind up with two black eyes. (See the best TV shows...
...This week, Aulnay officials announced that the town had been nominated for a Grammy by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences in the U.S. for the CD Chicago Blues: A Living History. The reason: town officials organized, co-produced and co-financed the 2008 recording, which features famous blues musicians like Billy Boy Arnold, Billy Branch, Lurrie Bell and John Primer paying tribute to the historical development and musical giants of the genre. Now that the CD has been chosen as one of four finalists for the "Best Traditional Blues Album" at the Jan. 31 Grammys, Aulnay suddenly...
...easily obtained in advance through a Vatican office or some of the foreign embassies to the Holy See. For weekly general audiences, which are held during the winter months inside the Paul VI auditorium, you simply need to show up early and ask Swiss guards at the famous Bronze Door for tickets. The occasional visits that the Pope makes to local dioceses in Rome (where he also serves as the city's bishop) afford an even closer look...