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...cable networks overdo it covering Anna Nicole Smith's death...
...Dirty Pretty Things, this film is set in immigrant London - this time, members of the Russian diaspora, some honest, most not. And like A History of Violence, it's about a mysterious gunman (Mortensen again) and his connection with an ordinary family drawn into the web of mob intrigue. Anna (Naomi Watts) is a half-Russian midwife who's come into possession of a diary whose secrets could bring down the gang empire run by restaurateur Semyon (Armin Mueller-Stahl). She makes the mistake of giving the diary, which she can't read, to Semyon, and he assigns Nikolai (Mortensen...
...such a taut film) has some sensational set pieces: a barber-shop murder in the first few minutes, and a long, brutal fight in a bathhouse between Mortensen and two thugs; they're armed, he's naked. But at heart it's a two-family drama, one being Anna's sensible English aunt (Sinead Cusack) and crabby Russian uncle (Jerzy Skolimowski), the other Semyon and his son Kirill (Vincent Cassel). Kirill is like a mutant Corleone: he has Sonny's hair-trigger impulses and Fredo's drug-addled weak streak, stemming from a need to be respected by his father...
Military officers are not generally made for the limelight. But in 1970 lifelong Army officer Elizabeth Hoisington became an all-out celebrity--and a p.r. gem for General William Westmoreland, who was shown kissing her in newspapers across the country--when she and Anna Mae Hays became the first two women to attain the rank of brigadier general. Before that achievement, she ran the female military arm, abolished in 1978. During her tenure, women's positions, once largely secretarial, expanded to include jobs in air-traffic control and intelligence...
...decide to get a face-lift at age 77? -Anna Clark, BLOOMINGTON, IND.It's kind of funny, but I've been exposed to a lot of G-forces as a fighter pilot and in space. That caused a sagging jowl that needed some attention...