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Audiences have shied away from Last Castle, and most critics have declared it a stinker, except for one thing: Redford's performance as a court-martialed three-star general leading a prison revolt. He says he was intrigued by the role because he hadn't played a military character before. Still, it's the kind of part he specializes in: the canny outsider itching to outsmart the system. He has higher hopes for Spy Game, in which he co-stars with Brad Pitt, whom he directed in the 1992 drama A River Runs Through It. With Pitt as his former...
...1970s, when his stardom was at its most luminous--with The Sting, The Way We Were, Condor and All the President's Men--he preferred the Utah mountains to Beverly Hills, taking three- and four-year breaks from acting. Except for a romance with actress Sonia Braga, whom he directed in The Milagro Beanfield War (1988), his private life has seldom drawn the spotlight. He has had only one marriage, to Lola Van Wagenen, which ended after 27 years, in 1985. And none of his three grown kids appears to have a Daddy Dearest story to tell...
...does it provide the ears with endless fun. One need only listen to ANThology, the recent album that launched “Smooth Criminal” and the original single “Movies,” and know all one would ever need, or want, to know. (Except for the silly name, which deserves a quick explanation: Don’t worry, it’s just a stupid in-joke...
...Taliban is prompting a growing power struggle among its enemies, north and south. Although they're committed to negotiating a broad-based inclusive government, the Northern Alliance have taken control of the capital, and are looking to set the terms of political negotiations. The Alliance has invited all groups except the Taliban for talks in Kabul, a slap down of Pakistan's suggestion that "moderate Taliban" elements have a role in a future government. (The Alliance believes "moderate Taliban" is an oxymoron, and is hostile to any Pakistani influence in Kabul.) And while the U.S. had hoped...
...halfway through lunch at roadside restaurant in central Jalalabad when we heard the first gunfire. The place was empty except for an elderly bearded man at a table nearby, and my driver and I were sharing Kabuli pulao (rice), Afghani tikka (barbeque meat) and Kandhari nan (bread) with a television repairman we'd picked up at Torkham. TV repair was a bad business to be in, Sardar Mohammed told me, because the Taliban had banned television. But he'd helped me negotiate two-way cab fare with Mohibullah, the driver. It was 12:30pm, a pleasant afternoon with soothing breeze...