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...fair, with the Osbourne family doing the MC'ing, the Brit committee hardly needed to worry about that last point. We would have happily watched Ozzy, Sharon, Kelly and Jack for the whole two hours - presenting the awards, accepting the awards, performing all the musical numbers - just to see what rock's wackiest family was going to do next. Would Sharon swear? (Naturally.) Would Ozzy mess up his lines? (Yep, both of them.) Would Kelly and Jack fight? (Alas, no.) Would Kelly and Sharon? (Almost...
Many of the interviews in the film, with neighbors and friends like Mia Farrow, paint a picture of Polanski at his peak, when he was one of Hollywood's hottest directors, fresh off the critical and commercial hit Rosemary's Baby and married to the beautiful actress Sharon Tate. "At a certain point in his life, Roman Polanski had a lot of hope," says Zenovich. "He was living this great life. He was so talented and everyone wanted to work with him. He had survived the Holocaust, soared out of Poland on sheer personality. I wanted to put his life...
...attaining mainstream acceptance, represented by his winning the Singapore Literary Prize in 2006. If he's proud, Wong doesn't show it. Self-deprecating and mirthful, he describes himself as lazy, living off his partner's patience and generosity. Though he cites the succinct, confessional styles of American poets Sharon Olds and Raymond Carver as his most direct influences, he feels little in common with contemporary American poetry, which he sees as solipsistic. "There's a boring sameness to it all," he says. "I wish they would stop harping on about their penises and their nose hairs...
...which was re-launched at an Arab summit this year, promises full peace with Israel in return for Israel's withdrawal from Arab territories. In Israel, there has been a fundamental shift in thinking at least about the efficacy of occupation, which led former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the patron of the settler movement, to withdraw Israeli troops and settlers from Gaza...
...students, but the university is reluctant to accept the praise. The Open Doors report, published Monday by the Institute of International Education with support from the State Department, states Harvard’s international enrollment jumped last year, moving it from 15th place to ninth in its rankings. But Sharon Ladd, the director of Harvard’s International Office, said that the 23-percent increase Open Doors cites is “misleading.” In previous years, Ladd said, Harvard only counted international students currently enrolled in the statistics it submitted, whereas other schools often include graduates...