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NOW, what would a Bond girl be if she didn�t ooze sensuality, didn�t have a physique to die for, intelligence next to a rocket scientist�s, and gun toting skills rivalling a SWAT team? Lucky for the new Bond fl ick, Casino Royale, as the new Bond girl, the lovely French Eva Green, who plays Vesper Lynd, has all that, and more. Casino Royale was first released in 1967, and starred the vivacious Ursula Andress as Vesper Lynd. Green has some big shoes to fi ll, but with her killer looks and winning ways, it�s very likely she�ll be be making a defi nite Bond name for herself. If you�re wondering where you�ve seen her before, she recently starred opposite hottie Orlando Bloom in Ridley Scott�s Kingdom of Heaven, and her striking beauty was first discovered by Bernardo Bertolucci, who cast Green in his 2003 art house hit, The Dreamers.
Movie Review: The Mongolian Tale ( Hei jun ma ) - The Muse of Love Lost in Modern Times
You might have missed this foreign film when it was released in 1997 in the US and it wasn't widely reviewed, going to video in 1998. Based on a novel by Zhang Chengzhi, the actual Mongolian title translates into "black horse" and comes from a Mongolian folksong about such an animal. The main character is a motherless boy whose father (Gangbater) hasn't even taken the time to give him a proper name. Now transferred to the city, he brings the boy (Guanghulag) to an old woman (Dalarsurong), known for taking in strays — orphaned animals and humans. She already has an orphaned girl, Somiya (Bayirtcya), staying with her but accepts this boy, naming him Bayinbulag. The children grow up together as children of the grasslands.The black horse in question comes, as the grandmother says, like a gift from the gods.
No title insurance with Cubs
Tribune Co.'s sale of the Cubs apparently is off to a slow start, meaning any ownership change likely will not occur until after the start of the 2008 season. Then again, slow starts are a part of the Lou Piniella era -- if that's any consolation. Speaking of consolation, the sale is expected to be finalized before the Cubs win their next World Series. • • Former Cubs third baseman Ron Santo is on the ballot as a candidate for baseball's Hall of Fame -- as a broadcaster?!? OK, fine. Then there is hope Quick Hits someday will earn a Pulitzer Prize nomination. .
Cup day as it happened
CAN'T get to Flemington for the Melbourne Cup? Can't even get to a TV set? If you're unfortunate enough to be at work on this great day, look no further than FOXSPORTS.com.au. scott.heinrich@foxsports.com.au The Parade Ring: A warm welcome to all and sundry on this most majestic of sporting days, the Melbourne Cup. I'll be keeping you posted on all things Cup throughout the day, until well after the last race, slumped over my chair wondering where it all went wrong. Prior to race descriptions and results, you'll get ample opportunity to laugh at the Fox Sports Fiver - five sheets each-way on a nag in each of the 10 races. Better yet, your involvement is very much requested - email me your racing musings at using the address above. They might even get published.
Plame's beauty a contrast to serious CIA work she did
It is hard to get past the fact that Valerie Plame is so beautiful. Her image is projected on two enormous screens as she speaks at a Baltimore hotel ballroom packed with almost a thousand women at the Network 2000 Women of Excellence Luncheon on Wednesday. .
Novato's 'She Loves Me' is quite lovely
There is a great line in the movie "Roxanne," Steve Martin's modern adaptation of "Cyrano de Bergerac," where Martin is asked by co-workers why he's in such a good mood all of a sudden, and Martin replies, "Because yesterday she didn't and today she does." It is a wonderful movie that shares the same sort of buoyancy that carries along the stage musical, "She Loves Me," another great love story now in revival at the Novato Theater Company's Pacheco Playhouse, through Nov. 18. Anyone who's felt it knows exactly what Martin was talking about. We're not talking a merely speculative, petal-plucking "She loves me, she loves me not." We're talking a stop-the-presses, hold-the-phone, cancel-my-tango-lessons, jostle-the-postman (fling the mail!), shout-it-from-the-rooftops kind of she loves me.
Every picture sells a story
Magnum photographic agency began life 60 years ago. A few profoundly gifted individuals possessed of lofty ideals founded an agency that was to be politically engaged, liberal, humanistic and serious. When Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodgers, Robert Capa, David "Chim" Seymour and Bill Vandivert cemented the idea over lunch in the penthouse restaurant of the Museum of Modern Art in New York in April 1947, Magnum was to be a bastion of 20th-century photojournalistic values. You can see how magnificently it succeeded in a new book published by Thames & Hudson, marking the 60th anniversary of the agency. Magnum Magnumis a great slab of a book – 40cm x 33cm (16in x 13in) and weighing almost 7kg (15lb) – containing more than 400 photographs reproduced on a lavish scale and with equal quality, from Josef Koudelka’s photograph of a prowling hound taken in Sceaux Park in France in 1987 to Cornell Capa’s intimate close-up of Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable on the set of The Misfits in 1960.
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