Senate votes to override media ownership rule (Reuters)
Reuters - The Senate voted on Thursday to overturn new, looser media ownership restrictions in the 20 biggest U.S. cities, defying a White House threat to veto the measure.
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Dennis Rodman charged with attacking girlfriend: prosecutors (AFP)
AFP - Eccentric former basketball star Dennis Rodman has been charged with spousal battery following his arrest at a hotel in Los Angeles last month, prosecutors said.
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Country superstar Shania Twain and husband are splitting up (AP)
AP - Shania Twain and husband-producer Robert “Mutt” Lange are splitting up after 14 years of marriage.
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OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies - Trailer
A box-office sensation in France, comic star Jean Dujardin stars as secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, a.k.a. OSS 117 who in the tradition of Maxwell Smart and Inspector Clouseau somehow succeeds in spite of his ineptitude. After a fellow agent and close friend is murdered, Hubert is ordered to take his place at the head of a poultry firm in Cairo. This is to be his cover while he investigates Jack’s death, monitors the Suez Canal, checks up on the Brits and Soviets, burnishes France’s reputation, quells a fundamentalist rebellion and brokers peace in the Middle East. A blithe and witty send-up not only of spy films of that era and the suave secret agent figure but also neo-colonialism, ethnocentrism and the very idea of Western covert action in the Middle East.
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You Don’t Mess with the Zohan
( Release: Jun. 6, 2008 Rated: Rating Pending Details | Trailers | Photos ) — Zohan (Adam Sandler) is the top agent in Israel’s Mossad agency who gets tired of the constant fighting, but his only means of escape is to fake his own death. Relocating to New York City, he reinvents himself as a top hairstylist who gives his women customers great hairdos and a little bit “extra.” His newfound idyllic life doesn’t last for long, though, when some of his former enemies find out where he’s been hiding out.
