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IFFI takes train to controversy, with Rooks
Controversy, it seems, is the other name of India's premier movie mela. To be inaugurated tomorrow, the 29th International Film Festival of India has already kicked up a row over the Asian competition section with Pamela Rooks, director of A Train To Pakistan, questioning the norms followed by the selection panel in choosing films for this section.
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Stars and their stalkers
Hollywood still holds its allure for ambitious actors and actresses from the American heartland. They continue to flock to Tinseltown, but those who have already found fame here are discovering it now has a terrible price.
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Armani on another catwalk
Giorgio Armani, Italy's leading fashion designer, on Thursday found himself tripping down an unusual catwalk as analysts at one of the country's most influential banks named his group the country's second most profitable company.
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Unions come to Buckingham Palace
Buckingham Palace was outraged when royal servants decided to join a trade union to press for higher wages, according to hitherto secret documents withheld for more than 50 years. The papers -- released at Britain's Public Record Office -- reveal that wage rises in royal palaces, castles, and other establishments were lower than those outside during the Second World War.
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