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Actor Harrison Ford, director Steven Spielberg and exec prod/co-story guy George Lucas waited for "the right script to come along" apparently, so is the return of the fedora and whip going to be the b...
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Published: May 20, 2008
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Only in Belfast for a day? Or even just a few hours? I set out to explore this hidden Victorian gem by land, sea and air in less than three hours - and I managed it for well under £50 (about $95)...
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Published: Apr 25, 2008
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During the mid 1980's, the British Army constructed a number of watchtowers across Northern Ireland to silently survey observe the inhabitants of the villages and cities nearby.
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Published: Feb 14, 2008
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Besides going to see them live, U2 3D really is as close as you're going to get - and it's the best seat in the house.
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Published: Feb 14, 2008
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Life imitated art off the coast of Northern Ireland recently when a strange real event hit the headlines - not once, but twice - and reminded movie fans of a frightening sequence in 1998 movie Sphere.
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Published: Jan 11, 2008
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It sounds like every man's perfect fantasy. Take something boring - like getting a haircut - and add the magic ingredients: an ice cold beer, your own remote control to your own flat screen TV, and go...
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Published: Oct 16, 2007
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Romance, revolution and poison frogs - maybe the ideal ingredients for a successful movie. At least that's what father and son writing team David and Matthew Eastwood from Coleraine in Co. Londonderry...
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Published: Oct 16, 2007
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Currently winning praise across Hollywood for her performance in Atonement, this Irish actress beat off many rivals for the lead role in Peter Jackson's next film The Lovely Bones - and she's still no...
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Published: Oct 12, 2007
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The Friar's Bush cemetery on the Stranmillis Road in Belfast may only be two acres in size, but its walls hold stories that are far bloodier than you would expect - plague, famine, murder and body sna...
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Published: Sep 10, 2007
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Movie fans might have a hard time naming more than a handful of cars they have seen on the big screen, although many would agree that there is only one that really caught the imagination of the public...
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Published: Sep 10, 2007
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In Los Angeles to shoot the video for her first single "Traffic Jam", 25 year old County Tyrone girl Kerri Moore had to pinch herself to check that she wasn't dreaming - and not just because it was he...
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Published: Jul 09, 2007
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Rogue Pictures (the company behind the recent remake of The Hitcher) snapped up the filmmaking pair, and producers indicated that this movie version will be in a similar vain to 300, the worldwide sma...
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Published: Jul 06, 2007
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Two Irish born and bred dogs specially trained in the war against DVD pirates are proving such a success around the world that the playful, 2-year-old black Labrador retrievers named Lucky and Flo eve...
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Published: Jun 06, 2007
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Actress Carol Kane has played a unique series of characters in her career, including a ghost, a fairy, a grandma and even Mother Nature.
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Published: Apr 06, 2007
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Even in an age of cheap airline travel, the public fascination with the sea liner Titanic seems never-ending, even though it's approaching the 95th anniversary of the day when the "unsinkable" ship hi...
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Published: Mar 15, 2007
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Actress Carol Kane has played a unique series of characters in her career, including a ghost, a fairy, a grandma and even Mother Nature.
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Published: Mar 15, 2007
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"My dad was always telling me that "Magic is great - as a hobby", so if I can entertain and take people away to a fantasy world where they can forget their troubles for five minutes, then I've done my...
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Published: Feb 13, 2007
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Michele Greene is probably best known from her five years on the seminal television series L.A. Law, but with the release of her second Spanish-language CD Luna Roja ("Red Moon"), she talked about her...
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Published: Feb 13, 2007
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With his shock of white hair, McDonough is instantly recognizable from another similar WWII television mini series "Band Of Brothers". He also scored big at the box office in 2004's Walking Tall, taki...
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Published: Feb 10, 2007
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Deliver Us From Evil, the documentary directed by Amy Berg and filmed on location in Ireland, California and Vatican city is in competition for Best Documentary Feature at the upcoming Oscars.
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Published: Feb 10, 2007
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Where exactly do directors and production companies go if they need to film their lead actors in a 747, snag a seat for the President inside Air Force One, or fly some revelers down to Rio in a Lear j...
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Published: Feb 10, 2007
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Around town at the moment are large posters of Finola Hughes, soap actress, author, style guru and host of the #1 rated Style Network reality series "How Do I Look?" which started its sixth series las...
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Published: Feb 08, 2007
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In an amazing story of overnight success, an unsigned Irish band has hit the #1 spot - only their hit isn't top of the charts on MTV, it's in the Arab Emirate country of Qatar.
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Published: Jan 21, 2007
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Scottsdale, Arizona resident Susan Brigham first heard about the Greasewood Flat restaurant and bar a few years ago, and was intrigued to find out more - a task that was almost as difficult as making ...
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Published: Jan 19, 2007
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What The Cluck? The Tic-Tac-Toe Chicken Challenge (noughts and crosses as it's known outside the US) offered the chance to "Beat A Birdbrain".
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Published: Jan 16, 2007
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There were plenty of competitors for both lists....
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Published: Jan 16, 2007
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lan Jenkins and Pat Burke have built a thriving business out of selling pieces of Irish earth - or as they call it "Official Irish Dirt" - and sending it to America.
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Published: Dec 06, 2006
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William McQuillan was a Belfast stoker, and his family had always thought that he was one of the many lost at sea and never found - until his granddaughter was amazed when she saw his grave on BBC Nor...
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Published: Nov 07, 2006
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Levett's performance in Access All Beckett has already been wowing audiences across the world, and Beckett's famous lyricism, insight and wicked sense of humor are permeated throughout this selection ...
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Published: Nov 07, 2006
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As conflict and war rages across the world, it's comforting to know that at the holy time of Christmas there's always the hedonistic, consumerist nightmare of buying gifts to fall back on.
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Published: Nov 07, 2006
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In Hollywood recently, the Motion Picture Association of America - the organization that regulates the movie industry - revealed their latest weapons in the fight: a pair of playful, 2-year-old black ...
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Published: Nov 07, 2006
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Since the MTA in Los Angeles have recently upgraded their building at the junction of Wilshire and LaBrea, it seemed time to have a look through their shelves and find out what people leave in their w...
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Published: Nov 07, 2006
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After demonstrating the unique DVD-sniffing skills of Labradors Lucky and Flo, the MPAA is bringing something with over 1,500,000 more teeth into play by announcing the creating of a Respecting Copyr...
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Published: Nov 07, 2006
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Dublin writer/director Tom Cosgrove has been awarded $15,000 as this year's winner of the 7th Big Break! International Screenwriting Contest. His screenplay The Sea Devils was voted the best script fr...
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Published: Nov 06, 2006
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For an Irishman, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers burst onto the big screen in a very unusual way, playing the nameless assassin who shot down Michael Collins in director Neil Jordan's 1996 film about the legenda...
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Published: Oct 06, 2006
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In a summer of bloated blockbusters that nearly all turned into big bombs, there's been very little to really enjoy at the movies. Little Miss Sunshine however, is one of the movies that looked like i...
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Published: Aug 29, 2006
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Although this thirst-quenching and wallet-emptying record is not for stout or beer, but for the world's most expensive cocktail - and it could set back thirsty punters nearly $1500!
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Published: Aug 28, 2006
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"I try to capture the unique soul of my subjects when I shoot them. All of these men have physical beauty, but what I wanted to achieve with 10 is something more than just photographing physical perfe...
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Published: Aug 24, 2006
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John McLaughlin (played by Nicholas Cage) and Will Jimeno (Michael Peña) were number 18 and 19 of just 20 people who survived the chaos that claimed over 2,700 lives.
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Published: Aug 21, 2006
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The Church hierarchy - full aware of his illness - harbored him for decades, moving him from one place to another to ensure he was not exposed and effectively allowing the abuse of countless children,...
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Published: Aug 10, 2006
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Almost unthinkable in the last thirty years, the city of Belfast / Beal Fierste is now moving away from bombs and balaclavas, and currently enjoying a vibrant and metropolitan-style renaissance.
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Published: Aug 07, 2006
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The three best places I have eaten vegan food - and I go back to at least one of them regularly....
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Published: Aug 07, 2006
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After they were selected to be one of the surprises in the Gift Bag at the Grammy Music Awards in 2003, things just went wild. Neither of us could believe it, especially me!
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Published: Aug 07, 2006
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"Kids come up and bust a move in front of me in the street, and then last week I was in the gym and someone asked me for my autograph - I couldn't believe it! I also recently ended up dancing at (host...
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Published: Aug 07, 2006
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In a year's time, the Women's Soccer World Cup takes place in China, and Heather O'Reilly is hoping to be a major asset for the USA team.
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Published: Aug 07, 2006
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It's a long way from his early childhood days in Milwaukee, where four-year-old Jarreau, the son of a minister/foundry worker, first harmonized with his brothers and started performing solo at local e...
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Published: Aug 07, 2006
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Whether he is battling demons in Constantine, romancing across the years in The Lake House or rotoscoped as an undercover cop in A Scanner Darkly, Keanu Reeves is an actor who, maybe unlike any other,...
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Published: Aug 07, 2006
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For a man who has been around since the 1970s, John Travolta has had more comebacks than any politician or sports star - and has managed to fit in becoming a qualified airline pilot on the way.
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Published: Aug 07, 2006
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There are some bands and singers from the 80's that have not been transported into the "Where Are They Now?" vaults quite yet. Sure, they may not be having Top 10 hits and platinum albums, but they a...
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Published: Aug 07, 2006
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Out of nowhere, a little 5 year old girl - who had been bored out of her mind until then - runs up onto the stage and starts dancing.
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Published: Aug 07, 2006
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No less than Bob Dylan came to hear her sing in a small Colorado club when she was unknown and it was her popularity there that led to her being signed by Elektra Records in 1961.
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Published: Aug 07, 2006
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This Irish actor has played such epic roles as Julius Caesar and Albert Camus, but he is just at home in the world of Persuasion and Jane Eyre, or maybe he might take a turn in such big Hollywood movi...
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Published: Jul 31, 2006
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Owner of the famous Santa Monica pub Finn McCool's, it was orioginally her father's bar in Newry, Co Down, which she has shipped over to the USA
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Published: Jul 26, 2006
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Meet Jessica Biel and Drew Barrymore - or rather, the person who doubled for them and did their motorbike stunt work - Irish-American stuntwoman Gloria O'Brien Fontenot.
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Published: Jul 26, 2006
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Boris Karloff will always be one of the true icons of horror for his performance as the monster in Frankenstein (1931) and with Elsa Lanchester in Bride of Frankenstein (1935), but off-screen he was v...
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Published: Jul 26, 2006
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There's cold hard cash behind all the talk, because as of January 2005 his films have earned over $3 billion worldwide, which makes him the highest-grossing actor in movie history, surpassing the tota...
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Published: Jul 26, 2006
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To the many millions of fans of the show she co-stars in, she's the man eatin', pill poppin', vodka drinkin' Karen Walker, but to her fans online she is also the Divine Miss M (alongside Bette Midler,...
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Published: Jul 26, 2006
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After moving to Los Angeles in 1995 he started his own furniture business in Venice Beach, where he specialized in custom-made Japanese influenced furniture. It was here that he first came in contact ...
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Published: Jul 26, 2006
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Cats, dogs, and even more unusual pets - Sherlock Bones AKA John Keane has helped track them down. He talks about his unique career, and the Irish heritage he has been seraching for.
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Published: Jul 26, 2006
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Film review of the latest Owen Wilson comedy featuring Matt Dillion, Kate Hudson and Michael Douglas in the story of Dupree, a best man who never settled down and comes to stay with newlyweds Carl and...
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Published: Jul 26, 2006
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An exclusive club only open to practitioners of trickery and grand illusions, the Magic Castle is devoted to promoting the art and history of magicians past and present.
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Published: Jul 21, 2006
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Haunted Studios in North Hollywood is an absolute must if you are a movie fan, or if you are looking for a more upscale way to adorn yourself for Halloween.
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Published: Jul 21, 2006
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Aero Mockups have a huge North Hollywood warehouse fully of endless airplane interiors, and have provided mockups to endless big movies and TV shows - they can even supply an "Aircaft In A Box" if you...
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Published: Jul 21, 2006
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In a country of hurling, gaelic football and rugby, a band of baseball fans got together, facing enormous odds and taking on the best teams in the world. Documentarian John Fitzgerald was there all th...
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Published: Jul 21, 2006
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It's strange to think today that the man from Ballymena in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, is now a most unlikely king of the box office.
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Published: Jul 20, 2006
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Michele was best known for her 5 years on classic TV series LA Law, but now she's more of a music maven, and talks about her upbringing, family and moving in LA
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Published: Jul 20, 2006
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Born in Georgia, former USSR, she also spent 5 years living in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and her voice has taken her to the top of the charts around the world.
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Published: Jul 20, 2006
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It's been a long time since he played "First Irishman" in classic 70's movie "The Long Good Friday"
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Published: Jul 20, 2006
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Keanu Reeves stars in this sci-fi story based on a book by Philip K Dick and directed using the innovative rotoscoping animation process by Richard Linklater
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Published: Jul 20, 2006
