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more about #outofafrica more comments → Maggita: "I asked her what she needed most. 'Someplace safe,' she said. 'Someplace to be a girl. Someplace where I won’t have to have sex with men anymore.'"... more » clevernamehere: These are the stories I think about when Jez has posts about happy, college educated sex workers. Its not that I doubt that sex workers by choice exi... more » DutchessOfDork: Swaziland King's solution to HIV/AIDS crises was telling people to stop having sex for 5 years. This was whilst he took on a few more wives. So I thin... more » CurtCole: "a prominent minister suggested that AIDS and HIV victims be "branded,"' Oh, go save a soul. more » Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!: One of my favorite Old Hollywood anecdotes involves an actress auditioning for a lech and, finally, removing her falsies, handing them to him and sayi... more » TransFat: You'd think with being told that she's the greatest living actress/of her generation over and over would make her untouchable and holier than thou. Bu... more » Dayman-Fan: Dude, how incredible is it to be Amy Adams? She's done two movies with and has become friends with freakin' Meryl Streep. That's like a basketball pla... more » DuckDuckGoose: Turns out that Pollack worried Robert Redford wasn't quite manly enough for his role, and Redford used essentially the same trick to get the part. more » sybann: My love for this woman knows no bounds. She's so good it's intimidating. I find myself picking up ticks from her characters after one viewing of a mov... more » andBegorrah: While Megan Fox grips her car polish buffer and cries, cries, cries. more » Penny: I see she wore the same outfit to her premiere? That makes me love her more. more » MissBrittleBones: Out of Afri-cans. more » J.D.Regent: Poor Meryl, imagine how many anecdotes she has had to tell at how many interviews over the course of her career. At the same time I do sort of long f... more » Yahtzii: Well, this is a phrase I've never expected to use, but: You're too good for Sydney Pollack! more » The Queen of No: I'm definitely checking it out! Thanks for posting about this. more » -
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Truck Stop Girls Just Want "Someplace Safe"
There's a heartbreaking account in this week's New York Times magazine about Swaziland's "truck-stop girls." And the sad thing is, this is one of the better stories. More » -
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Meryl Streep's Top-Secret Career Boost
Last night Meryl Streep told Conan O'Brien that when auditioning for Out Of Africa, director Sydney Pollack didn't think she wasn't "sexy" enough to play a Danish writer. Meryl had a solution for that: Paper towels. -
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HBO Premieres No.1 Ladies' Detective Show
There have been dozens of TV detective shows, but The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency presents two things rarely seen on American TV: An African female lead character and a flattering portrait of the continent. More » -
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Young Love
Two German children, ages six and seven, who say they are "very much in love," decided to get married in Africa "where it is warm" and went to the train station, where police apprehended them.
