Celebrity roundup
Sex and the City’s Cynthia Nixon is a new mom.
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Iranian filmmakers want Panahi charges dropped
The Iranian film community has called upon the judiciary to withdraw the sentence against prominent filmmaker Jafar Panahi, who faces six years in prison and a 20-year ban from filmmaking and traveling abroad.
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No guns, no bombs: Film follows Pakistani slackers
ISLAMABAD (AP) — In a country scarred by Taliban attacks and hobbled by political bickering, film director Hammad Khan found himself riveted by a creature so out of touch with reality that it almost inspires jealousy: the Pakistani slacker. He found such youth roaming the Pakistani capital’s tree-lined boulevards in tight jeans, sipping lattes at
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