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Documentary filmmaker shot dead in El Salvador
A French filmmaker who recently finished a documentary about a violent street gang in El Salvador was found shot dead in the town of Tonacatepeque, about 10 miles northeast of the capital city of San Salvador, authorities said. Christian Poveda, 52, was shot at least four times in the face, according to local reports
In Inglorious Basterds, Tarantino Stalks History and Hitler
Back in his days as the geek god of clerks at Manhattan Beach Video Archives, Quentin Tarantino must have looked at all those World War II movies, especially the ones about plots to kill Hitler, and realized what was wrong: everybody knows the ending. Bad guys lose.
Celine Dion is pregnant with second child
Making good on her expressed desire to have more children, Céline Dion is pregnant. A rep for the 41-year-old singer confirmed the news to various outlets saying, “Celine and René [Angélil] are very happy,” and “They are crazy in love over the news and …
The Dilemma of ‘Virginity’ Restoration
Once lost, virginity can never be replaced — but modern medicine now offers women a near-perfect physical simulation of their lost innocence. Hymenoplasty, the surgical reconstruction of the hymen broken during a women’s first experience of intercourse, or, increasingly, during demanding exercise or as a result of a collision or fall by women who’ve never had sex, has prompted a growing number of young betrothed women in France to make a last-ditch attempt to avoid the humiliation, repudiation, and possibly violence that could result from husbands and families discovering from blood-free bridal sheets that their wedding night had not been their first sexual experience.
Sarkozy leaves hospital after jogging scare
French President Nicolas Sarkozy was released from hospital Monday morning following a night spent under observation after he collapsed while jogging in woodlands near Paris. Sarkozy held hands with his wife, Carla Bruni, as he left hospital, shaking hands with medical staff before being driven away in an official car, according to Agence France-Presse
More Sex Please, We’re French
What could be more French than sex?
Many French Don’t Like Law Allowing More Sunday Shopping
Never on a Sunday? Not anymore in France, where the upper house of Parliament ended a bruising, two-year political battle by giving final approval to a law that will allow some stores to trade on the seventh day. Conservative supporters hail the law as a reformist boost for France’s recession-stalled economy
Air France wreckage arrives in France
Debris from Air France 447, which crashed en route from Brazil to France last month, killing 228 people, has arrived in France, the French air accident investigation agency BEA said Wednesday. “The debris ..
Laid-off French Workers Threaten Factory
In the latest episode of Protesting French Workers Do the Darndest Things, laid-off employees at the New Fabris car-parts factory have come up with a novel method of negotiating their severance pay.