Show Business: I’ve Got to Get My life Back Again

After his labors, the mythmaker plans to rest and perhaps retire From his office window, George Lucas looks out over a pleasant little valley to a pleasant little mountain, Mount Tamalpais. Small as it is, this friendly peak has an important if unheralded role in his life: it blocks the summer fog that often rolls in from San Francisco, eleven miles to the south, and makes the side on which Lucas lives and works that much sunnier

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Her Fighting Chance Michelle Rodriguez was an extra a few years ago. The boxing drama Girlfight could make her a star

By In 1998, it looked as though the movie world was about to knock Michelle Rodriguez out of the ring. The would-be actress was living with her mother in Jersey City, N.J., and laboring as an extra in movies like Summer of Sam; the thankless, anonymous work was wearing her out

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Dad in Japan custody battle thought wife would take kids

On February 12, 2009, Christopher Savoie received an e-mail from his ex-wife that he had feared would come. About a month after their bitter divorce, in which Noriko Savoie promised as part of the agreement she wouldn’t return to Japan with their children to live, she threatened to do just that.

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