Hollywood Finds a New Set In Vast Desert of Namibia
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NAMIB DESERT, Namibia -- The blonde in the cowboy hat stepped forward with slow, swaggering menace, her boots crunching audibly on the sand below. As the camera zoomed tight on her green zombie eyes, the desert beyond completed the scene with the kind of bleached-out desolation no Hollywood studio could provide....
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The Sundance Film Festival, which opens with âIn Bruges,â the playwright Martin McDonaghâs film debut, is one of the oddest ecosystems on earth.
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KAMPALA , Uganda -- She was 11 time zones away from Hollywood, but movie buff Marion E. Busingye could not wait to see whether "The Last King of Scotland" -- a rare and terrifying look at Uganda's bloody political history -- would win an Oscar.
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Keanu Reeves gets his moment on Hollywood Boulevard.
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Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman and his film production company on Friday unveiled plans to make a movie starring Freeman as former South African president and Nobel laureate Nelson Mandela.
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LOS ANGELES  - In April 2005, Angelina Jolie was in Namibia, pregnant for the first time and awaiting the birth of her child.
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Few sane people want to visit a storm-tossed Bering Sea, the sizzling Sahara Desert and Canada's Northwest Territories in January. Experiencing them from a comfortable chair in front of a flat-screen television, however, is all the rage.
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OSHIKANGO, Namibia  - The other side of the fence  looks no different from this, but in some respects it is a  world away.
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Steven Soderberghâs Oceanâs 12, which opens in cinemas in the United States tomorrow, was given nearly Oscar-calibre treatment at its premiere in Los Angeles.
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GABORONE, Botswana  - Botswana is pinning its Hollywood hopes on a new film based on the best-selling fiction series "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency."
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Hollywood's take on "conflict diamonds" has brought attention back in a big way to how gems associated with wealth and glamour have too often meant war and suffering in Africa.
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Life in Mojave Town, the windswept and deserted frontier trading post in the Californian desert where the new Virgin Galactic base is located, is far from space age.
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A sprawling new novel, cinematic in its scope, explores life in the underworld of India
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After long years of development and some tricky Hollywood dealmaking, a movie version of the best-selling novel "Memoirs of a Geisha" is headed into production.
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'Blood Diamond' tries to mix African politics and action.
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Planet Hollywood has stood as a cautionary tale about the perils of celebrity and hype. But its founder, Robert Earl, hopes a new casino will be the crown jewel of its resurrection.
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In April 2005, Angelina  Jolie was in Namibia, pregnant for the first time and awaiting  the birth of her child.