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Friday
July 21, 2000
Maybe men would like several wives -- review
Tehran (Jam-e Jam) -- The reviewer of a film shown on Iranian TV about
polygamy says the husband's hypocritical love for his first wife and the
OTHER woman is bad wnough, but Fatemeh Motamed-Arya's acting is also weak
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Actor: Busy but lonely
Tehran (Jam-e Jam) -- Farrokh-Leqa Houshmand, who's in her late sevcenties,
is a busy actor. She is currently acting in three different TV series.
But she says when she goes home, nobody visits her. "I want to go
to an old people's home." >>>
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Cousteau on Iranian TV
Tehran (Jam-e Jam) -- A 23-episode series of Jacque Cousteau's marine
adventures is just one of several programs being dubbed in Persian for
Iranian TV >>>
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* Maybe men would like several wives
-- review
* Actor: Busy but lonely
* Cousteau on Iranian TV
* Golshiri's wish comes true -- after death
* Top of the music charts
* TV: Stop bad mouthing us
* Karamati: I'm back
* Mammamia!
* 500 new books in a week
* Pari Saberi's play in Rome
* Woman violinist shines in Iravan
* Film: Cultural invasion?
* 21 Years On, Iran Still Gaga Over Googoosh
* 100th birthday bash
* Top current movies
* Hegmataneh: More digging
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Thursday
July 20, 2000
Golshiri's wish comes true -- after death
Tehran (Goonagoon) -- Authorities have finally allowed the reprinting
of Houshang Golshiri's masterpiece, the novel "Shazdeh Ehtejab"
-- more than a month after his death >>>
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Top of the music charts
Tehran (Goonagoon) -- Hossein Zaman's new album "Qesseh-ye shab"
is in first place and Farman Fathalian's "Moqim" -- a "superficial
mix of pop and Indian music" -- is in the number 2 spot >>>
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TV: Stop bad mouthing us
Tehran (Bahar) -- Iranian state TV responds to accusations by the deputy
culture minister that it is not cooperating promote Iranian movies >>> FULL
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Wednesday
July 19, 2000
Karamati: I'm back
Tehran (Bahar) -- He made "Morghaan vahshi" 11 years ago and
left the movie business. But Masoud Karamati says he intends to make a
come back >>>
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Mammamia!
Tehran (Bahar) -- Iranians singing Italian folk songs in Tehran? "Napolitan"
songs to be exact. Check out some of the names >>>
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500 new books in a week
Tehran (Bahar) -- The Culture Ministry has issued permits for some 500
new books in the past week. Only 89 of them are translations, about three
hundred are first editions. The biggest topic? Religion >>>
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Tuesday
July 18, 2000
Pari Saberi's play in Rome
Tehran (Bahar) -- For three nights Pari Saberi will direct a play at
Rome's coliseum. The play is part of a special event that will also include
performances from Greek and Italian artists
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Woman violinist shines in Iravan
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- Mahsa Qassemi is the first Iranian woman violinist
to graduate from a music school in the Armenian capital (she completed
her studies with honors in four years, instead of the usual six). Her performance
in Iravan was a big success >>>
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Film: Cultural invasion?
Tehran (Bahar) -- Iranian state TV treats Iranian cinema as if it were
part of the Western cultural invasion, deputy culture minister Seyfollah
Dad said >>>
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Monday
July 17, 2000
21 Years On, Iran Still Gaga Over Pop Diva Googoosh
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Word that Iran's pop diva Googoosh will break 21
years of silence to perform abroad this month has electrified her legions
of home-grown fans, many too young to know anything but her ubiquitous
boot-leg recordings. For two decades the former pop sensation has hovered
-- out of sight but not out of mind -- over the cultural landscape of urban
Iran.
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100th birthday bash
Tehran (Bahar) -- Several organizations are cooperating to organize
celebratations marking 100 years of Iranian cinema. The three-day event
will be in mid August >>>
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Top current movies
Tehran (Bahar) -- "Mumiyaee 3" is in first place among current
movies with the highest ticket sales. Here are the top films and their
ticket sales >>>
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Hegmataneh: More digging
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- The 17th excavation season at Hegmataneh, one
of Iran's most important archaeological sites near Hamadan has begun. Experts
have found the remains of one of the "oldest and most exceptional"
cities in the world >>>
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