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My Uncle, Napoleon

Indian superstar Aishwarya Rai barely registered a blimp in casting directors’ books after starring in Gurinder Chadha’s Bride and Prejudice last year. Mighty Bollywood has

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Jahanshah Javid

Killer mom

Shohreh Aghdashloo will win an Emmy nomination for her chilling performance as Dina Araz, a terrorist mother in the hit Fox series 24. She was

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House of S*** and F***

Having read the original book and remembering how angry it made me then, I refused to see THSF in theatres. I know what you are

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Profile: Gita Saedi

For some strange reason Iranian artists have gravitated toward film, showing an impressive and uncanny knack for this relatively foreign medium. It seems odd that

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Blooming

“Mystic Iran, The Unseen World” A film by Aryana Farshad Beverly Hills, Ca. Narrated by Shohreh Aghdashloo The first time I met Aryana Farshad and

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Good and bad

I also saw House of Sand and Fog but my point of view has two major differences with Zohreh Ghahremani's [House of Shohreh]. Shohreh Aghdashloo

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Parvin Ansary

The Last Colony

I have known Professor Parvin Ansary since I was in 6th grade in Rome all the way back to 1961 when I was 11 years

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In a phat sack

I am writing myself an obituary. Death invariably follows me whereever I go, so I figure I need to get proactive about it. It is

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Hate this movie

I was conducting a Q. & A., and this was the first response. A little startled, I dismissed the question and moved on to another

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