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Clearly, he can do more. He proved it earlier this year in “Into the Wild.” But here he’s once again coasting on his well-worn persona, surrounded by esteemed, award-winning actors who are vastly overqualified and mostly look bored. (It’s staggering when you look at the caliber of the cast. Kathy Bates has an Oscar. So does Rachel Weisz. Heck, Kevin Spacey has two. Paul Giamatti’s been nominated; so has Miranda Richardson, twice.) The comedy from director David Dobkin (who also directed Vaughn in “Wedding Crashers”) veers awkwardly from shrill, slapsticky physical humor to diabolical meanness (courtesy of Spacey as an efficiency expert) to reheated, snuggly sentiments about the importance of love and family. Vaughn stars as the bitter Fred Claus, who’s spent a lifetime seething in the shadow of his loving, generous younger brother, Nicholas (Giamatti), better known as Santa. Mom (Bates) always liked Nick better. But in a peculiar plot point from screenwriter Dan Fogelman (with Jessie Nelson getting a story-by credit) everyone related to Nick froze in time when he gained his sainthood. This detail is mentioned in passing at the beginning and never addressed again. “Lions For Lambs” Treads Softly Desperate for cash to get out of jail and 포커 규칙 start his own gambling venture — a pursuit that you know he’ll abandon by the film’s end — Fred agrees to schlep to the North...

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“As an acrobat, I use the movement of my body to create a breathtaking impression on the audience, but film actresses have to use their faces to express all their feelings to the audience, and this hasn’t been easy work for me,” she said during filming in June 2010

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(AP) SEOUL, South Korea – It’s a classic tale of a small-town girl who follows her dreams to the big city. But in this case, the girl is a North Korean coal miner, the big city is Pyongyang and her dream is to become a high-flying trapeze artist. “Comrade Kim Goes Flying,” a collaboration between a North Korean director and two European filmmakers, makes its world premiere Saturday at the Toronto International Film Festival before it heads to Pyongyang later this month for its North Korean debut. The film was shot on location with an all-Korean cast, but it avoids overtly political themes and isn’t what foreign audiences might expect to see from North Korea: a feel-good romantic comedy about a plucky young woman who grabs her chance to run off to the circus, only to find her wings clipped by the show’s handsome but arrogant superstar. He seems determined to make sure she doesn’t succeed – until he falls in love with her. Watch: A glimpse at the real North KoreaU.S. scolds North Korea for unauthorized Disney show British co-director Nicholas Bonner called the story an “unexpected fairytale.” “It’s one purely about a girl going about her dream” Bonner told The Associated Press in an interview in Pyongyang. “She’s an individual and rather cheeky character with this dream of hers to fly.” Bonner has been traveling to Pyongyang...

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He was a freedom fighter in his native Algeria, drifted into diplomacy after his country’s independence from France in 1962, became undersecretary-general of the Arab League from 1984-1991, and returned to Algeria as foreign minister from 1991-1993. In 1994, Brahimi took his diplomatic skills to the United Nations, taking on key assignments in South Africa, Haiti, Afghanistan during and after the Taliban rule, and Iraq after Saddam Hussein’s ouster. He chaired a panel that examined U.N. failures in Rwanda’s genocide and the massacre at Srebrenica during the Bosnian war, and recommended a major overhaul of U.N. peacemaking efforts and peacekeeping operations. Reflecting on his 20 years spent trying to make peace, Brahimi acknowledged in a speech in 2010 that conflicts are terrible and difficult and the cause or the result of problems that need to be solved. Nonetheless, he added, “I still believe very, very strongly that there is no conflict that cannot be solved.” “We, people, make these problems,” Brahimi told the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship in Oxford, England. “And we should be able to solve them. We can solve them.” Brahimi said he also learned that in dealing with conflicts “obviously you see a lot of wickedness, a lot of cruelty, a lot of injustice, but you also come across a lot of kindness, a lot of courage, and a lot of forgiveness, and that makes up for it.” He recalled that when former U.S. Senator George Mitchell accepted the job as President Barack Obama’s special envoy to the Middle East in 2009, Mitchell said, “you live 800 days of frustration for one day of satisfaction.” During his years at the Arab League, Brahimi served as the organization’s special envoy trying to mediate an end to Lebanon’s civil war. There were several failed attempts to end the fighting, he said, but finally on Sept. 24, 1989, “we clinched a cease-fire” that looked like it would hold — and it did, leading to the Taif agreement that ended the 15-year conflict. “These kinds of satisfactions are the things that one works for,” Brahimi said. Brahimi officially retired in 2005, though he remains active as a lecturer and participant in several non-profit organizations focusing on global affairs. He has taken on special assignments including heading a U.N. panel that investigated the December 2007 bombing of U.N. headquarters in Algiers. He is also a member of The Elders, the international group of prominent statesmen founded by Nelson Mandela that has been speaking out on major issues. Now 78, the tall, grey-haired diplomat will be stepping into the job held by Annan, a close friend who as U.N. secretary-general sent him to Afghanistan twice, then to Iraq, and then brought him to New York as a special adviser and undersecretary-general in 2004-2005. Brahimi knows the Mideast and its key players well and speaks Arabic, French and English fluently. His years spent trying to end Lebanon’s civil war put him in close contact with Syria, which for years maintained a strong military presence in Lebanon even though the Taif agreement called for an eventual withdrawal of Syrian forces. Brahimi was also in a key Arab League position when Syria made its dramatic decision in 1990 to participate in the U.S.-led coalition that routed Saddam Hussein’s forces from Kuwait in the first Gulf War. Shehadi, of the Chatham House think tank, said Brahimi’s past dealings with the ruling Assad family in Syria in the 1980s means “they won’t be able to fool him” as they did others with “games” to try to gain time and make the regime look good. Shehadi said a diplomatic solution must come from the West, not an internal Syrian dialogue that is part of Annan’s six-point peace plan, “and the best possible scenario would be an international agreement which would involve the Russians, who would step in and tell Assad clearly that the game is over.” Brahimi gave some clues on how he might try to end the intensifying Syria conflict in the 2010 speech, in which he stressed the importance of trying to find common ground between the parties — and “there is always a little bit of common ground, even if it’s a few inches” — and then looking for larger areas of agreement that can lead to an end of the conflict. In Afghanistan, he played a major role in installing a new government following the rout of the Taliban by U.S.-led forces in 2001. He co-chaired the first U.N.-sponsored meeting of world leaders and Afghan groups in Bonn, Germany that agreed on a blueprint for a political transition — a possible model for Syria if Bashar Assad falls from power. In Iraq, he also helped choose an interim government in 2004. Brahimi has stressed repeatedly that every conflict is different. Last week, he gave another clue about what needs to be done in Syria. The Elders issued a statement urging all parties in Syria, and all those in the international community who can influence the outcome of the crisis, to work together toward a Syrian-led solution to end the bloodshed “and move the country away from the abyss.” Brahimi added his own statement calling on Syrians to come together “in the quest of a new formula” so they can live together peacefully without fear or reprisals. And he urged world and regional leaders to end their divisions and unite to ensure that a political transition can take place as soon as possible. He reiterated in an interview with The Associated Press in Paris on Friday that “the first challenge is to see the killing stop.” Asked whether military intervention is on the horizon, he said, “I hope not.” “I am a mediator,” Brahimi stressed. “Speaking of the military option is already recognizing failure.”

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