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Michelle Rodriguez is fast, furious and back! After stretches in prison and gossip about 'what I do with my vagina', she tells Amy Raphael how she's leaving the Cleopatra myth for dustDown the hallway, past dozens of press officers, agents and personal assistants shouting instructions into walkie talkies and into a silent, stuffy suite; I expect some kind of entourage, but there's Michelle Rodriguez on her own, bent over the coffee table, writing slowly and carefully. She looks up, shakes hands and offers a quick but perfect smile. 'I'm ordering a baby artichoke salad. It's going to be sooooo good, man. I'm allergic to just about everything under the sun but, you know, I don't eat junk food so I'll be all right.'Stripped down to a white vest, skinny grey jeans and sleek brown-leather boots, Rodriguez is holding court on an old-fashioned chair in a chintzy suite at the Dorchester hotel. She is a slip of a woman, but somehow fills the space by singing, shouting and gesticulating wildly.

Simon Cowell will return as main judge alongside Piers Morgan and Amanda HoldenIts mixture of dancing dogs, amateur opera singers and good old-fashioned family entertainment propelled ITV1's variety show Britain's Got Talent to the top of the ratings last year. Now ITV hopes its third series tonight will provide a much-needed ratings boost.Simon Cowell, the svengali turned reality TV show millionaire, will again return as the main judge alongside former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan and actor Amanda Holden. The trio have the power to shatter dreams or create megastars. The winner of the first series, mobile phone salesman Paul Potts, has become an opera sensation, his debut album selling 3.5m copies. The winner of last year's show, street dancer George Sampson, 15, has since had a No1 DVD and a sell-out West End show. Cowell, who also created the format and rakes in millions of pounds from its worldwide sales, said this year's series would have added resonance with a public besiege

Young man, there's no need to feel down! John Patterson suggests you get in touch with your feminine side and embrace the bromantic comedyFor the last 40 years, since the cresting of first-wave feminism of the Gloria Steinem variety, progressive women have been espousing the merits of sisterhood, taking care of one another and helping their boss-spurned peers upwards on the long high-heeled march through the institutions. Glass ceilings have been shattered; grab-ass all-male cultures have been neutered; women have bossed companies and countries; topped the TV ratings (Oprah) and bestseller lists (JK Rowling), doing it all with a sense of sisterly pride and togetherness. It's been wonderful to live through it.But what about the boyz? Some feminists back in that era believed that all men needed to do to become fully self-actualised human beings was explore their softer sides, forget their cock-centric competitiveness, and everything would be just fine. Having had their revolution in cons

Simon Cowell will return as main judge alongside Piers Morgan and Amanda HoldenIts mixture of dancing dogs, amateur opera singers and good old-fashioned family entertainment propelled ITV1's variety show Britain's Got Talent to the top of the ratings last year. Now ITV hopes its third series tonight will provide a much-needed ratings boost.Simon Cowell, the svengali turned reality TV show millionaire, will again return as the main judge alongside former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan and actor Amanda Holden. The trio have the power to shatter dreams or create megastars. The winner of the first series, mobile phone salesman Paul Potts, has become an opera sensation, his debut album selling 3.5m copies. The winner of last year's show, street dancer George Sampson, 15, has since had a No1 DVD and a sell-out West End show. Cowell, who also created the format and rakes in millions of pounds from its worldwide sales, said this year's series would have added resonance with a public besiege

Arthur Phillips turns the notion of the artistic muse on its head in this novel about a young singer-songwriter and the older man who actively, obsessively inspires her.

Bollywood?s feminine gazeThe Statesman, IndiaMore than women adopting a male gaze, men in Bollywood are increasingly taking a feminine point of view. They have done away with rape scenes, needlessly drenching the heroine under a waterfall, the strip tease and cabarets, rain dances... the list ...

The hero of Paulette Jiles's elegiac novel of the Old West is a freed slave.

Salman had campaigned for congress party in Mumbai but he was also present with Vinod Khanna at Gurdaspur and when he was asked about getting into opposition party campaign,he said a oeit is the man appearing in elections for whom I m campaigning and he is my close friend and a good politician.a Khanna has won twice from Gurdaspur and is known for ...

Redmond O'Neal, the son of Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal, will remain in police custody without bail, a judge ordered on Friday.The 24-year-old's bail was canceled after he admitted in an L.A. courtroom that he broke the probation terms for a past drug conviction, says the Associated Press. A sentencing hearing will be held next week. Meanwhile, Redmond has been charged with a felony count of bringing drugs onto jail property. He was arrested last Sunday.

Meryl Streep as a suspicious nun, a collection of saucy films from the early 1930s and an Italian film about a crooked Nazi collaborator ...