| Searching for the Soviet Sherlock
The films are in Russian, with English subtitles, and reflecting their recent availability and relative rarity, no user reviews are to be found on the corresponding Amazon.com pages. The opportunity to re-package and release on North American DVD such titles as King of the Blackmailers, Mortal Fight and The Hound of the Baskervilles is tailor made for a company like The Criterion Collection, who may well be in the process of trying to track down the company now holding those aforementioned Lenfilm rights. But at this point, the DVDs are no easier to find this side of the pond than Maslennikov's 2006's autobiography The Baker Street in Petrogradskaya. Meanwhile, though Vitali Solomin, the actor who played Dr. Watson in the films, passed away in 2002, 72-year-old Livanov is still alive.
Train woes ease in snow-wary China
A young boy holds his father's hand as they wait to buy tickets at the railway station in Beijing Sunday Feb. 3, 2007. Millions of Chinese are attempting to return home to their families in time for Chinese New Year celebrations in the coming week, but many have been stranded after snow storms disrupted transport networks in the central and southern parts of the country. (AP Photo/Greg Baker) .
SFGate: Daily Dish
Angelina Jolie is being fast-tracked through the Vietnamese adoption system so she can adopt a young boy there in May, according to a local official. Vu Duc Long, director of the country's Ministry of Justice's International Adoption Department, has confirmed Jolie's application has been accelerated because she chose the child during a previous visit to Ho Chi Minh City. He says, "She might receive her adoptive child in three months, one month earlier than the normal time frame for an adoption. "He is between 4 and 5 and now stays at the Tam Binh orphanage." The actress filed papers through a U.S. adoption agency to take custody of the child three months ago. Jolie, her partner Brad Pitt and their family visited Vietnam in November in between the filming of "A Mighty Heart" in Pakistan.
Pedestrian hit by pick up truck
Seattle police are investigating a weekend traffic accident that left a pedestrian injured. The accident happened at about 11:30 a.m. Sunday near the intersection of 38th Avenue South and South Othello Street, spokesman Mark Jamieson said. The 71-year-old victim was hit by a Toyota pickup truck as he attempted to cross the street, Jamieson said. He was unconscious when Seattle fire medics arrived. His current condition was unavailable. .
Hodge attacks Salmond's Chessmen gambit
Scotland as we all know, was a barbarous nation that should have been easily conquered by the extremely civilised Nation to it's South.And of course any sort of artistic ability evaporates the further it gets from the wee triangle of Oxford Cambridge and London. .
Questions Remain on Fidel's Role
Now, government broadcasts make do with his recorded voice from past speeches, often in heavily nostalgic documentaries about his life and deeds. His bearded visage still hangs in offices, but is rare on the billboards that once pictured him in olive drab uniform above upbeat messages like "Everything's going well!" .
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