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A History of Modern TunisiaLeila Ben Ali's words of "encouragement" to her husband, Zine al-Abidine as he refused to board the plane to spirit him out of Tunisia and to Saudi Arabia were reported as: "Get on imbecile. All my life I've had to put up with your screw ups."
An unnamed senior air force official recounted the 74-year old ex-president's feeble attempt to disobey Lady Macbeth of Carthage, as his wife has been dubbed, in the French weekly, Nouvel Observateur.
As revolt rumbled in the capital, Mr Ben Ali, who was ousted after 23 years of iron rule on January 14, stood on the tarmac in Tunis airport with a small briefcase wringing his hands, and saying: "Leave me, I don't want to go, I want to die here for my country."


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Gary Moore: Definitive Montreux Collection (Three Discs With CD)Gary Moore’s funeral set for Brighton » Inside Ireland: "The body of former Thin Lizzy guitarist Gary Moore will be flown from Spain to Britain today.

The lunchtime flight from Malaga to London will be accompanied by Moore’s girlfriend and his brother Cliff."


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Ok! First Celebrity NewsCelebs Kick Off NYC Fashion Week at Glamorous amfAR Gala - OK! Magazine - The First for Celebrity News: "Celebrating Fashion Week in NYC isn’t hard to do, but it’s great that celebs like Marc Mezvinsky and Chelsea Clinton, Richard Gere and Iman can also bring attention to a great organization! The stars stepped out last night in the Big Apple to attend the amfAR New York Gala, which kicked off Fall 2011 Fashion Week, at Cipriani Wall Street."


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True Grit (Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy)'True Grit' stars minded manners with teenage actress < German news | Expatica Germany: "Fourteen-year-old Oscar nominee Hailee Steinfeld kept her 'True Grit' co-stars on a tight leash on set, actor Jeff Bridges said at the opening of the Berlin film festival Thursday.
Bridges, who is also nominated for his role in the Western by director Joel and Ethan Coen, said he and fellow actors Matt Damon and Josh Brolin had to mind their manners around Steinfeld.
'She kept us all in line,' he told reporters. 'She had a cursing cup and if any of us used the s-word, I think it was five bucks.
'I ran a tab so I still owe her quite a bit of money,' joked Bridges, who picked up his first Academy Award last year for his role in 'Crazy Heart'.
'She made much more money from that jar than she did from the movie,' Brolin quipped."


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Hollywood ReporterHow the Egypt Crisis Has Shut Down Show Business - The Hollywood Reporter: "The political crisis in Egypt has had a devastating impact on the entertainment industry in the country that has been called the 'Hollywood of the Middle East.'

'Everything is shut down; life is at a standstill,' producer Marianne Khoury, who runs MISR International Films (September 11, El Medina) with her brother Gabriel, told The Hollywood Reporter. 'People are glued to their TVs.'
Khoury supports the protesters and, with her company's work shut down, decided recently to help in whatever way she could. She took a carload of blankets to support the anti-Murbarak demonstrators, but her car was attacked by 'thugs paid by the government,' she said.
'It was an extremely traumatic experience,' Khoury added. 'People in the street saw the car full of blankets and guessed who they were for. The whole street attacked us with unbelievable violence and people started banging on the windows.'
She was pulled from her car by her hair before being rescued at the last second. 'Finally,' a shaken Khoury recalled, 'I was taken in a truck to an army checkpoint and sent home.'"

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