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Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has received a Cambodian passport after being made a citizen of the impoverished Southeast Asian country, an associate said Tuesday. The Hollywood star can use it when she visits the native land of her adopted son, Maddox, said Stephan Bognar, executive director of the Maddox Jolie project in Cambodia. The project, managed by San Francisco-based WildAid, promotes wildlife conservation and community development in a former Khmer Rouge guerrilla stronghold in northwestern Cambodia. Bognar said the actress was "ecstatic and thrilled" last month when he handed her the passport and an official copy of a royal decree...

Okay, FReepers, here's the deal. The Xena thing has been done, and quite well if I do say so myself. It's time to find something new, and I think I've found it . . . Lara Croft. I'm putting out a call to all FReepers who might a) know where to get what I'm looking for or b) be interested in a thread that will very likely be SBR fodder within 30 seconds of posting.

HONG KONG (AFP) - Chinese authorities have banned the second Tomb Raider blockbuster starring Oscar-winner Angelina Jolie after complaining that it portrays the country negatively, it was reported here. Andrew Cripps, president of United International Pictures, the movie's Asian distributor, told the South China Morning Post Friday that 'Lara Croft Tomb Raider -- The Cradle of Life' had failed to win approval from China's censors. "We are very disappointed but I cannot say we are surprised," Cripps was quoted as saying. "We have to abide by decisions of national censorship bodies." Cripps said China was the only country to ban...