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"John Malkovich’s son was arrested at a violent Black Lives Matter rally in Portland, Oregon..." "He was busted on charges of interfering with a peace officer, and second-degree disorderly conduct, according to a release by the Portland Police Bureau." "His low-level charges fall into the category that Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt said his office will not even prosecute."

The actor John Malkovich says he is being forced to leave his much-loved farmhouse in the south of France because of a tax dispute with the French government. Malkovich, 49, claims that the French government is demanding that he pays 65 per cent of his income to the state - in spite of the fact that he has been paying taxes to America. "They interpret things one way, I interpret them another," he told an American newspaper last week. "French tax officials expect me to pay the full 65 per cent in France for several years. They want me to...

John Malkovich knows the French better than most Americans, having lived in Aix-en-Provence for years with his wife, Nicoletta Peyran, and their two children. But as much as he loves his adopted land, he thinks the French have forfeited their right to suggest what the new Iraq should look like. "Why should America listen to what France now has to say?" Malkovich asked when we spoke to him the other day. The actor is the first to admit that President Bush could have handled the diplomatic end better. At the same time, he believes President Jacques Chirac's opposition to the...

YOU'VE got to hand it to Saddam. In one brisk, neat letter to Kofi Annan, he pulled the rug from right under George Bush's feet. There was the American president last week, playing the role of multilateralist, warning the world that Iraq had one last chance through the UN to avoid Armageddon. "If the Iraqi regime wishes peace," he told us all in the General Assembly, "it will immediately and unconditionally forswear, disclose and remove or destroy all weapons of mass destruction, long range missiles and all related material." And that, of course, is the point. Saddam would do everything...