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Arts & Culture
July 17-21, 2000 / Tir 27-31, 1379

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Friday
July 21, 2000

Maybe men would like several wives -- review

Tehran (Jam-e Jam) -- The reviewer of a film shown on Iranian TV about polygamy says the husband's hypocritical love for his first wife and the OTHER woman is bad wnough, but Fatemeh Motamed-Arya's acting is also weak >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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Actor: Busy but lonely

Tehran (Jam-e Jam) -- Farrokh-Leqa Houshmand, who's in her late sevcenties, is a busy actor. She is currently acting in three different TV series. But she says when she goes home, nobody visits her. "I want to go to an old people's home." >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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Cousteau on Iranian TV

Tehran (Jam-e Jam) -- A 23-episode series of Jacque Cousteau's marine adventures is just one of several programs being dubbed in Persian for Iranian TV >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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* Maybe men would like several wives -- review
* Actor: Busy but lonely
* Cousteau on Iranian TV
* Golshiri's wish comes true -- after death
* Top of the music charts
* TV: Stop bad mouthing us
* Karamati: I'm back
* Mammamia!
* 500 new books in a week
* Pari Saberi's play in Rome
* Woman violinist shines in Iravan
* Film: Cultural invasion?
* 21 Years On, Iran Still Gaga Over Googoosh
* 100th birthday bash
* Top current movies
* Hegmataneh: More digging

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Thursday
July 20, 2000

Golshiri's wish comes true -- after death

Tehran (Goonagoon) -- Authorities have finally allowed the reprinting of Houshang Golshiri's masterpiece, the novel "Shazdeh Ehtejab" -- more than a month after his death >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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Top of the music charts

Tehran (Goonagoon) -- Hossein Zaman's new album "Qesseh-ye shab" is in first place and Farman Fathalian's "Moqim" -- a "superficial mix of pop and Indian music" -- is in the number 2 spot >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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TV: Stop bad mouthing us

Tehran (Bahar) -- Iranian state TV responds to accusations by the deputy culture minister that it is not cooperating promote Iranian movies >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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Wednesday
July 19, 2000

Karamati: I'm back

Tehran (Bahar) -- He made "Morghaan vahshi" 11 years ago and left the movie business. But Masoud Karamati says he intends to make a come back >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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Mammamia!

Tehran (Bahar) -- Iranians singing Italian folk songs in Tehran? "Napolitan" songs to be exact. Check out some of the names >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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500 new books in a week

Tehran (Bahar) -- The Culture Ministry has issued permits for some 500 new books in the past week. Only 89 of them are translations, about three hundred are first editions. The biggest topic? Religion >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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Tuesday
July 18, 2000

Pari Saberi's play in Rome

Tehran (Bahar) -- For three nights Pari Saberi will direct a play at Rome's coliseum. The play is part of a special event that will also include performances from Greek and Italian artists >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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Woman violinist shines in Iravan

Tehran (Hamshahri) -- Mahsa Qassemi is the first Iranian woman violinist to graduate from a music school in the Armenian capital (she completed her studies with honors in four years, instead of the usual six). Her performance in Iravan was a big success >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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Film: Cultural invasion?

Tehran (Bahar) -- Iranian state TV treats Iranian cinema as if it were part of the Western cultural invasion, deputy culture minister Seyfollah Dad said >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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Monday
July 17, 2000

21 Years On, Iran Still Gaga Over Pop Diva Googoosh

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Word that Iran's pop diva Googoosh will break 21 years of silence to perform abroad this month has electrified her legions of home-grown fans, many too young to know anything but her ubiquitous boot-leg recordings. For two decades the former pop sensation has hovered -- out of sight but not out of mind -- over the cultural landscape of urban Iran.
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100th birthday bash

Tehran (Bahar) -- Several organizations are cooperating to organize celebratations marking 100 years of Iranian cinema. The three-day event will be in mid August >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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Top current movies

Tehran (Bahar) -- "Mumiyaee 3" is in first place among current movies with the highest ticket sales. Here are the top films and their ticket sales >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIA

Hegmataneh: More digging

Tehran (Hamshahri) -- The 17th excavation season at Hegmataneh, one of Iran's most important archaeological sites near Hamadan has begun. Experts have found the remains of one of the "oldest and most exceptional" cities in the world >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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 Artworks

Monday

* Goudarzi, Mostafa: Boraq

Tuesday

* Hosseini, Mehdi: Untitled

Wednesday

* Katouzian, Kamran:
Untitled

Thursday

* Sani-ol-Molk, Abolhassan Khan:
Young prince

Friday

* Shabahangi, Jalal: Untitled

 Art links

* Museum of Contemporary Iranian Artists

* Golestan gallery (Tehran)

* Elaheh Gallery (Tehran)

* Gallery Ovissi
(San Francisco)

 


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