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Actors Ray Winstone (L) and Harrison Ford are shown in a scene from the new film 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull' in this undated publicity photograph. (David James/Paramount Pictures/Handout/Reuters)

Hollywood boys who just don't want to grow up

Thu May 15, 11:07 PM ET

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - When to slow down and retire? For most people in their 60s the decision is a no-brainer -- the sooner the better. But in the rare air of movie stardom, where careers are fueled by a mix of talent, ego, vanity and, sometimes, cosmetic surgery, it seems to be a far harder decision.

  • A man walks past a closed down store at the Revolucion Avenue in the border city of Tijuana May 13, 2008. A decade ago, economists hailed Tijuana as a place where cheap Mexican labor and U.S. financing could meet, attracting Asian firms eager to set up manufacturing plants to export to the United States. Now, that vision is slipping away, a victim of drug violence that has been exploding this side of the U.S.-Mexico border for the past three years. Picture taken May 13, 2008. To match feature MEXICO-DRUGS/TIJUANA (Stringer/Reuters)
    Drug war shutters businesses on Mexico border Thu May 15, 8:22 AM ET

    TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - A decade ago, economists hailed Tijuana as a place where cheap Mexican labor and U.S. financing could meet, attracting Asian firms eager to set up manufacturing plants to export to the United States.

  • Relatives of Jasbir Singh, 22, speak during their interview at Machhrauli village in the northern Indian state of Haryana May 13, 2008 after Jasbir and his partner Sunita Devi, 21, were killed by villagers in an 'honour killing' in Ballah village on May 9, 2008. (Vijay Mathur/Reuters)
    Indian village proud after double "honor killing" Thu May 15, 8:16 PM ET

    BALLA, India (Reuters) - Five armed men burst into the small room and courtyard at dawn, just as 21-year-old, 22-week pregnant, Sunita was drying her face on a towel.

  • New Zealand's coxless four Hamish Bond, Eric Murray, James Dallinger and Carl Meyer (L to R) practise at Lake Karapiro near Hamilton in this May 9, 2008 file photo. (Nigel Marple/Files/Reuters)
    Big results on small budget for New Zealand Thu May 15, 8:11 PM ET

    MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Driving along the tree-lined streets of the small New Zealand town of Cambridge and past multi-million-dollar stud farms, it is hard to imagine a less likely setting for a revolution in sports administration.

  • Hungarian skeet shooter Diana Igaly's (43) Olympic gold and bronze medals hang at a practice range in Budaors near Budapest on April 30, 2008. (Laszlo Balogh/Reuters)
    Shooter Igaly hopes to make big noise at Games Thu May 15, 8:09 PM ET

    BUDAORS, Hungary (Reuters) - Diana Igaly's determination to defend her Olympic skeet shooting title nearly landed her in police custody.

  • An Afghan policeman carries his weapon in Patrol Base Wilson in the Zhari district after finishing basic police training April 24, 2008 file photo. Around 60,000 Afghan police are now out on the streets, a crucial element in trying to bring security to remote corners of the country, even if the number is small for a nation of Afghanistan's size, with a population of an estimated 28 million. (Goran Tomasevic/Files/Reuters)
    Afghan police training: "Don't shoot," then eat Wed May 14, 8:16 PM ET

    GHULAM ALI, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Sergeant Chris Padron, a thick-set former cop from Texas turned police trainer in Afghanistan, fixed the group of earnest Afghan policemen with a hard stare and delivered his next question.

  • Children walk at Fatih College in Istanbul April 16, 2008. The 640-pupil school is run by followers of Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish Muslim preacher who advocates moderate Islam rooted in modern life, and whose teachings have inspired millions of Turks to forge a powerful socio-religious community active in publishing, charity and above all education. The Gulen movement has built up a network of some 800 schools around the world, teaching a full curriculum but with a strong focus on science and technology, and encouraging pupils to aim high. (Osman Orsal/Reuters)
    Turkish Islamic preacher - threat or benefactor? Tue May 13, 8:15 PM ET

    ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Nine-year-old Burak says his favorite subject is maths, he loves studying and writing in English, and when he grows up he wants to be a policeman.

  • Former Romanian prime minister Adrian Nastase addresses the media after exiting a courtroom in Bucharest in this file picture taken June 25, 2007. (Mihai Barbu/Reuters)
    In Romania, high-level corruption resists reform Tue May 13, 8:17 PM ET

    BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Chocolate and candy are among the things a Romanian football club owner said he wanted his representatives to buy with 1.7 million euros, found in a car near a restaurant where they were watching a match.

  • Blanka Vlasic from Croatia clears the bar to win the women's high jump event at the Qatar Super Grand Prix in Doha in this May 9, 2008 file photo. The Croatian world champion, who had the year's best jump of 2.03 metres last Friday, has one of athletics' oldest world records in her sights at every meeting she competes in. (Mohammad Youssef/Reuters)
    Vlasic aims high at every athletics meeting Tue May 13, 8:26 PM ET

    ZURICH (Reuters) - Never mind the Olympics, Blanka Vlasic wants to put on a world-beating performance every time she approaches the high jump bar.

  • A giant soccer ball is pictured on Lake Leman in Geneva May 13, 2008. (Denis Balibouse/Reuters)
    Euro 2008 will not save Swiss economic slowdown Tue May 13, 9:40 PM ET

    ZURICH (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of soccer fans will spend millions of francs on beer, bratwurst and beds at Euro 2008 next month.

  • Australia's Leisel Jones poses with her gold medal after women's 100m breaststroke final during the International Swim Meet 2007 in Narashino, east of Tokyo, in this August 21, 2007 file photo. Armed with a new-found maturity and self-belief, Jones is hoping it will be third time lucky when she stands up on the blocks at the Beijing Olympics. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Files/Reuters)
    Leisel Jones hopes for third time lucky in pool Tue May 13, 8:39 PM ET

    SYDNEY (Reuters) - Armed with a new-found maturity and self-belief, Australia's Leisel Jones is hoping it will be third time lucky when she stands up on the blocks at the Beijing Olympics.

  • Cyclists ride in Taipei April 9, 2008. Giant Manufacturing, once an obscure contractor, now adds a new bike factory somewhere in the world every few years while working feverishly at its Taiwan base to meet rising demand for the body-building, gas-saving vehicles. Rising petrol prices, growing awareness of environmental issues and the popularity of cycling as a recreation sport has spurred a surge in demand for bicycles around the world and Taiwan, home of some of the world's biggest bike manufacturers, is reaping the profits. (Pichi Chuang/Reuters)
    Bicycle-makers ride high on surging oil prices Tue May 13, 8:19 PM ET

    TAIPEI (Reuters) - The row of gleaming bicycles being assembled on the factory floor of Giant Manufacturing, one of the world's biggest bicycle-makers, will soon hit streets from Seattle to Sydney, Amsterdam and even Beijing.

  • Joe Lucci, Deputy Commissioner in the Office of the Commissioner of Probation in the state of Massachusetts, points to the sample tracking data from a GPS ankle transmitter in Boston, Massachusetts May 5, 2008. Lucci oversees the Electronic Monitoring Program which uses GPS bracelets to track the movements of parolees, including sex offenders. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)
    GPS grows as a crime-fighting tool in U.S Wed May 14, 10:31 AM ET

    BOSTON (Reuters) - It was just after 10 p.m. when William Cotter, wearing a belt full of ammunition, burst into the home of his estranged wife, Dorothy, shooting her in the back with a sawed-off shot gun before taking his own life.

  • Volunteers display cakes made from potatoes at a stall during a Potato Campaign in Dhaka, May 8, 2008. (Rafiqur Rahman./Reuters)
    Bangladeshis told "eat potatoes" as rice prices soar Tue May 13, 8:22 AM ET

    DHAKA (Reuters) - Potatoes are not traditionally high on the menu for Bangladesh's 140 million people, but a surge in rice and wheat prices has prompted the government to popularize the humble spud as a substitute food.

  • India's Dinesh Patel (L) and Rinku Singh (2nd L), winners of a nationwide baseball pitching contest, watch as U.S. ambassador to India David C. Mulford (R) speaks after handing them visas in New Delhi May 2, 2008. The two Indian teenagers are chasing an American dream as baseball professionals and their promoters hope they can stir up interest in the game in their cricket-mad homeland. Singh and fellow javelin thrower Patel began a year-long training stint in Los Angeles last week after winning an India-wide pitching contest, 'The Million-Dollar Arm'. Picture taken May 2, 2008. (U.S. Embassy/Handout/Reuters)
    Indian teenagers chase American baseball dream Tue May 13, 4:45 AM ET

    NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Two Indian teenagers are chasing an American dream as baseball professionals and their promoters hope they can stir up interest in the game in their cricket-mad homeland.