Hoffman's bludgeoning shoot-first style is contrasted with the longer-term strategy of Jordanian intelligence chief Hani (British actor Mark Strong), who advocates bribery as a more effective tool than torture in pursuing the terrorist leader Al-Saleem.

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Bavaria's interior ministry said it was considering stripping the late actor of an honorary chief police inspector title awarded to Tappert in 1980, German media reported.

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Joanna Coles, editor in chief of Cosmopolitan magazine, held an event at which Jesse Tyler Ferguson, an actor on "Modern Family, " attended.

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Hammersmith Grove, W6, is a tree-lined road of smart Victorian terraces which has counted actor Ralph Fiennes, BBC Today programme presenter John Humphrys and Downing Street chief of staff Jonathan Powell among its residents.

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Ryan is the second prominent US official, after Obama's chief counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan, to call for the US to accept Hizbullah as a legitimate actor in the region.

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