– There’s a new face among the GIs in Clint Eastwood’s World War II drama “Flags of Our Fathers”: Scott Reeves, the director’s youngest son. Reeves, 20, makes his big-screen debut as a Marine in one scene of “Flags,” due in theaters Oct. 20. “Flags,” which recounts the story of six Americans who raised the flag on Iwo Jima, is “the culmination of everything, of all his work combined coming to this,” Reeves said of his dad at the premiere in L.A. on Monday. “It’s just one of the best things to work on–ever.”
– Indian writer Kiran Desai won Britain’s prestigious Man Booker Prize on Tuesday for “The Inheritance of Loss,” a cross-continental saga that moves from the Himalayas to New York City. Desai, daughter of novelist and three-time Booker Prize nominee Anita Desai, had been one of the favorites for the $93,000 prize. “To my mother, I owe a debt so profound and so great that this book feels as much hers as it does mine,” Desai said as she accepted her award in London. “It was written in her company and in her witness and in her kindness.” Judges deliberated for two hours before making their decision, hailing Desai’s work as “a magnificent novel of humane breadth and wisdom, comic tenderness and powerful political acuteness.”
– Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have made a $100,000 donation to the Daniel Pearl Foundation in memory of the American journalist who was kidnapped and eventually killed in Pakistan in February 2002, People.com reports. The gift, made through the recently formed Jolie-Pitt Foundation, was presented on Tuesday, which would have been the late Wall Street Journal reporter’s 43rd birthday. The pair are currently in India filming a movie about Pearl.
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The Personals page was compiled by Cheryl Bowles from Tribune news services and staff reports.
