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When Kate Winslet won the lead actress Oscar for “The Reader” in 2009, she thanked 19 people by name along with many others in general. She did not mention Harvey Weinstein, whose company financed and distributed the movie. “That was deliberate. That was absolutely deliberate,” Winslet told The Times in an interview Saturday. “I remember being told. �?Make sure you thank Harvey if you win.’ And I remember turning around and saying, �?No I won’t. No I won’t.’ And it was nothing to do with not being grateful. If people aren’t well-behaved, why would I thank him?” “The fact that I’m never going to have to deal with Harvey Weinstein again as long as I live is one of the best things that’s ever happened

Given a pen, ink, paper and envelopes, Mata Hari was allowed to write two letters, according to an account by journalist Henry G. Wales, a correspondent for the International News Service. It was just past 5:30 a.m. when she faced her firing squad: 12 French officers with their rifles at ease. For the past 100 years, Mata Hari has been revered as the ultimate femme fatale - the seductive, glamorous exotic dancer who spied for the Germans during World War I and caused the deaths of thousands of Allied soldiers. Earlier this year, trial archives kept confidential by the French were released to the public. And a cache of Mata Hari’s personal and family letters were recently published. Taken together, the documents recast the Great War’s most notorious spy as a mother who left an abusive marriage, and as a scapegoat for war-torn France looking to distract from heavy casualties on the front lines.

They say the customer is always right. However, in the case of a Florida woman who tossed hot nacho cheese at a 7-Eleven clerk, Melbourne police couldn’t disagree more. It was around 1:50 a.m. Thursday when Stephanie L. Hicks, 31,walked into a 7-Eleven store in Melbourne to buy a sandwich and a cup of nacho cheese, the Palm Bay Daily reported. The cashier told Hicks not to open the cheese dispenser, but the hungry woman ignored her request. Hicks proceeded to open it anyway and went up to pay for her items, only to be denied service by the employee. That’s when Hicks launched the sandwich and hot nacho cheese across the counter at the clerk. As the food traveled through the air, Hicks yelled: