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"I'm never going to be entirely happy with a performance."

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"For a man, it’s a pain that most of us will never get near."

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While us unworthy regular people do such silly things as scrape together cash for our monthly rents (or trick their friends into doing so) and otherwise teeter towards homelessness, even the most unfortunate celebrities don't have to consider such a cruel fate. This isn't to say that when the housing market went tits-up, the sun continued shining over celebrity enclaves. Because, as we learn after the break -- for every posh manse, there's a senseless eviction. And of course, heated floors.

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Director Danny Boyle spills on shooting in Mumbai

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The 'Slumdog' startlet's Blackbook interview.

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Those who've had a chance to see Slumdog Millionaire must have been wtf'ing all over the place after it was just inexplicably slapped with an R rating by the MPAA. The movie, which won the audience award at TIFF, is a whimiscal, if at times disturbing, modern fairy tale set mostly in the tidal wave of humanity that is the slums of Mumbai, India. To be sure, there's some disturbing imagery spattered throughout the movie, but at heart it's a fairly innocent fable of love and destiny, propelled forward by it's protagonist appearing on the Indian version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? And yet, the Joker slamming someone's neck into a pencil warrants a PG-13. I spoke to the director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, 28 days Later), and he's more disappointed I am.

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