Truth may be stranger than fiction but it’s seldom more entertaining, especially when projected onto a big screen at 24 frames per second.

The middle-aged American man whose night-time swim to visit Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi may cost her a chance at freedom came into fuzzy focus today, as a court showed a home movie he allegedly shot at her lakeside residence.

Aung San Suu Kyi celebrated her 61st birthday today still under house arrest as the military government beefed up security outside the barricaded home of Burma’s pro-democracy leader.

General Ne Win, Burma’s former military dictator, who dragged his country from near prosperity to poverty during his 26 years in power, died today under house arrest, family members said. He was 91.