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...says "SCHOOL." I suppose the look on my face says "You gotta be kidding." Welcome to week three of skating school at Manhattan's Chelsea Piers. Every Monday for eight weeks, a different, seemingly younger instructor from Ice Theater of New York stands before a dozen women in their 30s and demands the impossible--literally...
Three cons (Clooney, Turturro and Nelson) are on the lam in '30s Mississippi. A blind prophet intones, "You shall see a cow on top of a cotton bale, and many other startlements." Startlements are indeed in store: a one-eyed, toad-squishing salesman (Goodman); three maidens washing their laundry in a stream. These, and the name of the bombastic schemer Clooney plays--Everett Ulysses McGill--should be sufficient clues to identify the film's source: "Based on The Odyssey by Homer...
Three cons (Clooney, Turturro and Nelson) are on the lam in '30s Mississippi. A blind prophet intones, "You shall see a cow on top of a cotton bale, and many other startlements." Startlements are indeed in store: a one-eyed, toad-squishing salesman (Goodman); three maidens washing their laundry in a stream. These, and the name of the bombastic schemer Clooney plays - Everett Ulysses McGill - should be sufficient clues to identify the film's source: "based on The Odyssey by Homer." While tout Hollywood purloins comic books for its scenarios, Joel and Ethan Coen raid noble antiquity: not just Homer...
...world as it is when we are young. My father, for example, was molded by the Great Depression. Although he was a witty, optimistic man, a cold wind blew sometimes from the back of his biography - the knowledge that the world could collapse. Even as he prospered later, the '30s of his boyhood whistled thinly through his mind. The bleak years gave him an ambience of expectation about life and its dangers...
...Friday morning in an isolated village in the West Bank. Hamas is one of two major militant Islamic groups operating in the Palestinian territories and Israel. The other group, Islamic Jihad, has taken responsibility for last week's Jerusalem car bombing. The chain-smoking Abu Ali, in his mid-30s, described Hamas' strategy...