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...likely have any easy time of it. Local news reports in Tskhinvali contend that Georgian special forces were burning Georgian villages to create the impression that Russian forces were allowing ethnic cleansing. "The Georgians destroyed everything," said Alan Khosayev, 28, as he watched workers clear a destroyed Georgian tank from an intersection in Tskhinvali. "Now we'll have to rebuild it. I don't know where the money will come from to rebuild South Ossetia. Probably from Russia." Certainly the Russian forces are broadly seen as saviors among the Ossetians: graffiti on the side of one building read, "Thank...
This much of the story is true: In 1976, an English wine merchant named Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman), operating out of a small shop in Paris, is consistently snubbed by the insular and snooty French oenophile establishment. So he sets out to prove that offerings from other countries, which he unsuccessfully stocks, can equal those of the previously unchallenged French vintages. This leads him to California's Napa Valley, where he seeks wines that might fare well in a blind tasting he plans to stage in France. There he finds, among other good wines, a Chardonnay bottled by cranky...
Thousands of fanboys and fangirls awaiting their Citizen Kane stormed the San Diego Convention Center on July 25 to see advance footage of WATCHMEN, directed by Zack Snyder (300) and due in theaters next March. Based on Alan Moore's graphic novel--which TIME's critics named one of the 100 best novels since the magazine's founding in 1923--the film is set in an alternate 1980s world where Richard Nixon is still President, cold war tensions run high and superheroes are being murdered. Snyder's teaser showed arresting visuals of the giant blue Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup) atomizing...
...Alan Joyce, the smart, energetic CEO of Qantas' discount subsidiary Jetstar, who will take over as CEO from Dixon, who is retiring in November, recently suggested that simply cutting costs might not be enough to keep the company viable. Qantas, he said, might have to merge with another airline in the next few years. "With the high fuel prices we have, if that continues, a lot of airlines are not economic if they stand alone," Joyce told reporters. Qantas' "never crashed" reputation will hopefully survive, but there's no certainty its name will...
...Most Missed: Alan Moore. The Hollywood-averse Watchmen creator wants no part of Zack Snyder's big-screen adaptation of his graphic novel, but the movie's building buzz has won Moore lots of new fans. Opening night of the Con, comic-book vendors had stacks of the book on their tables. By Saturday, there wasn't a copy of Watchmen to be found. And a new generation of fanboys and -girls was being minted page by page...