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CHALLENGES: The book detailed a seductive but alien world that the movie has to help the viewer navigate without having too much clunky exposition. The movie also has to be true to 1930s and '40s Japanese culture while shooting mostly in California with Chinese actresses in the lead roles, and it had to find cumulative power in an episodic story stretched over two decades...
...conventions over the top. Racy for its time (for ours, even) the 1977-81 series features pitch-perfect work from Katherine Helmond, Richard Mulligan and Robert Guillaume, who reprised his sarcastic- butler role on Benson. The outrageous final season offers story lines involving a Latin American revolutionary, a possibly alien baby and a kung-fu fortress. Meanwhile, Billy Crystal, as one of TV's first gay characters, begins channeling the spirit of a 90-year-old Jewish man--which, come to think of it, he's been doing ever since...
...international pursuit. “The world’s peace is dependent upon people learning to respect one another’s religious peculiarities,” Larsen said. “Through meetings like this, people can go beyond what is comfortable to explore what may seem alien and perhaps threatening.” HRCF President Kristen Heyburn ’06 said the meetings also give religious groups the opportunity to discuss common obstacles, such as a lack of space. “A lot of groups have similar needs,” she said. In December...
Paris burns anyway. As the French seem to learn every 70 years, appeasement does not work. It merely whets the appetite. And the angry alien young were already hungry...
...ever scale the invisible barriers to departure thrown up by deplorable education levels and the unlikelihood of finding work. Periodic efforts to fix the banlieue have been launched repeatedly over the years, but the fecklessness of such initiatives-and the underlying attitudes of the wider society that views as alien even France-born and -raised banlieusards-failed to halt further festering. This month's violence appears to finally have driven home the message that the crisis of the banlieue can no longer be ignored...