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...year ago, at a concert in Harare, Zimbabwe, Angélique Kidjo broke off in midperformance, walked to the front of the stage and declared: "I can't understand someone who is burning his own country and abducting his own people. Not being able to take care of your own people, becoming the worst nightmare, doesn't make you a leader. It makes you a monster. If you live by violence, you die by violence." The crowd was stunned. Berating Robert Mugabe, the 83-year-old autocrat who has overseen his country's implosion, was an invitation to be deported...
ERIC BANA played Banner in Ang Lee's poorly received 2003 film. Overshadowed by his massive, computer-generated Hulk persona, Bana didn't attract many fans. Will Norton fare better in what Marvel calls a "do-over"? Don't answer; you might make him angry...
Ever wonder what happens to old billboards? Probably not. But French entrepreneur Jean-Marc Imberton and designer Marie-Angèle Godot did, and what they found spurred them to action. "We realized there was a huge problem," says Imberton, of the giant polyvinyl chloride (PVC) advertising posters common to most cityscapes and beltways. "Their lifespan is very short and they're practically indestructible. Some of them stay up for months, others are used only for an evening. We wanted to give them a second life...
...anticipated Oscar nominations at least half of the time, and they often foretold the winners. Last year, for instance, the Boston group gave prizes to three who would be Academy winners (Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote as best actor, Reese Witherspoon in Walk the Line as best actress, and Ang Lee for directing Brokeback Mountain) and three that didn't win but were nominated (Brokeback Mountain as best film, Paul Giamatti in Cinderella Man for supporting actor and Catherine Keener in Capote for supporting actress). Of the L.A. critics' prizes, two went to eventual Oscar winners and the other four...
...reminded of a line from the Japanese poet Basho: 'Autumn leaves, the remains of a samurai's dream' ... A few came to plunder and destroy. ONE MAN THREW A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE DEPARTED FIRST LADY INTO AN ORNAMENTAL FISH POOL. But mostly, since an invitation to the Malacañang Palace had long been considered a jewel beyond price to the average Filipino, they came as tourists and as survivors. One excited old man said he had lived a block away for 40 years, and never dreamed he would ever see the day when he would set foot...