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...expect a certain tense solemnity when an Academy Award--winning director is shooting a film on the life and death of Jesus Christ. On the sound stage of The Passion in Rome's Cinecitta studio, the famed auteur prepares a scene for Maia Morgenstern, the Romanian actress playing the Virgin Mary. She is to enter the abandoned temple where her son has just been removed in chains on his way to Calvary. The director needs an enshrouding silence, so he shouts down some workmen's chatter. Then he coaxes the actress into a long, slow walk that hits the perfect...
Traditionally, frequent-flyer tickets are exempt from those nasty $100 fees for a last-minute change in schedule. In the fall American Airlines began imposing a $100 fee on AAdvantage members making changes on award tickets. American also charges $50 to $75 to "expedite" the processing of any award flight purchased within three weeks of travel. (The restriction used to be just two days.) Northwest and Continental Airlines have both increased by 5,000 the number of miles required to earn a free flight. Delta is making it tougher for bargain flyers to win "elite" status (which gives them perks...
...DIED. RICHARD CRENNA,76, versatile Emmy Award-winning actor; in Los Angeles. Crenna was known to 1950s TV viewers as the grandson of a meddling hillbilly in The Real McCoys and later to moviegoers as Rambo's Vietnam War commander in First Blood (1982) and its two sequels. Crenna's movie credits also include the suspense thriller Wait Until Dark (1967) and sizzling film noir Body Heat...
...that his lyrics are in Dutch. He first got into rap in his early teens when an aunt gave him a tape by Public Enemy. He had to balance his musical aspirations with his day job as a baker until 2001, when he won the Netherlands' most prestigious pop award. He's since used his popularity to promote several youth community projects by giving rap workshops to youngsters in the poor neighborhoods of Amsterdam. Part of Raymzter's appeal lies in the fact that he's singing from the heart. His lyrics are rooted firmly in his own experience...
...this flowering been perceived by those left behind in China? Perhaps it hasn't even been noticed. Four years after U.S.-based Ha Jin won a National Book Award and three years after France-based Gao Xingjian was honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature, the work of these two internationally hailed Chinese authors is still largely unseen inside China. Sadly, the China-born authors now emerging on the world's literary stage remain largely unknown inside their native country. Some are still banned...