Word: axman
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...plays a "psychic soldier" in the fact-based comedy The Men Who Stare at Goats. He lends his voice to the title character in the animated version of Roald Dahl's children's tale Fantastic Mr. Fox. And opening this weekend, he's a solo frequent flyer and corporate axman in Up in the Air--the apex of this Clooney trifecta and one of the year's most rewarding films...
Gentlemen is set around A.D. 950 in a politically chaotic region of the Caucasus mountains. Our heroes are two rootless adventurers: Amram, a massive Abyssinian axman, and Zelikman, a pale, painfully skinny Frank (a kind of proto-German) who dresses in all black and carries a surgical instrument as a weapon. They are fast friends, seasoned brawlers and amateur philosophers given to terse exchanges of melancholy wit. They resemble--as all couples who stay together long enough ultimately do--Vladimir and Estragon from Waiting for Godot...
Expectations were that Altman would take Companion's mixture of sentiment and gentle satire and make it moodier and darker. Not so, says Keillor. "I made it darker, by introducing the conceit of the last show." In the movie, the show has been sold to a conglomerate, whose axman (Tommy Lee Jones) arrives at the end of the broadcast to shut it down. No wonder the Angel of Death (Virginia Madsen) is gliding through the theater's wings...
...troops to flush out the Chechen separatists Russia says are hiding there. Shevardnadze spurned Russia's suggestion of a joint operation against the Chechens: "We will solve our problems on our own, and the Pankisi Gorge will become one of the country's exemplary and stable regions." MEANWHILE The Axman Cometh Guests at a British banker's 50th birthday party at a ch?teau in the south of France were surprised when "a very special guest" came on stage to play guitar - Tony Blair, with his shirt raffishly unbuttoned. Blair, who played in a band at Oxford called Ugly Rumours, belted...