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...Critics like Bara Hasibuan, a political columnist for Kompas, the nation's largest daily newspaper, say it is the cases the attorney general's office has declined to pursue that expose the current trials as little more than a sop to public opinion. For instance, the $3 billion extended by the central bank to Suharto crony Syamsul Nursalim's troubled business empire in the wake of the 1997 financial crisis remains unexplained, let alone investigated. The Nursalim family has long been closely associated with the President's businessman husband, Taufik Kiemas. Taufik is emerging as the country's second most...
...Cleopatra found her way onto the silver screen even before cinema had sound. In 1917, Theda Bara starred-in harem girl get-up-in a silent-film version of Cleopatra. Seventeen years later, Claudette Colbert had the title role, and Hollywood waged an all-out publicity campaign to encourage female moviegoers to adopt the "Cleopatra look." Many copied Colbert's dark bangs after hearing her declaim, following the seduction of Antony: "I've seen a god come to life. I'm no longer a queen. I'm a woman...
Sturges' mother was a much-married dilettante who befriended Theda Bara, Aleister Crowley and Isadora Duncan. While working for his mother's cosmetics firm, Preston invented a kissproof lipstick. His life was as eccentric as his films. How does Donald Spoto make it read like forced labor? Some biographies, the good ones, offer a vivid picture of the artist's life. Others, like Spoto's, remind you of the biographer's trudge through library morgues and dead-end interviews. Sturges' film world was so open to American experience that even a bartender, asked for a special concoction, could exclaim...
...mounted 65 screens, each strobing scenes of Bonnie and Clyde or Abbott and Costello or any of a hundred other images. AMMI's apex is Tut's Fever, an Egyptian-style movie palace conceived by Artists Red Grooms and Lysiane Luong. Grooms' impish sculptures staff the theater: Theda Bara sits in the box office; Mae West sells you candy; Mickey Rooney is the usher; a sarcophagus creaks open to reveal the late James Dean. In the theater auditorium, its walls a splurge of film-trivia graffiti, you can watch a silent-movie serial or just gawk at the delirious decor...
...lips. Elsewhere, actors stroll about in character to fill in the historical blanks. In a room labeled "Cinema Goes to War," for example, "soldiers" roll about in trenches. Nearby is a majestic staircase canopied by MOMI's own high-camp Erecthyon: six sculpted muses of the silent cinema (Theda Bara, Mary Pickford, Buster Keaton, Douglas Fairbanks, Lillian Gish and Rudolph Valentino) serving as columns in a temple of the gods...