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...host countries want the Games' glitz to reflect on their national image, while carefully avoiding the Uber-patriotism of the disastrous Berlin Games in 1936, meant to showcase Adolph Hitler's Third Reich. Inter Asia, a foreign public-relations firm that briefly advised Beijing on its bid eight years ago, had urged officials to emphasize the city instead of the nation, history instead of politics, and generally to try to look nice. Officials ignored the suggestions. Factories forced workers to sign petitions supporting the Games. Police rounded up mentally handicapped citizens who might be glimpsed by Olympic officials from...
...drugged. Though there is no indication that fish can harbor the bse prion, it is hardly reassuring to know that much of it is artificially farmed and fed with the same meat-based meal that has been outlawed for cows and other livestock. No wonder many Europeans agree with Berlin housewife Hannelore Schröder that they might as well stick with beef. "What else am I to eat?" she asks. "Pork is full of antibiotics, poultry is full of hormones...
...looking for fresh ideas in theater, I'd suggest forgetting Albee and traveling a few blocks uptown, to see Reba McEntire in the Broadway revival of "Annie Get Your Gun." Sure, this Irving Berlin classic is about as mainstream as theater gets (though Graciela Daniele's tasteful update, which originally starred Bernadette Peters, goes a long way to neutralizing the politically incorrect treatment of Indians). But a country singer playing Annie Oakley? It's a notion so obvious and unexpected that it has the shock of the revolutionary. The real shock, though, is how well Reba pulls...
...didn't have to rehearse the accent. Best of all, she gives the great score a fresh, country-flavored reworking, lacing songs like "Lost in His Arms" and "Moonshine Lullaby" with quavers and curlicues and a hearty, maple-syrup sweetness that would have brought tears to the eyes of Berlin himself. As it did to mine...
Rejected by both Sundance and the Museum of Modern Art's New Directors series, George Washington was a hit at the Berlin, Toronto and New York film festivals. Now Green is not just a visionary, he's a commodity. Most young "independents" begin with low-budget, character-driven studies because it's all they can afford. If their film gets Hollywood attention, they're off to direct Erin Brockovich or Finding Forrester...