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...couple of weeks starring Ethan Hawke and Diane Venora. The twist? This time it's the Danish Corporation in modern day NYC. A couple weeks later, Kenneth Branaugh's Love's Labour Lost opens nationwide, set as a 1930's period musical with songs by Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and George Gershwin. We'll have interviews with both Hawke and Branaugh before the year is up...Everyone is going gaga over the new Lord of the Rings trailer-the first movie in the trilogy opens this December. Check out the preview at the New Line Cinema website... Speaking of websites...
...Pergamon, Paris, Berlin. We can go to Florida for spring break, or Costa Rica or London or California. We go abroad to sub-Saharan Africa, to Australia, to Eastern Europe. The world is a collection of islands connected by Coke and in-flight movies...
...lived in Dresden, and at least once a camera caught him shopping in West Berlin. But he seems to have spent most of his time as deputy director of the backwater House of German-Soviet Friendship in Leipzig collecting, analyzing and passing on bits of information. He was thought to be close to his counterparts in the East German intelligence service, Stasi, who were notorious for their crude repression, though he claims he "never saw it." He rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel, respectable but hardly stellar...
What may have affected his future most was the spectacle of the Soviet Empire's downfall. In excerpts from his book, he recalls the bunker atmosphere in his offices in East Berlin as the Soviet system came tumbling down. Putin called home to find out what to do. But "Moscow was silent," occupied with its own meltdown. "I felt," he recalls, "that the country no longer existed...
...fall of the Berlin Wall was supposed to bring on the end of history, a time when great power confrontation would give way to the mere frictions of the global marketplace and the lotions of consumerism would keep everything running smoothly. Maybe someday. What we know for now is that all around the edges of the peaceable Banana Republic, history is still being made the old-fashioned way, with land mines and machetes...