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...concerns aside, what sets Amélie apart from its peers is the film’s refusal to take itself too seriously. Certainly, Amélie’s relationship with the Man of Glass (an elderly neighbor so named for his severe bone disease) adds an intellectual counterpoint to all the levity. But just when it seems that Jeunet is establishing another dour subplot, he kicks it to the curb with one of the film’s simplest and best jokes. It’s clear that Jeunet and his cast are having fun with this film...
...Hell's throat slashings in order to avoid an NC-17. They also softened, by choice, the sound effects for a scene in which the killer disembowels a woman with surgical instruments. "Every time I heard that, it bothered me," says Allen. "It sounded like a knife on the bone against the meat. It disturbed a lot of people...
...responsible for anthrax, for one, nestle in soil and animals for years, sometimes even decades. Over the past century, 18 Americans have fatally inhaled anthrax spores. The victims include a San Francisco woman who played bongo drums made from infected skins, and gardeners who handled fertilizer made with ground bone from infected animals...
...this contributed to Mapfumo’s performance at Sanders, which, organized by Boston’s own World Music, was a very poignant affair. Forced out of the country after his last album cut too close to the bone in its criticism of the current government, Mapfumo and his band are now permanently based in the U.S., although only three members of the band were able to perform with him. Stripped of his rich accompaniment, Mapfumo’s rich, expressive voice came across almost plaintively, particularly when he sang, “Makuona here kuti mukomana akatorwa...
...along an open sewage ditch, sprinting with a car tire strapped to her back, floating for half an hour in frigid ocean waters and rolling commando-style in mud. But when coaches blindfolded her in the dead of night, took her to a crematorium and told her to fetch bones from the ovens, she almost lost it. Says the tanned Olympian, hard-muscled from using bows with a bone-snapping 17 kg of draw weight: "I cried...