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...Last month, Kelly, Britain's foremost expert on Iraq's weaponry, was found dead in a field near his Oxfordshire home with his wrist slit. Kelly had been the source for bbc correspondent Andrew Gilligan's story about the government "sexing up" the document, and Kelly admitted to his boss that he had met the journalist (although he was vague about what he had told Gilligan). Kelly, as a civil servant, was supposed to brief journalists on technical matters only, but he expected his confession to be kept confidential and was horrified to have his name nudged into the open...
...continually redrafted. And Blair, it turns out, was also anxious to learn what Kelly's views were about WMD and what Kelly might say to the M.P.s. is the BBC vindicated? Nope. Despite the Beeb's public defense of Gilligan's story, an internal e-mail from Gilligan's boss talked about his strong but "flawed" reporting. And a bbc colleague who also interviewed Kelly complained her bosses had tried to dragoon her into corroborating Gilligan's story, which she felt attributed to Kelly things he did not know - specifically, that Campbell personally inserted the 45-minute claim. Last week...
Open Range is that most unfashionable creature, a western--the story of two cowboys, Charley (Costner) and Boss (Robert Duvall) in 1882, caring for their herd and each other, wandering into town and into trouble. It is peopled with the usual suspects: the corrupt sheriff (James Russo), the mean rich guy (Michael Gambon), the warm, weathered spinster (Annette Bening). The plot is basically a real-estate wrangle: whether Boss and Charley have the right to graze their herd on land claimed by the rich guy. And there's a lovely interlude with Charley and the spinster, where the cowboy...
...what makes Open Range such a mature and satisfying treat is the interplay of Boss and Charley, two terse, honorable men in the saddle. It's a real and rare pleasure to see Costner and Duvall together--these masters of intense passivity, who know how to be watched when they're listening. They can do tough talk (Duvall to three interlopers: "One twitch, and you're in hell") or laconic wit (Costner as he spots a few other folks: "Country's fillin' up"). They make a terrific pair of knights errant, or maybe bachelor dinosaurs, enjoying themselves on the Western...
SHANGHAI TRIAD. A gangster movie without the classic Western romanticism by director Zhang Yimou. Shuiseng (Wang Xiaoxiao), a small town boy, is brought to the Shanghai of the 30s by his Uncle Liu (Xuejian Li). Uncle Liu takes him to work for a very wealthy mafia boss, Tang (Baotian Li) and his mistress Xiao Jingbao, played by the timeless Gong Li. Overwhelmed by the glitzy life of the big city and the opulence around him, Shuiseng also witnesses inter-triad betrayal, Xiao’s tumultuous love affair and vicious gang wars. The plot carries director Zhang?...