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Rinko Kikuchi's breakthrough performance as a troubled, sexually exploring, deaf-mute teenager in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Babel was so convincing that co-star Cate Blanchett didn't know the Japanese actress could actually talk until Kikuchi spoke to her off-camera. Her country's first Oscar-nominated actress in 49 years, Kikuchi talked to TIME's Michiko Toyama...
...word often used when it comes to U.S. relations with North Korea - surrounds the latest round of the so called six-party talks, which resumed today in Beijing. The talks aimed at getting Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons program have gone nowhere since September 2005, when a breakthrough about the terms for a possible grand compromise quickly broke down - in part because of North Korean fury at financial sanctions imposed by Washington. The North then dramatically upped the ante in the long-running showdown by successfully testing a small nuclear bomb last October...
...tough part is that the North doesn't want to be seen succumbing to U.S. pressure. A deal would thus require negotiating language and action that would (1) allow Pyongyang to save face as it gives up a valued program and (2) permit Washington to claim a breakthrough without looking like it's rewarded a rogue nation. Oh, and (1) and (2) have to happen just about simultaneously...
...bullets on the beach? Although Henzell's film was a sharp critique on the closed, cutthroat circle of corruption between the island's music industry, police, and drug dealers, what eventually made the rest of the world take note was the film's blistering soundtrack, which was a breakthrough moment for reggae music. As well as the songs like "Many Rivers To Cross" and "You Can Get It If You Really Want" that were written and sung by young singer Jimmy Cliff, (who also played the lead character, Ivan), the soundtrack showcased Toots and the Maytals' "Pressure Drop," Desmond Dekker...
...terrible time writing it, between you and me. The big breakthrough came with the idea of addressing the whole thing to his stepdaughter. Who, by the way, is meant to be black, although nobody 's sort of picked up on that. In the paperback I'm going to spell it out. She was in the first draft, but only in one scene, just a tiny thing from her childhood. And then I realized, if he addressed the whole thing to her, made her the central, the only remaining human being he still loved, then it gives it all kinds...