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...film is fiercely emotional—Johnny Depp’s J.M. Barrie must face fatal disease, domestic discord, and a devastating death—but the action is safely removed from us, both temporally and geographically. The travails of an aristocrat in fin-de-siècle Britain may make for stellar entertainment, but they cannot engage the pressing issues of our contemporary culture...
...publicized protest: the 1999 comedy Dogma, for example, spurred the Catholic League to circulate petitions and run New York Times ads calling for a boycott of the movie. The outrage at 1973’s The Exorcist was so widespread and furious that the movie was banned in Great Britain until...
...late 1970s. Dawa received backing from the Shi'ite regime in Iran. During the Iraq-Iran war in the 1980s, Saddam made membership in the party punishable by death and brutally suppressed the movement. Like much of the Dawa leadership, al-Jaafari fled to Iran and then to Britain. The group's past activities are murky. Al-Jaafari was a member of Dawa's political wing when it bombed the U.S. and French embassies in Kuwait and the Iraqi embassy in Beirut in the 1980s. Al-Jaafari has denied any involvement in the attacks...
WHAT'S THE BEST WAY TO HANDLE IRAN? Iran has to waive the right to build nuclear weapons. Full stop. Britain, France and Germany think the right way to achieve this is through diplomatic means. The vibes we're getting from within Iran also seem to show there is some willingness to go for that type of solution...
McShane too was no obvious bet. A working actor since age 17, he was a minor TV star in Britain and little known in the U.S. His best-known role here was as another baddie, in the 2000 indie crime movie Sexy Beast. "The question was how his [Mancunian] accent would play in such a quintessentially American role," says HBO entertainment president Carolyn Strauss. But, says creator David Milch, McShane dropped the accent and inhabited the role so thoroughly that he overcame Milch's doubts...