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...therefore the most powerful man with direct control over the things we care about such as the College, got along well with Neil. Neil’s first job pick was Knowles, at the time the Nobel-quality scientist chairing the chemistry department. They would get together, Jeremy the Brit, all Burberry suit and vociferating hands, and Neil the Danburian, quirky humanitarian, and talk art over fancy wines with their wives. Over time, well, things got tense...
...latest round of Brit royal schadenfreude involves the revelation that PRINCE PHILIP believes his son, PRINCE CHARLES, is a poor excuse for a future King. A lengthy profile in the Daily Telegraph hailed Philip as a "man of great depth and complexity, by far the most intelligent member of the royal family"; it also revealed that Philip believes Charles is "precious, extravagant and lacking in the dedication and discipline he will need" to be a good King. Philip is not quoted directly, but the status of those authorized by Philip to speak caused Charles to allow his own sources...
...BRIT KITSCH Among the hallowed relics of the British Empire facing the dustbin of history: the garden gnome. Can these millennial makeovers, now in British stores, save the twee folk...
...Broadway theater, the new millennium has started on a note of musical diminuendo. With the demise of "Cats," the soon-to-be-missing "Miss Saigon" and the lack of any new hits from Andrew Lloyd Webber or the "Les Miz" team in years, the era of the Brit-generated mega-musical seems all but over. Happily, straight plays seem to be filling the gap. Demanding dramas like Michael Frayn's "Copenhagen" have become unlikely Broadway hits, while the Manhattan Theatre Club, an off-Broadway stalwart, successfully transferred two strong works, "Proof" and "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife...
...fascination with Japan's perceived strangeness stretches from the beginning of films - when actor Sessue Hayakawa was one of the first Hollywood stars - to today. In the new Brit comedy Bridget Jones's Diary the heroine's mum blithely describes the Japanese as a "very cruel race." And if you think the Japanese cannot portray themselves as very cruel, check out Teruo Ishii's Joy of Torture films. In these two gore classics from the '60s, victims of feudal lords are roasted, splayed, beheaded, crucified and otherwise inconvenienced. These are not the only examples of cinematic exploitation and self-criticism...