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...shuns any contact with Havana and criticized Canada for rewarding the dictator. Yet Canada has long had a special relationship with Cuba. It is the biggest foreign investor on the island, trading to the tune of $500 million last year. Axworthy has not minced words in criticizing the Helms-Burton act, which threatens to retaliate against foreign companies doing business in Cuba. Prime Minister Jean Chretien seconded his foreign minister, maintaining that Washington's policy of isolation gives Castro an excuse to stay in power instead of moving toward change...
...DIED. BURTON LANE, 84, high school dropout turned celebrated stage and film composer who wrote the music for the Broadway shows Finian's Rainbow and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever; in New York City. Lane won a Grammy and was nominated for a Tony for On a Clear...
...budget on a movie whose basic business is consciously to satirize a genre that until recently tended to be low-rent and pretty much self-satirizing. Maybe this is an all too conspicuous waste of precious cinematic resources. But you have to admire everyone's chutzpah: the breadth of Burton's (and writer Jonathan Gems') movie references, which range from Kurosawa to Kubrick; and above all their refusal to offer us a single likable character. Perhaps they don't create quite enough deeply funny earthlings to go around, but a thoroughly meanspirited big-budget movie is always a treasurable rarity...
...White House to the gang in Las Vegas, to the dysfunctional bunch living in a trailer near a small Kansas town, are presented as entirely worthy of zapping; they are all either too dumb or too self-absorbed to warrant salvation. Indeed, the big, slowly dawning joke in Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! is that, unlike Independence Day or any other high-tech disaster movie, most of its vast and starry cast--headed by Jack Nicholson, in dual roles--is not going to be present when the final credits roll...
...President, Burton's role is not all bad news. When a chairman lacks credibility, it's easier for White House spin doctors to dismiss the committee's work as partisan bilge. To prevent that, Burton says, he won't rush to hold hearings on the campaign-finance scandal but will instead spend the next few months investigating. By then he plans to have enough information to make Huang and others squirm at the witness table. If Burton remains true to his new form, the White House could be in for an unpleasant year...