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...Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) wondered at the timing. "Three weeks before election seems to be an odd time to be authorizing war." While many senators (including Kerry) parroted bogus stats supplied by Iraq "experts" on the imminent danger Saddam posed to the U.S., Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) counseled caution: "There is no victory in the destruction of one tyrant while breeding 10,000 terrorists." John McCain, a Vietnam POW for five years, voted for the war; but a few used Vietnam as a warning from history. "You're sentencing thousands of Americans to sure death," declared Rep. Pete Stark...
...Among the hot-ticket films that played Venice before Toronto: Ang Lee's steamy Lust, Caution, the Iraq war dramas Redacted and In the Valley of Elah, Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream, the Bob Dylan fantasia I'm Not There. Clooney and Pitt stood on the red-carpeted podium outside the Sala Grande to promote their product. All the big Hollywood films were shown in Venice's first few days, so the stars and directors could return to North America and catch a breath before coming to Toronto...
...come to these festive cities to be transported to other places, other sensibilities. In Lust, Caution it's Shanghai, 1942, where four Chinese ladies in the home of Mrs. Yee (Joan Chen) are deep in those twin devious pleasures, mahjong and gossip. What three of them don't know is that the fourth, Mak Tai Tai (Tang Wei), is embarking on an affair with Mrs. Yee's husband (Tony Leung Chiu-wai), a high-level government official collaborating with the occupying Japanese. Indeed, her name is not Mak Tai Tai but Wang Chia Chih, an operative of the underground Resistance...
...sumptuous Mata Hari melodrama that measures out its many luxurious over a 2-1/2hr. running time, Lust, Caution (from a short story by the late novelist and screenwriter Eileen Chang) is in a way the perfect blending of Ang Lee's two most popular films, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Brokeback Mountain. Like the first, it returns the Taiwanese native to China for a tale of political intrigue; like the second, it locates the passion, melancholy and power struggles of two complicated people. In a new book that includes the movie's original story, script and comments...
...Though Lust, Caution won the top prize at Venice, it has not been so widely admired by critics as Lee's other famous films. But it should be, for it mixes daring and delicacy with a master's touch. Toronto has got off to a good start with Lee's elegant, erotic movie - his own Brokeback Bedroom...