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...like Shakespeare. So when Kenneth Branagh wanted her for his lush new Hamlet, she was disinclined to accept. "I just find Gertrude such a weird part. And I didn't know if I wanted to get into all that emotionalizing," says the actress whose cool presence lit up classic films like Dr. Zhivago and McCabe & Mrs. Miller but who hasn't been seen much onscreen since the '60s and early '70s. Friends changed her mind about Gertrude. "I'm ever so glad they did," she says...
Famous on the Brattle’s screening menu are classics marathons and festivals such as the Bogart, Hitchcock, or Warner Brothers cartoon festivals. This month, the Greta Garbo Festival gave film lovers an opportunity to relive the glory days of this classic star. Great classics are often shown as part of double features; recently “Psycho”/“The Birds” were paired for the price of one admission...
...Howard calls the measures "major but not extreme." It's classic Howard reform. From little things big things grow, as the vernacular poet sang. If he can swing the legislation without significant alterations, Howard will have started a cultural and economic dynamic that will change Australia forever. Over the coming years, workers' capacity to strike will be limited, the income gap between workers with highly prized skills and those without will expand, the role of unions (already losing their relevance) will decline, and Australians' ideas about the relationship between bosses and workers and about a fair-wage safety net will...
...without sufficient resources. In small, poor places, cadres want better working conditions, better incomes and better education. Since they don't get money from Beijing, they collect it from the farmers, many of whom are too poor to pay fees, taxes and other levies. This burden has been a classic cause of rural unrest. Faced with excessive fees, farmers complain to higher authorities, petition Beijing, sue the local government or, in more radical cases, surround government buildings and burn offices...
...five new designs substitute a smooth aluminum surface for the contoured grooves of the classic green-glass bottle. Each model also features a "night mode" and can glow in the dark. Instead of using standard labels, the company printed graphics directly on the aluminum. "For the first time, the bottle could be reshaped," says Peter Schelstraete, global brand manager, who credits Apple with demonstrating that consumers reward radically creative design innovation...