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...coming Brian D’arcy James onstage) is a youngster consumed with a lust for power. Much like Leo Bloom in The Producers, he wants everything he’s ever seen in the movies. His key to the bright lights is the most powerful gossip columnist in the country, a vicious, preening Walter Winchel-like monster named J.J. Hunsecker (Richard Lancaster on film and Lithgow onstage). In order to get into Hunsecker’s precious good graces, Falco must split up the relationship between Hunsecker’s sister, Susan, and nightclub singer Dallas...
...Columnist Charles Krauthammer is right that Israel cannot accept Saudi Prince Abdullah's peace-for-land plan, but he omitted the strongest reason: the proposal is founded on a discredited idea [VIEWPOINT, March 11]. The 1947 U.N. partition plan suggested the same trade-off. Idealistically, Israel accepted. In response, the Arabs started a war. The 1993 Oslo agreement too was based on the idea of land for peace. Naively, Israel handed over not only land but also money and weapons. The Palestinians used them to create a terrorist state, complete with arms shipments from Iran and the blatant refusal...
...Critics like Bara Hasibuan, a political columnist for Kompas, the nation's largest daily newspaper, say it is the cases the attorney general's office has declined to pursue that expose the current trials as little more than a sop to public opinion. For instance, the $3 billion extended by the central bank to Suharto crony Syamsul Nursalim's troubled business empire in the wake of the 1997 financial crisis remains unexplained, let alone investigated. The Nursalim family has long been closely associated with the President's businessman husband, Taufik Kiemas. Taufik is emerging as the country's second most...
...campaigns have always been competitive, but I don't recall it ever being as down and dirty as it seems to be this year," says Robert Osborne, a Hollywood Reporter columnist (and author of 70 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards), who has been fed anonymous notes and e-mail tips assailing various Oscar contenders. Gone are the days when the studios' plan was simply to plow money into trade ads touting their films and stars--to out-green the competition. Now the idea is to out-mean them...
...center of the struggle is Ron Howard’s sugary biopic and Oscar frontrunner A Beautiful Mind, which has been the subject of an ongoing smear campaign by rival studios. Internet gossip columnist Matt Drudge pounded the film’s subject, John Nash, for his supposed “anti-Semitism,” and ever since the film’s release it has been attacked for ignoring Nash’s apparent bisexuality and his illegitimate child with Jeannette Walls. Add to the mix the constant Moulin Rouge backlash and Gosford Park director Robert Altman?...