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...their tawdriest laundry in public for a few minutes of TV fame. The show is just one example of a wave of new stage works overseas that put the U.S. in a distinctly unflattering light. In Paris a "savagely satirical impromptu" called George W. Bush or God's Sad Cowboy has been drawing crowds since reopening in late Mayafter closing for two weeks when its writer-director, Attilio Maggiulli, was beaten up by a couple of pro-Bush thugs. (Talk about satirical impromptus.) It portrays the U.S. President as a spoiled 6-year-old who sucks his thumb and plays...
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...Died. John Schlesinger, 77, Oscar-winning British director famous for edgy dramas examining human frailty; in Palm Springs, California. Schlesinger is best known for his gritty 1969 film Midnight Cowboy, which starred Dustin Hoffman as an ailing con man and Jon Voight as the naive cowboy of the title who becomes a gigolo to survive in New York City. Schlesinger's 1976 thriller Marathon Man, about a college student on the run from a former Nazi, also featured Hoffman. He said of the director: "Shakespeare said it best in Hamlet, 'We will never see the likes of him again...
...Entering from the north, one of the first vintage-togs stalls is All About Denim run by laid-back Gai, whose sound system seems to play only two types of music: country and Western. Stocking seriously battered cowboy boots (from 500 baht, which is $12, upwards) and garish, gabardine shirts with pearled snap buttons (from 500 to 4,000 baht), this is the spot if you fancy kitting yourself out like singing cowboy Gene Autry. Just a few more meters into the m?l?e nestles hole-in-the-wall outlet Golden Man. Its friendly proprietor, Preecha?his chuffed, pixie face framed...
Based on the best-selling book by Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit tells the true story of an ornery, undersize, beaten-up Thoroughbred who becomes a champion in the 1930s. Seabiscuit is discovered by a broken-down cowboy (Chris Cooper) and a rich dilettante named Charles Howard (Jeff Bridges), who nurse him back to health. They need a rider who can handle him. Enter Maguire as Red Pollard, a bitter, washed-up jockey who was abandoned by his parents as a kid, then grew up too tall to make the big time. Along the way, Pollard lost the sight...