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...Actor's Genius The headline of Richard Schickel's Appreciation of Marlon Brando, "Hostage of His Own Genius," was unfair to the actor [July 12]. Schickel quoted Laurence Olivier as saying there is no room for genius in the theater because it causes too much trouble. Your critic noted that Brando's genius was for a long time "too much trouble" for everyone to bear. However, without Brando's genius, cinema today would not be as good as it is. He inspired actors to contribute their own share of genius and ideas about moviemaking to the art. Film lovers wish...
...movie Convoy, starring Kris Kristofferson. In the past 15 years, Davis has racked up more sales than Bruce Springsteen, Sting or Billy Joel; since November he has scored five No. 1 albums on the Billboard charts. "Chip Davis somehow understands what people want," says Los Angeles Times critic Don Heckman...
RELEASED. JIANG YANYONG, 72, prominent surgeon who blew the whistle on China's SARS cover-up; after 49 days in custody; in Beijing. Chinese authorities, apparently bowing to pressure inside and outside the country, allowed Jiang--who has also been an outspoken critic of the 1989 violence at Tiananmen Square--to return home, and he is not expected to be charged...
After four years of violence that shows no signs of ending, opposition to Arafat is spreading to the street. A leading Arafat critic, former Minister Nabil Amr, was shot in the leg by a gunman last week; reformers took it as at least a warning from Arafat loyalists. In Gaza, Arafat's Fatah faction issued a stream of leaflets accusing his henchmen of corruption and violence. Most of the vitriol was aimed at Arafat's cousin Moussa, whom he named this month to head the National Security Forces. The leaflets also accused Arafat of siphoning off public money...
...family of performing professionals. I was as close to the entertainment industry as my section of the Corliss clan got, And as a critic, of course, I?m basically a paid member of the audience - a voyeur, not an exhibitionist; a destroyer, not a creator. Yet the showbiz bug keeps infiltrating successive generations, keeps bringing them to New York. Derek is here now, waiting tables and taking courses as he and a friend hone their improv comedy act. His father, after a full career in the airline business, is now the executive director of a Denver-area symphony orchestra...