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...challenge is to prove he's right. To that end, the film clips about Africa and the poor in America will be only half as long as the ones shown on British TV. Surprise celebrity guests will pop up to keep people curious. There will be comedy--and not just of the early-bad-audition variety. "One of the tricks I've learned," says Curtis, "is to let people do what they're best at for us. Nobody wants to see Sacha Baron Cohen talking about farming issues...
...maybe we are, but that reckons without the easy naturalism of Anders Thomas Jensen's script and the brilliance with which it is played by its perfectly cast actors. For a very long time we wonder if what's unfolding on the screen is just a set of very curious coincidences instead of what it obviously is: a carefully rigged scheme by Jorgen, who is keeping a dark and tragic secret from his family. When it is revealed, After the Wedding turns into a number of things: a contemplation of mortality for one thing, and perhaps even more important...
...sell R-rated movies to kids under 17, but it will sell unrated ones. Hostel was a No. 1 seller there.) Or they watch lurid clips on YouTube. You can whitewash the billboards, but you can't delete all the sources of input to a child's curious mind...
...CURIOUS CAPITAL In 2005, in a bizarre and abrupt shift, Burma's military leadership moved the capital from its longtime home in coastal Rangoon to a far-flung jungle outpost called Naypyidaw. On March 27, in celebration of Armed Forces Day, junta head General Than Shwe unveiled the city to foreign reporters, surveying his new digs via the open sun roof of his Mercedes limo. Pastel buildings? Check. Eight-lane highway? Check. Vibrant new city for a nation of 47 million? Not yet. Those in Rangoon who still have a choice haven't budged...
...here's the curious thing: None of the almost 6,000 Montfort residents (out of a total population of 6,500) who have demanded the Malians' return dispute the fact that those arrested had been in France illegally, some of them using forged identity papers and work permits. They may have broken the law, say their supporters, but look at their contribution to the community. Most have lived in Montfort since 2002, when they were recruited by the local abattoir struggling fill the positions. Even though much of the work involved slaughtering pigs, the Muslim Malians worked their long, early...