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...decided to revive the opera. He asked Pulitzer-prizewinning playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America) to write a new libretto. Kushner, immediately drawn to what he calls the opera's "timeless message of the necessity to stand up to bullies," was also enchanted by the appealing staccato of the Czech language and has folded some of its nuances into his new version. In an earlier English version, the names Aninku and Pepicek became Annette and Little Joe, cutting out delicious linguistic details from the piece. "It sounded like a 1950s biker film," says Kushner...
...rate-fits-all policy problem: The country needs an interest rate hike to help stymie rising prices, but with German inflation likely to fall to 0.8% in May, the European Central Bank will probably cut rates. And just wait until Eastern Europe joins up. Countries like Lithuania and the Czech Republic have been grappling with deflation for four straight months. A Wheeze Of Relief Stocks of tobacco companies lit up after a Florida appeals court overturned a $145 billion judgement against them, ruling that the individuals suing were too diverse to join in a single suit. The damage award...
...enthusiastic fossil hunter who fantasized about time travel and scoured abandoned quarries. Now 35, Hrebejk has traded his geology hammer for a camera, and become an accomplished director with four acclaimed features and an Oscar nomination. Since his latest film, Pupendo, opened March 27, it has become the Czech Republic's top-grossing movie since 1989, pulling in an estimated $2.2 million at the box office in its first seven weeks. But deep down, the Prague native remains the amateur paleontologist of his childhood. Today, he travels in time through his movies, and the fossils he excavates are buried...
Pupendo is not enjoyed; Pupendo hurts. All the same it's a great film. - PAVEL DOSTAL, Czech Culture Minister
...Pupendo is not enjoyed; Pupendo hurts," says Czech Culture Minister Pavel Dostál. "All the same it's a great film." Milos Forman, the émigré Czech film-maker and two-time Oscar winner, hails Hrebejk's ability to speak with "originality, imagination and humor about the dilemma of people trying to survive and have a decent life in a small country dominated repeatedly through centuries by powerful neighbors." Hrebejk's gallows humor makes Pupendo hilarious at times. In one scene, Mára's wife, who makes ceramic piggy banks for a living, switches from pig shapes...