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...Richard Harris as Hogwarts principal Dumbledore, Michael Gambon has a ponderous, aristocratic humanism. Gary Oldman?s Sirius, the human-canine from the third film, has a bright cameo as a face in the fireplace. The movie strikes black gold with Alistair ?Mad-Eye? Moody, Hogwarts? new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. Played by Brendan Gleeson with a swagger and spume not seen since Robert Newton?s Long John Silver (another charming dastard), Mad-Eye has a globular left orb that stares skeptically, maniacally, at all it surveys. He seems both amiable and deranged, as when he gestures...
...DIED. JOHN FOWLES, 79, reclusive and experimental novelist; in Lyme Regis, England. Escaping a career in teaching, Fowles became a transatlantic cult success in the mid-'60s with The Collector, a dark novella about obsession, and the 600-page, metaphysical labyrinth of The Magus-experiments in fiction that endure despite being made into forgettable films. His surprise best seller of 1969, The French Lieutenant's Woman, may be best remembered for the windswept pairing of Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons in the 1981 screen adaptation by Harold Pinter...
...Velvet Underground. Though the music differs from earlier presentations of the play, the sentiments evoked remain the same. The sense of disconnect and longing that we see in Konstantin’s failed creative struggle is still reflected in the modern rock bands, who seek in their dark music and experimental lyrics the same “new forms” that Konstantin attempts to construct in his plays and writings. It is a strikingly effective directorial decision, connecting modern viewers to the action and reinforcing through another medium the play’s pain and conflict...
...Fallen, some 50 km northwest of Madrid, where a colossal basilica is carved into the craggy Guadarrama Mountains. There, they will lay wreaths and offer fascist salutes, as they do every year. But this time, their pilgrimage will take place in a country that is ready to confront the dark chapter of its dictatorship - and perhaps finally put to rest the legacy of Francisco Franco. After igniting a civil war in 1936 when he led a coup against Spain's democratically elected government, Franco and his Nationalist forces - aided by Germany and Italy - finally prevailed in 1939. For the next...
...open-minded and full of achievement in astronomy, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and medicine. A fascinating show at The Institute of the Arab World, the "Golden Age of Arab Sciences," concentrates on the period between the 8th and 15th centuries, when most of Europe was struggling to emerge from the Dark Ages. As this exhibition, which runs until March, demonstrates, that's when Arab scholarship was at the height of its own Enlightenment. The show focuses on a period when the Arab empire stretched from India to Spain and caliphs, like Al-Ma'mun in Baghdad, set up centers of learning...