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...racist entitled to as fair a trial as a pornographer? The good people of Mississippi--all right, the bad white people--gave Byron De La Beckwith every benefit of the doubt in his 1964 trials for the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. Two hung juries and a quarter- century later, a Jackson prosecutor (Alec Baldwin, who's good in a tough role) reopens the case, goaded by Evers' widow Myrlie (Whoopi Goldberg). He has a chance: this time the gabby, unrepentant Beckwith (James Woods) is facing a jury that is largely black...
...ENGLISH PATIENT For so many European wanderlusters who found an Eden in the Sahara, the desert was a woman--dazzling, enveloping, with a vastness that held all their dreams. In such a place, just before World War II, the Hungarian aristocrat Count Laszlo de Almasy finds his ideal desert woman and follows her to hell. He then lives, just barely, to tell the tale to a ministering angel (Juliette Binoche) who can give him what he needs: not absolution but understanding. The lovers are Ralph Fiennes--all coiled sexiness, threat shrouded in hauteur--and Kristin Scott Thomas...
...Samuel Beckett, life was a painful, poignant marking of time between the crib and the crypt. But no event this year had more artistic vitality than the New York City staging by Dublin's Gate Theatre of 19 Beckett works--from the 40-second Breath to the tour-de-force Happy Days, with the great Rosaleen Linehan buried up to her wit's end in sand and self-delusion...
...image of a literal planetary nervous system was laid out a half-century ago as a kind of prophecy by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the Jesuit mystic whose writings were banned by the Roman Catholic Church. Teilhard envisioned the technological evolution of a "noosphere"--the "thinking envelope of the Earth." The noosphere, he believed, entails a "sort of etherized universal consciousness" that will lead us, at last, to an era of brotherly love. Needless to say, Teilhard has a following...
Well, maybe they were what two famous women desired. Maria Eva Ibarguren Duarte de Peron kept her eye on the spotlight, her hand tightening around the cojones of power. And Madonna fought like hell for the right to incarnate, in one of the era's most vivid musical dramas, a woman whose career and notoriety mirror her own: model for steamy photos, singer on the radio, movie actress of disputed pedigree, sexual adventurer. In both these stars one can see the great goad of ambition, the ability to enthrall and outrage. So there's tabloid poetry in the fact that...