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...Reported by Bernard Baumohl and Jane Van Tassel/New York, Edward W. Desmond and Satsuki Oba/Tokyo, Bruce Van Voorst/Bonn and Adam Zagorin/ Washington
...Dream" recalls the current musical "Sunset Boulevard": Dunaway's aging beauty seduces Depp's innocence, only to be duped by him later. Though "Dream" predates Dunaway's dismissal from the New York production of "Sunset," her Elaine gives us insight into her much-discussed potential as screen-diva Norma Desmond. Dunaway's Elaine is stronger than Norma, escaping into her Hollywood fantasies, ever could be. She conceals a murderous tendency behind her spitfire facade...
...overwhelming sensation is one of cognitive dissonance. The spectacle no longer sits well with me. I won't be complicit in what is a ritualized, institutionally sanctioned, demonization of women and, worse, pay to see bodies refracted through that prism of distortion. And besides, why look like Norma Desmond, if you don't absolutely have...
...disaster on the scale of the Japan earthquake is a human tragedy, but for journalists it also becomes a mundane problem of logistics. When the first reports came in from Kobe last Tuesday, Tokyo bureau chief Edward Desmond dispatched reporter Irene Kunii to the scene. As the death toll rose by dozens an hour, Desmond packed extra sweaters and computer batteries and headed south himself, with photographer Greg Davis and interpreter Yoshihiko Asai. They could fly only as close as Osaka, where roads were clogged with relief-effort vehicles and people hoping to rescue family members...
...Desmond, who has been with Time for 11 years, is known for his analytical talents, whether pulling together disparate material, as he did in covering the North Korean nuclear-inspection debacle, or thinking beyond immediate events, as when he outlined the implications of President Kim Il Sung's death. But he has reported on catastrophes too, from Afghanistan to Northern Ireland...