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...comedy Clerks. Now these twentysomething phenoms are flouting the sophomore slump--the Hugheses with the epic-size Dead Presidents, Smith with the loosey-goosey comedy Mallrats. Joining them in the ambition to reach a wider audience is gay cult fave Gregg Araki, who gives his new tragi-comedy, The Doom Generation, the cunning subtitle "a heterosexual movie." The director of the homo-erratic dramas The Living End and Totally F***ed Up is itching to break out, on his own terms. But straight or gay, black or white, these directors are defining the rage and wild wit of their peers...
Araki is the latest to emerge from the underground of gay filmmakers, after Todd Haynes (Safe) and Gus Van Sant (To Die For). But Hollywood will find it hard to assimilate him. The Doom Generation is Araki's fifth feature, and his way of maturing is to get more ferocious, with a twisted smile on his face. The road-movie plot is similar to The Living End's: a dishy, disturbed guy hitches a ride and raises hell with guns and other toys. The troublemaker is Xavier Red (Johnathon Schaech)--call him X, as in sex--and when he hooks...
...CARLOS: If any art form would seem at home with tragedy, it would be opera--yet even Verdi wasn't above the altered ending. In his 1867 opera, Don Carlos, a full-throated tale of royal intrigue, the titular tenor is saved from doom by heavenly intervention. In the 1787 Schiller play on which the opera is based, Don Carlos is handed over to the Spanish inquisition--by his own father...
...Israel," reports TIME's Jamil Hamad from the West Bank. "I fear, however, that the Israelis are underestimating the effect of the restrictions themselves on Palestinians. These measures may do more harm than good: they are building anger and frustration among the Palestinians, which could lead to violence and doom the peace process. Palestinians are asking themselves, 'What good is a peace if I cannot earn a living?'" The killing of Shakaki in Malta last Thursday was detailed in two Israeli newspapers today. Shakaki was shot to death in front of his hotel after he returned from a shopping trip...
...step closer to a less expansive version of the law. In one of its most controversial provisions, it would eliminate a requirement that the entire habitats of endangered species, not just the individual creatures, must be protected. Young says the change will protect property owners; environmentalists say it will doom animals. Even in his gentler moments, Young's distaste for elitist environmentalists is clear: he once called them a ''waffle-stomping, Harvard-graduating, intellectual bunch of idiots...