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...Drama queen SHANNON DOHERTY to guest on new 90210 series as drama teacher...
...despite landing in the middle of a historic legal drama, Hamdan is largely unknown to the American public. It remains unclear whether he was a dedicated lieutenant of bin Laden's--"a body man for bin Laden," as one of the government's lawyers once described him to me--or, as his defense lawyers claim, little more than a lowly foot soldier. I have been following Hamdan's story since early 2004, when I started writing a book about his case, and have spent hundreds of hours interviewing his lawyers, his family, his mentor and his interrogator. From these conversations...
...fact, it's something very different, and beautiful. It's true that Mad Men, which with FX's Damages is the first basic-cable drama to have been nominated for a Best Drama Emmy, is deliciously curated, from the omnipresent cigarettes to the rocket-cone brassieres (and casual sexism) to the cool modernist sets. But the subtle, deliberately paced drama has a wider sense of history. Don is not defined by his time. He's an American archetype of self-reinvention: a Gatsby or a Huck Finn, who lights out for the territory but cannot escape from himself...
...sheer kinetic excitement, nothing will top the explosive, elemental performances from the 1960s. Dohnanyi's Ninth boasts a strong quartet of soloists and is infused with the German maestro's unerring sense of structure and musical integrity. No cheap effects here, but, unfortunately, not a strong sense of drama either. Considering that the Ninth changed the course not only of the symphony but of German opera as well, some hint of that power would have been welcome. Beethoven: The Middle Quartets. The Melos Quartet (Deutsche Grammophon, 3 CDs). These five string quartets are less stylistically unified than the six early...
...despite landing in the center of a historic legal drama, Hamdan remains largely unknown to the American public. His story is still shrouded in mystery. It remains unclear whether he was a dedicated lieutenant of bin Laden's - "a body man for bin Laden," as one of the government's lawyers once described him to me - or, as his defense lawyers will claim, little more than a lowly foot soldier. I've been following Hamdan's story since early 2004, when I started writing a book about his case, and I have spent hundreds of hours interviewing his lawyers...