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...Last Emperor...
...this is not an outtake from one of Calvin Klein's erotic "Obsession" commercials or a Duran Duran video. This luscious footage comes direct from Bernardo Bertolucci's latest film, The Last Emperor...
Best remebered for Last Tango in Paris, Italian director Bertolucci makes a triumphant return to the screen, this time chronicling the life of China's last emperor, Pu Yi (John Lone). Starting from the emperor's ascension to the throne at the age of three, Bertolucci covers nearly 60 years of Pu Yi's life in a three-hour extravaganza...
...hundreds of thousands had already starved to death before the government admitted to a famine. And Mengistu, a former army major with a tendency toward the grandiose, was widely denounced for spending an estimated $100 million to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the revolution that deposed Emperor Haile Selassie. There are signs he may be curbing his spendthrift ways: in September, when the country was renamed the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Mengistu opted for a cocktail party instead of a banquet...
Though Mengistu is widely blamed for the disaster, the series of famines actually began in 1973, under the inept and autocratic Emperor Haile Selassie. Far from seeking help, the Ethiopian government in the 1970s strenuously denied that any famine existed, and U.N. officials diplomatically remained silent about the tragedy...