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...meaningful political reforms now or even when Fidel eventually dies. Instead, he is widely expected to push China-style economic liberalization, the kind of pragmatic programs, like opening to foreign tourism investment, that he has orchestrated in small, subtle increments to help Cuba survive post-Cold War. Cuba's epic economic inefficiencies are his pet peeve; and when he took the microphone last July 26 in Fidel's place, he gushed less about socialism's glories and railed more at the country's "deficiencies, errors and indolent bureaucratic attitudes." As a result, many expect one of his first major policy...
...marching drums and dreamlike chanting, leads into what could be British Sea Power’s most instantly likable song since 2003’s “Remember Me.” Second track “Lights Out For Darker Skies” is a post-punk epic featuring crashing cymbals and descending guitar lines, ending with an optimistic call and response proclaiming, “Hey now, now / Oh, the future’s bright.” At six and a half minutes in length, the song is unlikely to be released as a single...
...slightly worse lighting, defective editing, and awkward crowd surfing. As the band plays on a stage lined by flailing arms and hands, the camera randomly freezes the action into what resembles Warhol-esque snapshots. Yet these stills only remind the audience that The Bravery will probably never reach the epic proportions that made Elvis a legitimate subject for pop art. Interestingly, the video marks lead singer Endicott’s directorial debut. It’s all coming together now. After some lame head-bobbing, Endicott crowd-surfs, or rather his superimposed, orange-tinted head digitally slides across...
...This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] Should Win Shouldn't Win No Country for Old Men A finely twisted horror-crime-western film that moves beyond genre There Will Be Blood Geysers of hype fuel this oilman epic. But psychologically, it's a big, dry well Johnny Depp Sweeney Todd He's fierce, wondrous, haunted, funny, scary--and on key Daniel Day-Lewis There Will Be Blood A superb actor in an opaque role--it's all snarl, no soul Julie Christie Away from Her She radiates the vague cunning of dementia, its creeping oblivion Marion...
...just 30. That leaves those two sassy outsiders--Joel Coen, 53, and his brother Ethan, 50--in the mainstream, though their entry, No Country for Old Men, carries the double-whammy genre curse of being a kind of western-horror movie. Can it beat out Anderson's parched epic or Reitman's new-family-values comedy? Its other competition: Michael Clayton, with George Clooney agonizing handsomely in a story about nasty business ethics (a favorite Academy theme, so the movie has a chance of winning), and Atonement, which fits the old tradition of quality, as a period romance in which...