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...Toronto. Except that this one is sharper, crueler, way funnier - part parody, part exposé, especially in an eight-minute take of the star in closeup, where Van Damme makes a confession of his personal and career sins, and the tough guy ends up crying. It is the finest, most scab-pulling performance I saw in Toronto, and it should earn JCVD a commercial showcase in the States...
...This is civil disobedience at its finest.' MEGAN DAVY, Chicago resident, after hundreds of high school students skipped their first day of classes to protest financial disparities in Illinois' public education...
...warmth and generosity of the people. Though Tehran may be the country's cosmopolitan capital, if you want a sense of Iran's human soul, head to the city of Isfahan at the foot of the Zagros Mountains. Home to some of the Islamic world's finest architecture, Isfahan is a living, breathing work of art - and a must for first-time visitors to the country...
...Over the years, Schweik has been the model for dozens of fictional characters - among them Yossarian in Catch-22 - and he was a particularly favored template for the Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal, who was Menzel's friend and collaborator for decades. Menzel's finest film, Closely Watched Trains, which won the foreign film Academy Award in 1967, was based on a Hrabal story about a feckless railroad worker who entirely by accident becomes a hero during World War II. I Served the King of England, the Czech Republic's entry for the 2008 Academy Awards, is very much a part...
...third story in this volume - charts the melancholy end of their relationship. Ming is now seeing Chen - another student and someone, as we find out later in the collection, whom she will marry - while Fitzgerald is left behind in Ottawa to retake his exams. In the finest story in the book, Night Flight, we see Fitzgerald, now a medevac doctor with an incipient drinking problem, fly to Guatemala to rescue a young man who has had a stroke. Tightly sprung and impeccably paced, the story's devastating ending is followed by a coda of such searing yet sympathetic honesty that...