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John Updike once said Vladimir Nabokov wrote prose the only way it should be written: ecstatically. That's the way the Coltrane quartet plays here. The four-part suite, composed to celebrate Coltrane's spiritual triumph over drug addiction, ranges hypnotically from a meditative murmur to fierce shrieks, with Coltrane's tenor sax surging to astonishing inventiveness and intensity. The 1964 album staked out frontiers of harmony, rhythm and structure that musicians are still exploring today...
...about McCarthyism and about what Murrow did, the story struck me as very relevant to what's going on today with this Administration and things like the Patriot Act," says Canadian-born Skoll. Nonetheless, Skoll also passed on making the script, which George Clooney had originally cowritten as a four-part television show. But when Skoll spent time with Clooney in Dubai during the filming of Syriana, the two talked for hours about history. Clooney explained his vision for the film, frame by frame, and Skoll was sold. He believed the film would meld with Participant's grandiose mission...
...four-part movie may seem like just another Cleese farce, but it has a serious purpose. Its intended audience includes corporate executives, and the biting humor drives home a forceful message: managers cannot do a decent job, or expect their subordinates to do one, if they have not organized their time and set clear priorities and performance standards. The film is one of more than 70 corporate training films produced by Video Arts, a London company that Cleese helped start in 1972. Over the years, Cleese has instructed bosses on everything from running meetings to conducting interviews with prospective employees...
...bombing attack in Beirut. The first attack on a prominent Lebanese opposition figure since the killing of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in February, it came less than a week after the anti-Syrian opposition won a clear victory in the first round of Lebanon's four-part parliamentary elections. Syria, still influential despite its April withdrawal of troops under intense international pressure, denied involvement in the murder, which reignited national outrage and prompted calls for the resignation of Lebanese President and Syria ally Emile Lahoud...
...Anycall mobile phones, which the Samsung ads claim can be used anywhere in the world--with the possible exception of North Korea, where citizens need government permission to even talk to foreigners. "It's symbolic," says Lee Jeong Eun, a spokeswoman for Cheil Communications, the Samsung affiliate producing the four-part ad series. "North Korea is the closest country to us, but we can't call there...