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...want to ruin our special friendship...
...grouchy cabdriver and a dissolute Jewish saxophonist strike up an uneasy friendship, with the cabby doggedly trying to reform the jazzman. TAXI BLUES doesn't sound like anything new, does it? The movie takes its story from Bertrand Tavernier's 1986 Round Midnight and its urgent, improvisatory spirit from a dozen John Cassavetes pictures. But Pavel Lounguine's drama is remarkable as the first (and perhaps last?) post-glasnost film from the Soviet Union. Lounguine proudly airs Russia's dirty laundry: the pervasive alcoholism, the anti-Semitism, the suspicion and self-destruction. Rock star Piotr Mamonov has a snaky charisma...
...everyone agrees. "It's possible that the West can work with Assad to make a better Mideast," says a senior Western diplomat in Damascus. What is not in dispute is the notion that, with or without the West's friendship, Assad would jump at the chance to become the unrivaled leader of the Pan- Arabists following Saddam's fall. Considering Assad's success in asserting Syrian control over Lebanon late last year, his room to maneuver already appears greater than it was before the crisis erupted...
Curly Sue, a Warner Bros. movie currently filming in Chicago, tells the tale of an eight-year-old girl and her friendship with a homeless man. The film's casting company, thinking it would be a good deed to hire real street people as extras, asked a local shelter for help in attracting recruits. But most of the 137 people who answered the casting call were rejected because they were considered too clean. Some recruits, hungry for a job that pays up to $90 a day, reluctantly traded in their apparel for filthy costumes. "They had me wear clothes that...
...would be unconscionable to risk so many American lives, and our economy as well, in defense of an emirate that has done nothing to merit the U.S.'s friendship in the past...