Word: ganges
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...hour or so, The Majestic looks like the perfect post-Sept. 11 Christmas card. In repose, Carrey has the right face for this role: handsome-ordinary and lightly fretful. He and an over-the-hill gang of character actors (especially Landau, who does winsome as well as any 70-year-old) ground their fable in Golden Age geniality. But the story has to carry way too much weight, as war remorse battles McCarthyism. The Majestic's makers don't get what made Capra movies invigorating: a ferocious pace and the realization that even the nicest townsfolk have weaknesses and venalities...
DIED. JOHN GUEDEL, 88, workaholic producer of popular '40s and '50s shows like Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life and Art Linkletter's People Are Funny; in Los Angeles. Before meeting Linkletter in 1941, Guedel got his start writing for TV's Laurel and Hardy and Our Gang comedies...
Since George W. Bush took over the White House, Blair has founded his foreign policy on achieving trust with Washington's new gang of Texan-accented unilateralists. He disagrees with Bush on many topics, from the Kyoto climate change accords to how hard to lean on Israel. But he figured the place to influence this self-absorbed bunch was from inside, so he noisily backed Bush on nuclear missile defense and told Europeans to take the idea seriously...
...TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG Ned Kelly, an Australian outlaw who was eventually captured, tried and hanged for murder in 1880, still remains a Down Under hero and legend. He left behind some papers, which Australian-born author Peter Carey deftly incorporates into an exculpatory fictional autobiography of enormous imaginative power, the story of a normally flawed man driven to desperate acts for the sake, ultimately thwarted, of self-defense...
True History of the Kelly Gang Ned Kelly, an Australian outlaw who was eventually captured, tried and hanged for murder in 1880, still remains a Down Under hero and legend. He left behind some papers, which Australian-born author Peter Carey deftly incorporates into an exculpatory fictional autobiography of enormous imaginative power, the story of a normally flawed man driven to desperate acts for the sake, ultimately thwarted, of self-defense...