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...GENIUS IN CHARGE 2001's Moulin Rouge!, a fever dream that weaves together can-can dances, Elton John songs and lots of close-ups of Nicole Kidman's never-ending legs, could only have come from one man's brain. "You could only do that with a Baz," says Meron, meaning Australian director Baz Luhrman. "It's all about his expression as an artist." Burton, an equally idiosyncratic artistic mind, is at work on this year's Sweeney Todd. Some of us are very eager to see what Edward Scissorhands does to meat pies...
...tiny raft, made of fine gold - a model of the ceremony on the lake - is the Mona Lisa of the collection, kept in a darkened chamber. You can only marvel at the genius of the ancient artisans who crafted this and the equally incandescent jewelry, masks, breastplates (pictured), figurines, urns and - my favorites - funky animal sculptures in the museum...
...Romario's quest for the symbolic 1,000th goal has been a lesson in malandragem, as the way of the malandro is known. There is no question he was the greatest goal scorer of his generation, a "creative, straightforward, genius, goal-scoring superstar," in the words of top sports columnist and former Pele World Cup-winning teammate Tostao. Wherever he played, he scored: at home in Brazil, with top European clubs such as Barcelona, and on the international stage, where his genius was crucial to his country's 1994 World Cup victory...
...Century Fox, MySpace and the Times of London. The man has shown a remarkable ability to sniff opportunity where others don't. But he is 76, he won't be around forever, and it's hard to say what News Corp. will be in the absence of his controversial genius. Quite possibly, it will be yet another family media business that stops being a family business...
...Emperor was put on trial and charged-quite inaccurately-with being the evil genius behind an international Muslim conspiracy stretching from Constantinople, Mecca and Iran to the walls of the Red Fort in Delhi. Contrary to all the evidence that the uprising broke out first among the overwhelmingly Hindu sepoys, the British prosecutor argued that "to Musalman intrigues and Mohammedan conspiracy we may mainly attribute the dreadful calamities of the year 1857." Like some of the ideas propelling more recent adventures in the East, this was a bigoted oversimplification of a complex reality...