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...Manhattan stop or later this year in Chicago, Boston, Washington and Atlanta. Saltimbanco (an Italian term meaning "street performer") will leave no one untouched and few unprodded or untweaked. A visitor may discover a sobbing clown in his lap or find herself in an impromptu troupe of somersaulters. One gent was lured onstage to safari through an invisible jungle, then high-noon it in a sham shootout...
...Step by step, you give up everything in your life," says Lisa Gent, an Australian whose son Peter and daughter Nicole are believed to be with Koresh, as well as Nicole's two children who were fathered by Koresh. "You begin to live for a pat on the head," adds Lisa's husband Bruce. Ex-cult members warn that some Davidians would do anything for their leader. Australian James Thom recalls Koresh asking him one day, "How far are you prepared to go?" When Thom looked puzzled, Koresh asked, "Which of your two children are you prepared to sacrifice...
...members that he often did so. Though he is reported to have urged his flock last Easter to prepare for mass suicide, he now insists that they will not turn their guns upon themselves. But people who know them well are not reassured. Say the worried Lisa and Bruce Gent: "They will kill for him." And Koresh, a man caught up in a dream of the Apocalypse, may be ready to die as well...
...nice, you may be thinking. A Mexican-American filmmaker -- not enough of those. And thrifty too. Rodriguez, the third of 10 children of a nurse and a sales manager for a cookware firm, does seem an exemplary gent. To impress on his younger siblings the value of an education, he has resolved to take the last three courses he needs for his University of Texas degree. But goodwill doesn't make a good film. And one of El Mariachi's zestful pleasures is that you can enjoy it without awarding it affirmative-action points. It's a real movie, high...
...these songs runs just 2 min. 45 sec., and most of the others are longer only because they repeat their choruses exactly as many times as you want to hear them. Best of all, no drum solos; the world's most famous percussionist was always a modest gent. Here he jollies things along with his tentative voice and 4/4 pummeling...