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...Gilberto Gil could very well be a superhero. Politician by day, renowned international pop star by night…it’s what many a middle-aged man daydreams about. He is currently Brazil’s Minister of Culture, but it is no wonder the media has dubbed him the “Minister of Cool...
...when Gilberto Gil visited Harvard’s Sanders Theater last week to give a lecture on “Brazilian Cultural Policies and Social Inclusion,” the audience could hardly guess that the ridiculously cool individual standing in front of them was 62 years old. Kicking off the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies’ “Brazil Semester,” Gil energetically stood in a sharp suit, his shoulder-length dreadlocks tied back in a ponytail...
...Oscar show is preempting Housewives on ABC, and producer Gil Cates has made a number of changes aimed at goosing the ratings. Several seem cribbed from an MTV Video Music Awards show. For one thing, Oscar's stage will extend into the audience. The aisles will become performance space, and some winners will give their acceptance speeches next to their seats...
...Blood and Bones, which was adapted from a semiautobiographical novel by Korean-Japanese author Yang Sok Gil, is a departure from Sai's freewheeling, often humorous style. But the director's gutter humanism and Kitano's steely meanness fuse elegantly in their portrayal of a ruthless man who, as he builds a new life for himself in Japan, is gripped by a need to destroy what he creates. Even as we're repulsed by Kim's violence and heartlessness, we're seduced by his survivor's charisma-in fact, Kitano's performance is so compelling that Kim's victims have...
...agreeing to the physician's request to move an unrelated suit because of the adverse publicity from the Harrison incident. Set to the classic Beatles song, his ruling started "Something in the folks he treats/ Attracts bad press like no other doctor." Anyone who had forgotten why Dr. Gil Lederman was famous, has now remembered...