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...Simon Yam. Yam and his jackbooted troops spend most of the film terrorizing helpless criminal punks, who are only too eager to sell each other out. They're on the lookout for a gun lost by Detective Lo (Suet Lam), an obese bumbler who makes Inspector Clouseau look like Gil Grissom from...
TECHNOLOGY-INFUSED TUNES. Classical music is intertwined with technology when the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) showcases its unique stylings. The performances is a continuation of the series “Who’s afraid of technology?” and is hosted by Gil Rose, the conductor of BMOP. Wednesday, April 23 at 7 p.m. Ticekts $10. Club Passim, 47 Palmer...
...Russian Program” featuring Prokofiev’s “Lt. Kije,” Kabalevsky’s “Colus Bergeron Overture,” and Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibiton,” with guest conductor Gil Rose. Friday, April 4, at 8 pm. Tickets $13/$11/$8 general, $10/$8/$6 students (2 per ID). Series tickets available at $38/$32/$23 general, $29/$23/$17 students, and $10/$8/$6 for groups of ten or more, from the Harvard Box Office (617) 496-2222. Sanders Theatre...
...Harvard graduate and former president of BankBoston. Welfare Minister Benedita da Silva rose from a squalid Rio de Janeiro favela, or slum, and was Brazil's first black female Senator, while Vice President José Alencar is a textile multimillionaire from the right-wing Liberal Party. Culture Minister Gilberto Gil, a pop music star, sports dreadlocks; Chief of Staff José Dirceu wears power suits and helped guide Lula from labor socialist to the more centrist "Brazilian Blair," as Brazilian and Wall Street pundits have taken to calling him. So far the mix of social crusade and fiscal discipline...
...mounted a makeshift stage and, like a lead singer introducing his band, presented his ministers to the crowd of 7,000. Polite applause greeted the parade of bureaucrats - but then Lula called on his Culture Minister and the applause turned into a roar. For more than 30 years Gilberto Gil has been one of the two biggest pop stars in Brazil - a man whose music is as powerful and transporting as it is popular. Now, as the country's Minister of Culture, he is ready to work behind the scenes. As if to prove it, he soaked up the adoration...