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CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER The knives are out at the palace, and Gong Li is staring daggers. Chinese cinema's haughtiest diva plays a 10th century Empress who is having an affair with her stepson while, she suspects, her husband (Chow Yun Fat) is slowly poisoning her. That's just for appetizers in a menu of long-lost parents, eloping lovers and the minor distraction of a civil war out in the grand courtyard...
This is high, and high-wire, melodrama. It's less soap opera than grand opera, where matters of love and death are played at a perfect fever pitch. And grand this Golden Flower...
...A.The bombing of the Golden Mosque [the Ashkariya Shrine in Samarra] in February - that changed everything. That was the most seminal moment of my entire two years here. That probably surpassed the elections in having an effect on the people. That's where we saw the rise in sectarian violence. There were other moments, like the delay in forming the government [after the Dec. 2005 elections]. We didn't have a government until June. That created a real angst in the community, as they watched this process play out. And it allowed the militias to grow without interference...
Come on…can you really imagine any other TV personality take on our own Harvey “C-minus” Mansfield and discuss the “manliness” of President Bush with Colbert-esque wry sarcasm? The repartee between the two was golden. Government concentrators, you know you wish you could have had that opportunity...
...Golden said any measures to change the current policy would be very hard to implement because lawmakers would have to determine “the value of having a child admitted to Harvard...