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...betrayal want independence but fight each other more ferociously than anyone else. As the overseer of the Kurd safe haven established after the 1991 Gulf War, the U.S. is only tangentially involved, its main interest in the messy struggle being to provide a counterweight--or deliver a coup de grace--against Saddam. Handed an engraved invitation to regain some power in his own northern territory, Saddam saw his opportunity and took...
...Allison Anders' Grace of My Heart, there's little doubt that the tale of Denise Waverly (Illeana Douglas), who in the early '60s marries a young lyricist (Eric Stoltz) and with him writes a lot of Top 10 hits, is based on the early career of Carole King, who with her husband Gerry Goffin composed some of the best hits--Will You Love Me Tomorrow?, One Fine Day, The Loco-Motion, A Natural Woman--ever to emerge from the Brill Building. Then Anders adds a fantasy Newlywed Game: What if King had married Brian Wilson (Matt Dillon) at his loopiest...
...quasi-musicals are set in the '60s: Grace of My Heart, in which a songwriter very much like Carole King meets a songwriter very much like Brian Wilson; and That Thing You Do! with writer-director Tom Hanks playing a record-label exec who manages a one-hit pop group. Both films boast new songs composed in period style. And The Preacher's Wife will offer Whitney Houston putting over surefire spirituals with a gospel choir. That's the kind of musical both Variety and Billboard can understand...
...avoid TV. With all six networks--the big four plus the fledglings the WB and UPN--going head to head with fall programming for the first time, Wednesday will be the busiest night ever on TV. Viewers will be barraged with a choice of 23 shows ranging from Grace Under Fire to Star Trek: Voyager. Overload? Not according to scheduling executives, who believe they have manipulated time slots so effectively that they will be able to call very specific segments of the viewing public their...
...objection is simple: Christopher Reeve is an inspiring figure of rare grace and courage, but what exactly is the political point he is making? (If he is objecting to the paucity of federal research on spinal injury, that's a point against the Clinton Administration.) Keynote speaker Evan Bayh no doubt still feels the loss of his mother's death from cancer. You cannot be human without empathizing with his grief. You also cannot help asking what that loss has to do with making a case that Democrats deserve the presidency. Did George Bush deserve election because he lost...