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...messed-up guy. This movie is not for the light-hearted, and intentionally interchanges between the blithe and the bloody. In one scene, Smoochy will be getting jiggy with it and in the next, a mobster will be headed toward axe-decapitation. The witty one-liners, harsh physical comedy and dark, biting tone force the audience to laugh out loud while squirming in their seats...
...silicone, Spears and Timberlake are just two kids who fell in love. However, their celebrity status, a demanding public and a hounding media prevented their relationship from being anything close to normal. Although the love was their own, everyone but them controlled how it was presented under the harsh lights of fame. Aren’t they lucky...
...Israeli-Palestinian issue trampled the Vice President's agenda. At a joint press conference in Yemen with Cheney and President Ali Abdullah Saleh, the Yemeni leader lambasted Israel and opposed U.S. action against Iraq. But when a U.S. interpreter briefed reporters on Saleh's remarks, he omitted the harsh details. U.S. officials blamed Sharon for inciting the Arabs just as Cheney was trying to woo them. "Let's just say," a senior official said, "that he did not coordinate his actions with...
...leadership to send in the tanks. (A large number of the uncounted victims of that slaughter were workers on the avenues around Tiananmen; in the crackdown that followed, only workers faced execution. Students received jail terms.) These days, those who challenge China's single, official labor union still face harsh penalties. Cao Maobing, for example, tried to set up a union at his state-run silk mill in eastern China's Jiangsu province two years ago. Local officials apparently decided that was a lunatic idea: Cao was involuntarily committed to an insane asylum for six months and abandoned organizing...
...somehow his performance in the revival matches the wit or intensity of William Daniels’ original portrayal. It matters that in the second Broadway revival of Cabaret, Alan Cumming delivers the shocking final line of “If You Could See Her” as a harsh whisper, whereas Joel Grey sings it in the original production...