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...about whether you're on his side or Rummy's side," says a senior official. "Powell's doing a job, a hard job. It shouldn't be an opportunity to play a political game." Even so, Powell's aides were frustrated to hear that an Administration hawk had told TIME the hard-liners are "looking past Arafat" to new Palestinian leaders. "You could do that theoretically," says a close Powell aide. "But Arafat's the person everybody's going to have to do business with, like it or not." Powell's determination to meet with Arafat--despite Arafat's refusal...
...more general terms, however, many of the patterns deviate little from previous years. Ridley Scott received his apologetic Black Hawk Down director nom for not winning for Gladiator last year, the brilliant Mulholland Drive was saluted for David Lynch’s sake despite being shafted in other major categories, Russell Crowe will probably win again as another apology for not grabbing a statue for The Insider (his only really great performance to date) and most surprisingly Baz Luhrmann was ignored for Moulin Rouge, despite the fact that it contained the most rigorous, interesting direction of the year...
...marks the first time in many years that Americans have died in battle on a foreign field without a sense of outrage and shame at home. After 18 Army Rangers and special forces died at the battle of Mogadishu in 1993--the subject of the film Black Hawk Down--some relatives of the dead thought their sons had been betrayed by their political leaders, while many citizens felt guilty about allowing men to be placed in danger for an ill-defined purpose...
...marks the first time in many years that Americans have died in battle on a foreign field without a sense of outrage and shame at home. After 18 Army Rangers and special forces died at the battle of Mogadishu in 1993?the subject of the film Black Hawk Down?some relatives of the dead thought their sons had been betrayed by their political leaders, while many citizens felt guilty about allowing men to be placed in danger for an ill-defined purpose...
...Black Hawk Down CRITICISM It used real aircraft, but the film cut the number of men defending the chopper and put names on the helmets?a practice discontinued years ago. Somali casualties remain nameless. RESPONSE Director Ridley Scott was worried that the audience would lose track of the characters. No comment from the studio about the portrayal of Somalis...