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...same shooting gallery, and this production also copies its 2004 predecessor by merging the roles of the Balladeer—the show’s singing narrator—and Lee Harvey Oswald. Last Friday’s production may have come off without any major hitch, but there was a nagging feeling that the sparks didn’t fly, that it never reached out to rough up the prevailing mood of Hope and Change. Some directorial risk-taking would have helped.Still, the main thing about “Assassins” is the assassins, and this cast...
...final hitch may be the perennial problem of who gets credit for the plan once it is agreed on. Several sources stressed that the deal's rollout, whenever it occurs, would come from the White House, not the agencies who were negotiating the details...
...rquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. Winfrey's picks boosted sales: Penguin ordered 800,000 more copies of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina after the 19th-Century Russian novel got the nod. But much of the publishing industry was dismayed at missing the chance to hitch their latest books - and their profits - to Oprah's train. It didn't help that the classics she picked didn't make for great television, the way contemporary authors did - who had the telegenic advantage of being alive...
...script, which Harris and Robert Knott have fashioned from Robert B. Parker's novel, Virgil and his sidekick Everett Hitch (Viggo Mortensen) have come to Appaloosa to cleanse it of the violence, intimidation and corruption of Bragg and his men. That they will achieve their goal is virtually a given: How many times, in a standard western, has the bad guy won? (About as many times as the richest man in town has also been the most sympathetic.) What's at issue is not the speed of Virgil's hand but the intelligence of this cowboy's heart...
...DreamWorks SKG is waiting for a $500-million deal with Indian entertainment conglomerate Reliance to close. It would allow the company behind movies like Tropic Thunder and Transformers to abandon an unhappy partnership with Viacom's Paramount Pictures and produce six films a year at another studio. The hitch keeping DreamWorks and Reliance from sealing the deal is the challenge of raising an additional several hundred million dollars in debt financing at a time when Wall Street is feeling pretty stingy about extending credit...