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...who gave movie bad taste a good name finally has his own boxed set, with eight features (The Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, To Be or Not to Be, History of the World, Part I and Robin Hood: Men in Tights)--virtually the entire canon, minus The Producers. Most of those are extensions of the genre parodies Brooks and other early-TV geniuses wrote for Sid Caesar. The gags are hit-and-miss, but when they hit, you feel them in your gut. And each film has at least one shining moment, whether...
...received a warm welcome from Congressional Republicans. But over the past two weeks, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her undersecretary who negotiated the nuclear cooperation deal, Nicholas Burns, have been treated like used-car dealers, with wary legislative customers insisting on kicking the tires and checking under the hood before they buy what the two are selling. When Rice had a private meeting with International Relations Committee Chairman Henry Hyde on March 9, the longtime Illinois representative said that as a courtesy he would introduce the bill the Administration wanted to amend the Atomic Energy Act, but he warned...
Tsotsi Directed by Gavin Hood Miramax Films By MOLLIE K. WRIGHT CONTRIBUTING WRITER ?We may have foreign language films, but our stories are the same as your stories. They’re about the human heart and emotion,? director Gavin Hood said Sunday in his acceptance speech for his cinematic creation “Tsotsi,”? this year’s Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film Hood, who both wrote and directed “Tsotsi,”? communicates this vast power of ?human heart and emotion? through a hardened man?...
...great view of the 'hood (and a nosy peek at residents' backyards), climb the 216-m-high, Soviet rocket-like TV tower to its indoor viewing deck. Crawling up and down the tower's pillars are provocateur Czech artist David Cerny's large black babies?definitely more David Lynch than Merchant Ivory. 1 Mahlerovy sady...
...starring role in the surreal U.S. kids' TV show H.R. Pufnstuf in 1969. But adult acting roles dried up as he struggled with alcoholism in later years. After giving up drinking in the 1980s, Wild appeared in a series of bit parts, including a supporting role in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves...