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...neighborhood. The drive-ins had closed down and there wasn't the direct-to-video market yet, so there wasn't much of a home for movies like that. I also remember getting a lot of Hitchcock with my parents and discovering Robert Altman, which was huge for me. Watching McCabe and Mrs. Miller for the first time - when I thought I knew what a Western was - totally redefined the genre...
Absolutely. I think these last 10 years have seen just a huge shift in the psyche of this country as regards gay people. I think AIDS had a lot to do with it. So many families who really believed they'd "never met one" were suddenly confronted with their sons becoming ill, and friends of sons. I think that brought a lot of it into the open. Certainly groups like ACT UP [and] Larry Kramer brought a lot of it into the open. But I think there also has just been a willingness on the parts of people like myself...
...Iyer makes a common mistake in assuming that the Chinese government gives a whit about the world's opinion. It doesn't. The Olympics is a huge public-relations exercise for domestic consumption. The majority of Chinese will see on TV only happy, smiling, competitors (with no doubt a huge proportion of Chinese winners) and none of the debate regarding freedom or human right. The poor and disenfranchised will not benefit from the Games; on the contrary, many have suffered directly because of the ill-considered decision to hand the Olympics to China. Karen Ho, Coolum, Queensland...
...signs of Beijing's power are all around. Kashgar and the huge province of Xinjiang to which it belongs to are, by decree of the Chinese Communist Party, on Beijing time, even though geographically the city should be two hours behind the national capital. Han Chinese make up about a quarter of Kashgar's population, and markers announcing the route of the Olympic flame, which passed through here in June, line the streets. Banners hang that read, "All ethnicities hand in hand welcome the Olympics." This week, however, some locals may have decided they wanted none of Beijing's Games...
...Koro from Kuyera, where he was caring for his daughter Ramete, 6, to Gode village for the funeral of a neighbor's child. Koro said 20 children had died in Gode. The surrounding fields were overflowing with abundance. On the drive in, we passed a roadside auction for potatoes, huge yellow boulders stuffed 50 kg to a sack. When I asked Koro why people didn't kill the goats, cows and chickens that roamed the village to save their children, he replied: "Look, maybe one or two of your children get sick every year. But if you kill your animals...