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Bertolucci and cinematographer Vittorio Storaro do well with the movie's scenes of debauchery and debasement. A master of capturing erotica, Bertolucci takes advantage of Pu Yi's early imperial splendor and later playboy lifestyle in Tienstin to give cinema some of the most sensual images since Bertolucci's own...
"Perhaps the most important result of this research," says Peter Goodfellow, of London's Imperial Cancer Research Fund, whose lab had predicted the gene's location, "is that it could provide a model system for development in general." Explains UCLA's Shapiro: "It's not just a question of triggering...
In the late 15th century, the Russian state coalesced between the lands of the Tartars and the Lithuanians. Under Ivan III, its seat was Moscow and its heart the onion-domed fortress known as the Kremlin. Within this medieval city rose cathedrals and palaces teeming with frescos of Christian martyrs...
But the gravest sins of the imperial brats are committed against China's tradition of filial piety. When little Minmin's parents asked their only son to empty the family chamber pot, he poured out only a third of the contents. "I've done my part," Minmin said. "You're...
In Empire of the Sun, the boy is James Graham, eleven-year-old son of an English merchant in Shanghai at the first shell burst of World War II in the Pacific. Behind the camera is Jim's spiritual cousin, Steven Spielberg, 39. Spielberg's trials of the past couple...