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...Michael Frayn play about former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt that just opened on Broadway. The play won nearly unanimous critical raves in London, walked away with major awards and promised to provide Broadway with at least one prestige dramatic hit of the season. But Democracy is one British import that doesn't survive the crossing...
Democracy seems especially pallid in a year when political drama has had a bracing revival. Plays like Guantánamo: 'Honor Bound to Defend Freedom'--another British import, about the treatment of detainees at the U.S. naval base in Cuba--have built compelling drama out of real-life interviews and transcripts, while such anti-Bush works as Sam Shepard's new The God of Hell, a caustic parable about a nefarious government agent terrorizing a Wisconsin farm couple, give off the sparks of real political anger. By comparison, the polite, political-science-class dramatics of Democracy seem as outmoded...
...critical step toward ending the Islamic regime's nuclear brinkmanship. Talks aimed at reaching a permanent understanding are scheduled to start in mid-December. The mullahs have agreed to freeze a variety of activities involving uranium enrichment and plutonium separation, which the West interprets as including the manufacture, import and testing of centrifuges. In return, Iran accepted various sweeteners, such as potential cooperation in economic, security and even nuclear matters that could one day reduce the country's isolation from the West...
...anniversary of the original release of Do They Know It's Christmas?, and Geldof's resurrection of the song--featuring contemporary stars like Robbie Williams and Chris Martin from Coldplay--came out in Europe last week and is a hit again (it's available in the U.S. as an import at music chain stores and as a download from bandaid20.com) Proceeds will again help starving Africans, especially those in Sudan's Darfur region, where fighting between rebels and government-backed militias has left 70,000 dead and more than 2 million homeless in what Washington calls genocide. The new version...
Remember The Ring? It was originally a Japanese horror film. Since its phenomenal success, movie remakes have become the hottest Asian import since Hello Kitty. This year’s The Grudge will soon be followed by American versions of blockbusters like My Sassy Girl and Infernal Affairs. The man who singlehandedly started this trend, film producer Roy Lee, explained to The Guardian how The Ring’s success led him to an epiphany: “I thought, ‘That was too easy—I should check the other movies made there...