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...future. And, if new discussions for a movie of Midnight's Children bear fruit - Rushdie says one Hollywood studio is sending people to see a preview of the play in London and another is reading the script - he might even resurrect his long-dormant acting ambitions: "I shall insist on a role!" In the meantime, he's looking forward to the opening at the Barbican. "I love the new possibilities that an audience will bring to the work," he says. "Midnight's Children has been read by lots of people individually, but it's never been read collectively before...
...intelligence gathering. After his star turn as prime-time war boss last fall, Rumsfeld spent much of this year defending the Administration's meager efforts to rebuild Afghanistan--and then selling America on the threat posed by Iraq. Careful that Bush not be seen as an extremist, Pentagon aides insist Rumsfeld has actually restrained the march toward war championed by his hawkish deputies, who are busy pushing for stepped-up covert propaganda efforts--even inside friendly countries. --By Mark Thompson
Twain has chosen commercial success over artistic success because art comes from our hearts and souls, and it is obvious Shania has no soul. If she did, it would come through in her music. Lange and Shania have capitalized on her looks and body. Shania continues to insist that what she does has something to do with music. What a joke! MAGGIE JORDAN St. Louis...
Some people spread it on lightly buttered toast as a holiday treat. Others wrap it in blinis with a dollop of sour cream. But purists insist that the best way to eat beluga caviar is straight off the spoon, followed by a shot of vodka or a sip of ice-cold champagne. For those who can afford to shell out $100 or more an ounce, these precious salted sturgeon eggs are a taste of what life was like for the Russian czars and czarinas who feasted regularly on fine caviar...
Still, the film, which was funded partially by a number of Islamic foundations, tries too hard. When the Muslims in Medina murder 700 Jews, up pops a commentator to insist that Muhammad was not anti-Semitic. When the Prophet allows his followers to take up to four wives, the film stresses that he was, for his time, something of a feminist. When Muhammad leads his troops into battle, it is explained that he did so only because there was no alternative...