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...wasn't an insult exactly. Barbershop didn't pretend to be more than a funny movie about barbers. Moviegoers--black plus a substantial white crossover--didn't much mind, giving the Ice Cube hit a $75 million gross and inspiring a sequel--two, if you count Beauty Shop. But it was hardly ambitious, so it was surprising that Showtime would ask screenwriter John Ridley (Three Kings) to adapt it for TV. "My first reaction was, 'Oh, that's what I want to do,'" Ridley says sarcastically. "Remaking somebody else's movie--that's what I want to be remembered...
...Court was adjourned over the weekend. The lawyers retired to their respective camps on opposite sides of the valley and bombarded one another with resounding statements to the press. On the Monday when Darrow entered court, he was informed by Judge Raulston: "He who hurls contempt at my court insults the great Volunteer State, . . ." and requested to make bond for $5,000 pending a hearing for "contempt and insult...
...Environmentalists see less complement than insult?and some fear that this rival plan may deliver a fatal blow to the Kyoto Protocol. "The new pact will attempt to lure in other nations from the Asia-Pacific region and expand its influence," says Choi Seung Kook, deputy chief of the Green Korea environmental group, "until it is big enough to ignore the Kyoto treaty." Environmentalists point out that the agreement announced in Vientiane spells out no concrete goals to reduce global warming, sets no emissions targets for countries, and can't even be called a pact?the six countries merely endorsed...
...views of extremist individuals, but the stories the bombers tell are invaluable. Jeff Hayford Nashua, New Hampshire Suicide bombers can quote passages from the Koran all they want, but those who embrace violence and the killing of innocent people lack both honor and humanity. Not only are they an insult to the religion of Islam, they are a disgrace to the human race. Aaron S. Bayley Toronto The only thing I want to see inside the mind of an Iraqi suicide bomber is a bullet fired from a U.S. rifle. Why does Time give America's sworn enemies a forum...
...group Picasso’s “Guernica” with paintings and sculptures which merely exist to redraw the boundaries of art is an insult its political and artistic value. The old Spanish masters are known throughout the world and represent Spain’s rich history, culture, and artistic innovation, much like the Prado. As engaged as I was when viewing the vast collection of traditional art at the Prado and Picasso’s “Guernica” at the Reina Sofia, my piecemeal experience with Spanish art was disappointing. To exclude modern...