Word: kazakhstan
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...weapons in case of confrontation" - the burly new fantasy Wanted reveals the magic that can blossom when you put a gun in the hand of a meek wage slave and tell him he was born to be a righteous killer. Directed at a pitch of gritty giddiness by the Kazakhstan-born Timur Bekmambetov, who did the DVD faves Night Watch and Day Watch, this hard-R splatter-fest about a team of sanctified assassins is also the summer's zazziest action movie...
...WITH FIREARMS: Zohan: Longs to put down the guns for the scissors of a hairstylist Borat: Announces to a giddy rodeo audience that his nation of Kazakhstan support America's "war of terror" Jesus: Threatens friends of The Dude by saying he'll steal away their guns, stick them where the sun don't shine, and "pull the trigger 'til it goes click...
...roughly as "Fairy-Tale Cottage," and the company's rise has been something of a Cinderella story. When the Russian stock market crashed in August 1998, Goncharov lost the electronics-distribution business he had started. "For the first month, I was really sad," said Goncharov, who was born in Kazakhstan and studied mathematics at Moscow State University. "Then I decided I have to start a new company." Earlier that year he had visited London and Paris, and he recognized in the sidewalk creperies a model for selling Russian blini. "I understood this was one of the great ideas," he says...
...reason they don't take offense may be simple: They see Borat less as a reflection on themselves as it is a portrait of Americans, some of whom are shown in various unflattering situations, including threatening violence against Borat. "People in Kazakhstan are curious about Americans," says Jazin...
...That curiosity is evident among the visitors to the Museum of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the new capital, Astana - a homage to Nazarbayev, who has ruled, unchallenged, for 17 years. The museum's biggest attraction for school outings and tourists alike are the gifts received by Nazarbayev from foreign leaders. And, says Leila Omarova, head of the museum's excursions department, "Everyone wants to know: What have the Americans given...