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...archetypal destiny of our times: a boy born in a peasant village in a world that had scarcely seen a wheel has ended up confronting the great forces of the day--exile, global travel and, especially, the mass media; and a man from a culture known as the "Forbidden Kingdom" now faces machine guns on the one hand and Chinese discos around the Potala Palace on the other. While Tibet is eroded in its homeland, it threatens to be commodified--or turned into an exotic accessory--abroad...
...leads the toy soldiers into battle against the mice. With a little help from Clara, he defeats the mouse king and is transformed by Drosselmeyer into a handsome prince. After a lovely interlude in a snowy forest, Clara and her nutcracker travel in a magic balloon to the Kingdom of Sweets, where they are greeted by the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier and regaled by an array of exotic divertissements, ending with a beautiful pas de deux by their hosts...
...other church-goers. Still, I think it is unfair to represent religion, or pious agnosticism, as a ready-made answer to American individualism. Moreover, while church attendance may be good for society, it is unclear whether wide-scale doubt is equally good. Miles fails to show us what a kingdom of doubters would look like, if that is indeed where we are headed...
Jackson and the prince may be one of the strangest pairings in show business, but Alwaleed seems to be making it work. Last year he and the Gloved One set up a fifty-fifty venture called Kingdom Entertainment that led to an important deal with Sony, Jackson's record label. Jackson will serve as producer for a new label called MJJ (for Michael J. Jackson), which will release CDs by new singers and groups. The Alwaleed-Jackson company also acquired 55% ownership of Landmark Entertainment Group, famous for such design projects as the Forum shops at Caesars Palace...
Jackson has plenty of new moves in mind. They include a Kingdom Entertainment movie starring himself, to be filmed next year and, not surprisingly, exploiting his and the prince's shared interest in theme parks; the prince already owns 24% of Disneyland Paris...