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...gunfight, along with one hostage, 32-year-old engineer Wang Peng, who died of gunshot wounds. His fellow captive Wang Ende, 49, was rescued alive. Meanwhile, Mesud was several kilometers away, in touch with his men via radio. Before he escaped the area, Mesud told journalists invited to his lair: "We will fight America and its allies until...
...first shots of the film pan around a dusty attic, presenting bleached skulls and archaeological trinkets like a still life on a conveyor belt, until the camera settles on Henry Lair (Caine). Henry, the ailing patriarch of the fragmented Lair family, has just summoned his son Turner (Walken) to what he knows to be his deathbed...
After Henry’s sudden death, however, the three remaining generations of Lair men (including Jason’s son Zach, played precociously by Jonah Bobo) embark on a macabre scavenger hunt to fulfill the seemingly arbitrary ash-scattering commands of Henry’s will. Their rusting VW bus barrels across the kaleidoscopic mesascapes of the Southwestern U.S., a sensitive narrative unfolding like the detailed notes they must open at each Kentucky Fried Chicken they visit...
...always been a lair and a stirrer. You can see it in the letters he wrote to his school newspaper, urging people to "have a go." It's a "go hard or go home" ethos that he seems to retain. He's employed an inventive cheekiness working on election campaigns in his youth. Out on the town, he can be a show-off and a charmer. At an Indian restaurant one evening a decade ago, he launched into a funny and impromptu toast for a stranger celebrating his birthday at another table. But he also has a darker, brooding - some...
...elected in 1998. Rodriguez became Energy Minister and then in 2002 won the role of his dreams as president of Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), the nation's $46 billion state-run oil monopoly and one of the U.S.'s top three suppliers. Instead of theorizing from a mountain lair, Rodriguez is perched in an office above Caracas, helping shape the world oil market. "I never imagined I'd be sitting here," Rodriguez tells TIME. "But then, if you know exactly what your future is, it makes life less interesting...