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...staging the show during the first season of his directorship. It may seem perverse to take a trashy American TV talk show, on which guests with bizarre emotional problems routinely yell at and brawl with each other, and turn it into opera. Opera is still widely perceived as élitist, rarely relevant but always rarefied. The Jerry Springer Show delights in being consumer culture's dregs. But forcing a collision between high art and low is a dependable way to make sparks fly - and besides, the two have more in common than one might think. "The format of The Jerry...
...invitation from BBC Scotland to write and direct Ratcatcher. Her work to date may be art-house, but Ramsay wants to be in the cineplex, too. "I also want to make films people want to go and see," she says. "I don't see myself as being élitist in any respect." Ramsay isn't waiting around to see whether Morvern Caller will be her breakthrough movie; she's already writing an adaptation of Alice Sebold's runaway best-seller The Lovely Bones, which is due to begin shooting next summer. She remains unperturbed by the recent collapse...
...Brussels bashing is a staple of European politics. "Enforcing the rules of the single market will always pit the Commission against vested interests,'' says Stanley Crossick, director of Brussels' European Policy Centre. "So it will always be a whipping post." Though the Commission has been something of an élitist institution short on modern management expertise, it does serve a vital role in enforcing European Union rules and it protects the interests of the smaller member states, Crossick says. "So the current round of criticism, especially the stereotypical allegations in the press of fraud and corruption, few of which have...
...vote and have a bigger say in the makeup of the next government. Opinion polls, however, suggest the party may win no more than 9% of the vote (compared with 6.2% in 1998). One reason for this is the FDP's image as &(e)acute;litist. In the current campaign, for example, the party says it favors repeal of Germany's strong law against wrongful dismissal, a proposal that even Stoiber, the conservative premier of Bavaria, is against. Complicating the FDP's outlook is an embarrassing controversy over anti-Semitism. J?rgen Möllemann, the party's deputy national leader...
...sales are improving. Volvo, the family car of choice, made $700 million and remains the group's workhorse. Indeed, Ford is a quintessential American company that grew huge by creating the mass automobile market. Ironically, its future now rests in large part with a handful of low-volume, élitist cars made in Europe...