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...palace, and Gong Li is staring daggers. Chinese cinema's haughtiest diva plays a 10th century Empress who is having an affair with her stepson while, she suspects, her husband (Chow Yun Fat) is slowly poisoning her. That's just for appetizers in a menu of long-lost parents, eloping lovers and the minor distraction of a civil war out in the grand courtyard...
...creatures - that all is sham and vanity, that even though the studio insists on changing the title of their film to a more central American holiday (Home for Thanksgiving) that their cause is hopeless? You'd think they would if they examined the film's key dramatic premise (that long-lost daughter - Parker Posey - is bringing her lesbian lover home to the family). You'd think they might see through the hype, since largely represented by the divinely clueless hosts of a syndicated Entertainment Tonight TV show (Fred Willard and Jane Lynch...
...unison. Indeed, it may be the percussiveness of the Keys that best defines them. One can’t help but be moved by their driving beat, and both are such strong instrumentalists that, as they become possessed by the meter itself, they seem to be calling on some long-lost rhythmic truth. Sounding older, deeper, and more organic than others who’ve borrowed so heavily from the blues, they combine formidable talent with a soulfulness that many find lacking in groups like Led Zeppelin. Auerbach coaxed his myriad licks and blues scales out of the same Gibson...
...human-like species we picture when we hear the word caveman--who are far closer to us genetically than chimps are. And though Neanderthals became extinct tens of thousands of years ago, Pääbo is convinced he's on the way to reconstructing the entire genome of that long-lost relative, using DNA extracted, against all odds, from a 38,000-year-old bone...
...independence from Britain in 1957. Those who make the pilgrimage often talk of an epic search for their roots and a grand narrative of Pan-Africanism. But increasingly, it's trade, investment and entrepreneurship anchoring those high ideals. Ghana's President John Kufuor has aggressively courted his country's long-lost cousins. Ghanaian government officials are contemplating a bill that would grant dual citizenship to African Americans who invest in Ghana or maintain a home there. Some native Ghanaians in the U.S. have started organizing tours for African-American businessmen. When they arrive, the guests are usually showered with gifts...