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From the earliest days of moving pictures, directors have been obsessed with bringing William Shakespeare's Macbeth to the screen. Orson Welles played the tragic king among Stonehenge-like ruins. Akira Kurosawa's murderous medieval lord went down in the most furious fusillade of arrows ever filmed. Roman Polanski, funded by Playboy Productions, filmed Lady Macbeth sleepwalking in the nude...
...Alliances-Yes or No? In his viewpoint "A Farewell to Allies" [Jan. 12] Charles Krauthammer quoted 19th century British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston's axiom: nations have no permanent allies, only permanent interests. That sentence should be placed on the front page of newspapers everywhere. For once, even as a Frenchman, I totally agree with Krauthammer's views. I would add that not just Europe but also the U.S. and all other countries have always lived by Lord Palmerston's axiom. There is no such thing as friendship between nations, nor has there ever been a savior for the common...
Annie Lennox has been nominated for an Academy Award for Into the West, a song in Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King...
...know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land. And I’m happy, tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.” The audience erupted into applause as thunder rumbled in the distance...
...Earring were largely ignored when the Oscar nominations were released. And this year’s Best Picture category is a reverse image of its recent self, with four out of this year’s five nominees in theaters by November. Only the endlessly hyped The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, whose Best Picture nomination had been a given for months, premiered during the holidays...