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...earliest tale has Thomas the Conquistador seeking the tree for his lover Isabel, the Queen of Spain, who is under threat by conspiring forces of the Holy See. The book opens with a Hollywood style set piece as Thomas leads a band of soldiers in an assault on a huge Mayan temple thought to contain the Tree. As hundreds clash on the temple steps a stony-eyed Mayan priest tears the still-beating heart out of a Franciscan friar. It's an exciting sequence that takes best advantage of artist Kent Williams' ability to combine expressive, natural characterization with fantastically...
...beer lover hoping to jump on the bandwagon ought first to take a lesson from Beer School, Hindy and Potter's recent book about how they built their company. Microbreweries had their own version of the dotcom boom and bust in the early 1990s, when it seemed that a brew pub was opening (and soon closing) on every corner. The ones that survived "were willing to do the nitty-gritty hard work," says Ray Daniels, marketing director for craft beer at the Brewers Association, an industry trade group...
...soon have other opportunities to duke it out on the small screen.Martinez has been contacted by “Beauty and the Geek,” a WB reality series in which “nerdy” guys are paired up with beautiful women. A self-proclaimed lover of the spotlight, Martinez says he is excited at the prospect of appearing on television again—in whatever form.“The funny thing is if I got on that show it would shake things up a bit because, yes, I am a geek in the truest sense...
...inheritance case is quite nimble a feat for writer Andrew Davies. The Masterpiece Theatre coproduction captures the novel's satire, melodrama and horror-movie suspense without undercutting any of those disparate tones. Gillian Anderson is haunting as Lady Dedlock, a claimant tormented by the mystery of a long-lost lover. But the emotional heart of the story is Esther (Anna Maxwell Martin), the sensible orphan caught up in the suit. This is law drama such as Boston Legal's David E. Kelley can only dream about...
...throughout the film to reflect the protagonist’s suffering as a geisha —moving scenes such as when Chiyo searches for her sister in the prostitute district, when Chiyo is beaten in the courtyard, or when the geisha house mother forbids Hatsumomo to see her lover again. The film leaves almost all of Golden’s story intact, focusing only on animating his prose. The narrator reads directly from several passages of the book intermittently throughout the film, maintaining the literary tone of the novel. “Memoirs of a Geisha” provides...