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...theater, and this play by Irish dramatist Brian Friel is essentially four of them, delivered by three different characters who never interact onstage: an itinerant faith healer (who, being the title character, gets to talk twice), his wife and his manager. The actors ? Ralph Fiennes, Cherry Jones and Ian McDiarmid ? are wonderful, but this is one very long slog, with whatever dramatic momentum is generated dissipated by a climax of rather annoying obliqueness. This is the sort of self-conscious showcase for ?writing? and ?acting? that separates critics from ordinary theatergoers. In this case, I'm with the folks trying...
...defeat, to assassinate" President Bush's judicial nominees, and Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania comparing the Democrats' audacity to Hitler's--a charge so harsh he later had to apologize. To show what he thought of Frist, New Jersey's Frank Lautenberg carted in a poster of actor Ian McDiarmid playing the diabolical Supreme Chancellor Palpatine of Star Wars: Episode III--Revenge of the Sith. "In a far-off universe, in this film, this leader of the Senate breaks rules to give himself and his supporters more power," Lautenberg said. Then he quoted another character from the movie saying, "This...
Originally driven by a desire to protect his wife, Princess Padmé (Natalie Portman ’03), Skywalker’s insatiable hunger for power draws him to the Dark Side at the urging of the Supreme Chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid...
...Cannes, always a politically charged arena, the critics naturally read metaphors into the plot, especially the part involving the rise of Chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) to ultimate power. A candidate thrust into the top seat after a military attack? Sounds like Spain after the terrorist attacks of March 11, 2003. A politician who is "scarred and disfigured" by his political enemies, yet survives to win the acclaim of his people? That's spookily like the poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko, now President of Ukraine (although the West sees him as a good guy). A leader who cements his command...
...higher ambitions, chafing under the stern tutelage of his mentor, Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor), and daring to risk his status in the Jedi Order, which forbids romantic attachments, by pursuing a reckless passion for Senator Padme Amidala (Natalie Portman). They parry with oily, possibly insidious Senator Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) and battle the Jedi rebel Dooku (Christopher Lee) and his droids with an army cloned from scurvy bounty hunter Jango Fett (Maori actor Temuera Morrison...