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While tout Hollywood purloins comic books for its scenarios, Joel and Ethan Coen raid noble antiquity: not just Homer's fabulous travelogue in verse but Preston Sturges' Sullivan's Travels (for the movie's title) and MGM's The Wizard of Oz (for a delirious production number starring the Ku Klux Klan). Toss in enough gorgeous blue-grass music to make the movie's CD a must-have, and you get prime, picaresque entertainment. It celebrates the chicanery of the human spirit, the love of raillery and rodomontade...
...clues to identify the film's source: "based on The Odyssey by Homer." While tout Hollywood purloins comic books for its scenarios, Joel and Ethan Coen raid noble antiquity: not just Homer's fabulous travelog in verse but Preston Sturges' "Sullivan's Travels" (for the movie's title) and MGM's "The Wizard of Oz" (for a delirious production number starring the Ku Klux Klan). Toss in enough gorgeous bluegrass music to make the movie's CD a must-have, and you have prime, picaresque entertainment. It celebrates the chicanery of the human spirit, the love of raillery and rodomontade...
...Republicans and $250,000 to the Democrats in 1999. In 1998, Circus Circus gave $285,000 to the same G.O.P. committee. The following year, Park Place Entertainment, the former gaming division of the Hilton Hotels, gave $100,000 to the Democrats and $75,000 to the Republicans, and MGM Grand gave $150,000 each to the Democrats and Republicans...
...MGM begins shooting the crime flick "Mystery Street" in the yard...
...They rarely take Mar. vacations 5. It's ending in June 9. When doubled, a song of Bush's alma mater 10. Boys Town is near this city 12. German firm EM.TV is buying the Jim __ Co. 13. MGM Grand has offered to buy it 15. Neurologist's tool, for short 16. One of the Coens 18. __ Perce (early Westerners) 19. Part of many Quebec place names 20. Initials of '52 and '56 21. Mary Quant design 22. Georgia was one, once 23. Richards, who called Bush "Shrub" 24. Peter Ackroyd's The __ Papers 25. Item burned in protests...