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...past couple of weeks saw the mighty French republic brought to its knees by little more than a mob of angry teenagers. In characteristically French style, President Jacques Chirac hopelessly tried to reassure his countrymen with lofty rhetoric: “Whatever our origins, we are all the children of the Republic, and we can all expect the same rights...
...discussion of the art of acting, musical inspirations, and opportunities for human redemption. But lifting the weighty themes is some lighthearted banter—and at least one mention of a “sexual bus stop in purgatory.”CRYSTALLIZING THE CHARACTERSCusack plays Charlie Arglist, a mob lawyer who, as the narrative begins, has just conducted an apparently successful heist of $2 million on Christmas Eve. The victim is Bill Guerrard (Randy Quaid), the Godfather of the Kansas City crime syndicate. His partner in crime is alpha male Vic Cavanaugh (Billy Bob Thornton, in a sly reversal...
...source of wife and child abuse. The church is concerned, says spokesman Michael R. Otterson, about the show's "making polygamy the subject of entertainment." But Scheffer says, "This show is not really about polygamy, in the same way that The Sopranos is not really about the Mob." Except that Tony Soprano only has one family at home--to handle three, that takes real guts. And a little blue pill...
Nearly as stunning as the outburst of violence was the French government's failure to stop it. In an embarrassing admission of its loss of control, the government was forced to suspend some train service from Paris to Charles de Gaulle Airport after two trains were targeted by a mob of youths. As the unrest mounted last week, the political left and the rioters themselves laid blame on the zero-tolerance policies of Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, the ambitious crime fighter who is vying to succeed President Jacques Chirac...
...prospect of hanging concentrates the mind, then the horrors of apartheid gave South African writers a focus and an intensity unique in 20th century literature. Not many countries can boast two still-scribbling Nobel prizewinners, J.M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer, as well as a mob of socially conscious contenders like Breyten Breytenbach, André Brink, Zakes Mda and dramatist Athol Fugard. Yet since the fall of the race-based regime and the triumph of democracy more than a decade ago, some South African writers and readers have worried that the thrill is gone, the edge lost, the fire dimmed. Like...