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...other attractive aspects. For one thing, it's a hit: made for just $8 million, the film has earned nearly $60 million at the domestic box office and another $31.6 million abroad. For another, Sunshine boasts a strong mix of American actors (not the motley of U.S., Mexican, Moroccan and Japanese thesps in Babel). Two of the Sunshiners - Alan Arkin, 72, and Abigail Breslin, 10 - were nominated for Supporting Oscars. And now all the actors win the SAG award. Suddenly, they and their film are the little Menschen that could...
...disaffected young Moroccan immigrant named Mohammed Bouyeri shot and killed Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh on an Amsterdam street, slit his throat with a machete, and then calmly plunged a knife into his chest. The murder forced Holland to reassess its cherished postwar tolerance of immigrants. That discussion continues today across Europe, characterized by angry outbursts and a great deal of certainty about who, or what, is to blame. In Murder in Amsterdam, Buruma offers no such prescriptions. Instead, he brings a journalist's detachment to the debate, dissecting the violent rage of a "confused" and "muddled" Bouyeri...
...pregnant wife and young daughter to Casablanca, buying a decrepit Arabian Nights complex once owned by a real caliph. Shah encountered slothful house-renovation crews and irascible neighbors, but also had to dodge gangsters, suicide bombers, plagues of rats and - worst of all - jinns, the spirits that many Moroccans believe are hazards of daily life. He learned to deal with the jinns the Moroccan way, sprinkling drops of his blood in the toilet, burying chunks of meat in the garden and, eventually, hiring 24 drum-banging exorcists for a two-day expulsion ritual. The Caliph's House ends with...
...intelligence-watchers is whether self-described spy Omar Nasiri is the real deal, or if his cloak-and-dagger tale of infiltrating al-Qaeda is an unverifiable get-rich-quick scam. According to his new book, Inside the Jihad: My Life With Al Qaeda, A Spy's Story, the Moroccan-born author (who uses Nasiri as a pseudonym) says he spent nearly seven years leading a dangerous double life as an informer for European intelligence services on the activities of his brothers-in-jihad, including vivid detail of combat and explosives training in Afghan camps, and his clandestine work within...
...Babel trots out favorite lefty stereotypes, from Third World victims to ugly Americans (and, to be fair, other ugly Westerners). The Moroccan kid who uses a bus for target practice comes off as a poor naïf--if he were American, Hollywood would probably treat him as an example of our sick, gun-crazy society. The American couple are the kind of self-absorbed Yanks who jet off to a poor country to be "alone" among thousands of peasants, guarded and distanced from their surroundings, taking their Cokes without ice so as not to drink the water...