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...Brad Dourif, as a slimier Richard III). Heroic Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) and the elf-warrior Legolas (Orlando Bloom) band with a revived Gandalf to defend Rohan against Saruman's 10,000 soldier-clones. Out in the wild, the hobbit Frodo (Elijah Wood) is on a desperate trek with his pal Sam (Sean Astin) and the creepy Gollum (Andy Serkis), a creature who once possessed the Ring and has been mutated by its corrupting power. Frodo, seduced and nearly spent by the Ring, is an uneasy kin to Gollum, who shows flashes of the sweet creature he once...
...finished work seen in the last picture had been completed several weeks earlier, and an identical canvas used in the preceding prints was never actually punctured. Fontana told Mulas the best he could do was simulate his slashing process for the camera. A real work, he told his photographer pal, almost always came in an unexpected instant after days or weeks of eyeing and pondering a painted surface. The moment of inspiration is a deeply mysterious thing, but visitors to the Verona show "Baroque Metaphors," on through March 9, will feel the artist's creative stabbings even though they escaped...
...force behind Ek Pal (Hindi for One Moment) is Karamjeet Ballagan, a 41-year-old ethnic Indian health worker in Birmingham, home to a big South Asian population. When Ballagan alerted community leaders that the HIV rate?though still small?was rising among South Asians and that people needed to be educated about sex and drugs, she ran into a wall of opposition. Culturally conservative and religiously orthodox, they refused to acknowledge the problem. "They thought I was imposing Western values and encouraging young people to have sex," says Ballagan. "But I wanted them to face reality...
...They needn't have fretted. At initial screenings, the 40-minute Ek Pal has earned a warm response. The typically melodramatic Bollywood plot has Sanjay, a respectable, married businessman, contracting HIV from a casual sexual encounter. Filled with guilt, he deserts his family, avoids telling his mistress, Komal (who is carrying his child), and is ostracized by the community. When Komal later learns what has happened, she kills herself out of shame and fear that she and her unborn baby may also be infected. But this being Bollywood, despite the tragedies set in motion by Sanjay's "one moment...
...sanction, it will be easier to convince ordinary Arabs that the war is legitimate and the fault is Saddam's. If the U.N. doesn't come through, the Administration is instead preparing to lead a "coalition of the willing." Italy, Australia, Poland, Spain, Qatar, Kuwait and, of course, best-pal Britain might all agree to take part in military action without a Security Council mandate...