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...measure of popular passion on the subject is that the movie John Q.--in which Denzel Washington plays an underinsured father holding a hospital at gunpoint to get his son a heart transplant--was No. 1 at the box office during its opening weekend in late February. When the movie came out, the HMO industry's lobbying group bought full-page newspaper ads blaming Washington politicians for failing to address the problems of the uninsured. There's not much evidence, however, that anyone in Washington is paying attention. "While there's conversation going on," says John Engler, Michigan's Republican...
...held, jump-cut and radically chic. That began with Days of Being Wild (1991) and, six films later, found sublime perfection with In the Mood for Love (2000). Here, what began life as a comedy evolved, over 15 months of improvization and reshooting, into a masterpiece of slowly condensing passion. "A Wong Kar-wai film is kind of like cooking school," says Doyle with a cackle. "You have no idea of what you're going to get, but you know it will be good...
Despite the show’s nearly complete lack of spoken dialogue, the music is performed with such passion and the visual design is so intriguing that the audience is completely transfixed. Even without any real plot, Blast! succeeds in effectively communicating and infusing in its audience a wide range of emotions. This is an achievement that is all too rare on stage and certainly a new accomplishment for the marching genre...
Surprisingly, it was Clancy’s passion for theater, not music, that spurred him to cross the pond to America, where the band was eventually formed. On the way, Clancy’s misadventures include being wooed by a Guggenheim heiress and keeping house with a psychic Radcliffe dropout in New York City. The book is almost too dense with such vignettes, but the sharp wit and storytelling ability of the “troubador” rescue it from the shallowness that comes with broad coverage. It may not be Angela’s Ashes, but, like...
...discrimination, the parade is now an in-your-face display that the city cannot?and does not want to?ignore. Both Sydneysiders and tourists flock downtown to enjoy the show. This is the night that the city's straights cheer on the queer population, as it flaunts outrageous costumes, passion and politics. Marching routines and floats are worked on for months, in an attempt to outdo the previous year's offerings...