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...DeLuise is absolutely hilarious as Don Giovanni, who is hired to kill Robin Hood. DeLuise does a great imitation of Marlon Brando's imitation of Brando's own Don Corleone. Think about that one for a while. Anyway, it's pretty funny. Dick Van Patten also tries to extend his career by doing a cameo as the Abbot. Haven't these guys heard of retirement and social security...
...OMINOUS WARNING FROM THE HIGHEST-RANKING Chinese official yet to speak out against Governor Chris Patten's democratic reforms finally sent Hong Kong's key barometer of confidence, the heretofore spook-proof stock market, plummeting nearly 8%. From London, where Patten coincidentally got a ringing endorsement from his friend Prime Minister John Major, Zhu Rongji, the otherwise reform-minded Vice Premier and likely successor to hard-line Premier Li Peng, said the plans violate the bedrock 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration preserving Hong Kong's capitalist ways after the 1997 hand over. He added darkly, "People ask whether we have...
...tough remarks are serious. Such a direct warning from China's most cuddly communist was "carefully measured," said a Chinese analyst in Beijing, and proves that reformists and conservatives agree on the issue. "China," said the analyst, "will never give in to Patten's proposals." Time is on China's side, as 1997 quickly approaches. Patriarch Deng Xiaoping has reportedly urged an unbending stance, advising, "Do not fear tension." The colony should brace for more...
HONG KONG'S GOVERNOR, CHRIS PATTEN, HAS learned that he does not have to go to China to be snubbed. A week after his chilly sojourn in Beijing, Patten was stood up by a retired Chinese official who abruptly bowed out of a long- standing luncheon appointment at Government House. Meanwhile, pro-Beijing newspapers in the colony kept up their fusillade of ad hominem attacks on Patten, joined even by moderate members of Hong Kong's skittish business community...
...latest spat concerns Beijing's insistence that Patten's proposals to give Hong Kong people a greater voice in choosing their legislators contravene "secret" agreements with Britain on Hong Kong's political shape both before and after 1997. Patten retaliated by releasing the diplomatic traffic that China claimed proved its point. A letter from Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd did refer to an "agreement in principle" about electoral arrangements. But it also mentioned a number of "details" that had to be worked out. Because those negotiations failed, Britain says there was no such deal. Agreed the Hong Kong Standard...