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Ahead of its premiere on Aug. 5, the musical came under fire for being staged just weeks after the failed terror attacks in London and Glasgow. Protestors launched a petition on Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Downing Street website that urges Brown to "condemn the tasteless portrayal of terrorism and...
The petition, which sparked widespread media coverage in Britain, may actually be drawing audiences to the show. Producers say the musical has filled its 160-seat theater to capacity during every performance thus far. A video clip of "I Wanna Be Like Osama" has also been viewed more than 125...
Harvard President Drew G. Faust was not among the 286 American university presidents who signed a petition last week condemning a boycott of Israeli universities, but she had criticized the boycott in a private letter she wrote early last month.
University presidents from across the country condemned the proposed boycott in an advertisement in The New York Times last week declaring, "Boycott Israeli Universities? Boycott Ours, Too!" The petition, organized by the American Jewish Committee, featured a statement by Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger, a noted free speech scholar...
...That cued a righteous backlash of assembled directors (including Italy's Roberto Rossellini) and critics (including Richard Roud of Britain's National Film Theatre), who signed a petition "to express their admiration for the maker of this film." The Cannes Jury, headed by novelist Georges Simenon, sided with the petitioners, giving the film second prize "for a new movie language and the beauty of its images." Informed world opinion followed soon enough. In a 1962 poll by Sight & Sound magazine, international critics rated L'Avventura the second greatest film of all time, behind Citizen Kane...