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...famous O'Farrell Theatre in San Francisco and requisite rap sheet of obscenity and drug charges. The Mitchells also brought the world such adult-film classics as the 1972 Marilyn Chambers vehicle Beyond the Green Door, a $60,000 flesh romp that admirers would extol (seriously) for its plot, camera angles and musical score. It went on to earn the brothers $30 million on their investment. As Jim once philosophized: "The only art in this business is my brother Art." But success came with a heavy price tag. In 1991 Jim shot and killed his brother while trying, according...
...dismantled the outsize bust of Morrison that once topped the grave. By then, the grave site had been covered in graffiti by fans. Other tombstones, vandalized with arrows labeled Jim that directed the way to Morrison's grave, have since been wiped clean. Cemetery staff blocked off the plot with metal barricades a few years ago. Asked for directions, a staff member sniffs: "We are a cemetery, not a tourist service...
...haven there. As support from key Republicans has withered, the Pentagon has cranked up the al-Qaeda rhetoric. On July 17, the Administration released the latest National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), which said "Al-Qaeda will probably seek to leverage the contacts and capabilities of al-Qaeda in Iraq" to plot attacks against the U.S. homeland. Bush has turned up the volume, mentioning al-Qaeda 27 times in a speech last month. "Leaving Iraq now," Bush said recently, would mean we'd "allow the terrorists to establish a safe haven in Iraq to replace the one they lost in Afghanistan ... People...
Bunin’s play is an odd choice for HRST. It is certainly unique: This may be the only play in existence that is simultaneously a whimsical fantasy and an overt critique of geo-political borders. Ignoring its ridiculous plot, the play is simply not well written, riddled with clichés and obvious morals. At the play’s climax, for example, after watching Adam spend most of his life traveling around the globe in search of Gildoray, he speaks the incredibly revealing line: “I was chasing a kingdom and found it was only...
...smoothing over what could have been unsightly scars by proving the old adage, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Throw film composer Nicholas Hooper into that category, too, for his deeply felt (if occasionally intrusive) score. Their technique of nipping excess plot from denser portions of the film and grafting them onto thinner places is an ingenious way to make even dramatic edits blend right...