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...evening last week a few moments before curtain call, Mahdi and the other actors lounged backstage while an actress with platinum blonde hair and a heavy application of kohl-eyeliner berated a stagehand in the timeless manner of prima donnas the world over. But any sense of show business as usual ended when one of the theater managers came by to collect passports and identity documents. The Syrian government is in the process of tightening its generous residency laws for Iraqi refugees, and the fear of deportation looms larger over the cast than a newspaper critic with a grudge...
...said he was indefinitely delaying elections scheduled for Jan. 22. This was after months of clashes between political activists who have fought each other and with police and soldiers, leaving at least 45 dead and hundreds injured. Who are the central figures in the crisis? Bangladesh's two political prima donnas...
...accurate, the women in question are more than prima donnas. They are the rival former Prime Ministers of the country, who despise each other and whose political organizations - complete with congenital corruption and violent tendencies - have been getting in the way of Bangladesh's progress for a decade and a half. Khaleda Zia, 61, heads the Bangladesh National Party and is the widow of assassinated President Ziaur Rahman; and Sheik Hasina, 59, leads the Awami League and is the daughter of Bangladesh's first President, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Zia blames Hasina's Awami League for her husband's killing, while...
...Happier players. As seen at last year's U.S. Open and numerous events since, this is the best innovation in tennis since yellow balls. As well as appealing to everyone's sense of justice, viewers no longer have to watch players fume and sulk like prima donnas when a close call goes against them. Fears that Hawk-Eye would hold up play excessively have proved unfounded: it's quick, reliable and altogether satisfying...
...Typically, Altman's contribution to the omnibus film Aria focused not on the singers but on the operagoers. Everyone gets to be a prima donna, or a spear carrier, in Altman's daring democracy. Not many directors would think to open a film with an elegant eight-minute tracking shot that brings dozens of characters together and introduces a whodunit teaser. Altman did it, and so much more, with The Player. He continued his innovations with film form in Short Cuts and Ready to Wear and the 2001 Gosford Park. By then, as happens to most pioneering artists, experiment...