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...writer-director brothers who otherwise have enjoyed a quarter-century of critical acclaim, it's that they betray a condescension, almost a contempt, for the people they've created. From the lover-killers in the Coens' first feature, Blood Simple, to the babynappers in Raising Arizona and a raft of Minnesotans in Fargo, all manner of desperately striving oafs populate the Coen gallery of film art. The brothers have been very smart about their characters' being very stupid...
...etat in September 2006 by a clique of generals who claimed he was corrupt, dividing the country and had disrespected Thailand's revered monarchy. He spent the next 18 months in self-imposed exile in various countries, while a military-appointed committee investigated and filed charges against him in raft of corruption cases. He has consistently denied all charges against...
...Colorado politics is more complicated than a simple choice between national presidential candidates. McCain and Obama will share the ballot with a raft of voter-sponsored amendments, many of them touching on hot-button issues that the candidates can't afford to ignore. A controversial ballot initiative can fire up strongly committed constituencies and bring them en masse to the polls, where, of course, they'll also cast a presidential vote. This year's contenders range from a call for prayer time in public schools to a proposed sex strike to end the Iraq war. One of the highest-profile...
...blood (which geysers out of a hole in a soldier's helmet) and guts (a wound in Speedman's stomach spills a sausage factory's worth of entrails) cues you to the objects of Stiller's burlesque: jungle war movies from Apocalypse Now to Apocalypto, from Platoon to a raft of Rambos. A key inspiration had to be Hearts of Darkness, the documentary on the catastrophic filming of Apocalypse...
...withholding tax that both women are still paying for their lives. BOX: Excerpt ''Lena was mad about her husband. As a high school dropout addicted to the movies, she saw him as the rather unlikely combination of her three favorite stars: Noel Coward, Leslie Howard, and George Raft. Unfortunately, Louis was somewhat less sophisticated than Lena's idols. He had, for example, old- fashioned ideas about wifely duties. He believed in perfectly ironed shirts, piping hot biscuits, and demon needlework. Lena . . . could sing, dance, and make intelligent conversation, but she could barely boil...