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...Rwandans failed to defeat the Hutus, despite several attempts and more invasions, and out of that crucible of conflict came a full-scale war involving a plethora of rebel groups, some Hutu, some Tutsi, some Congolese, some criminal mercenaries - as well as Congo's national army and the world's largest U.N. peacekeeping mission. In 1997 the rebels of Congo's Laurent Kabila managed to overthrow then President Mobutu Sese Seko and install Kabila as President. Later, Kabila's son Joseph took the reins when his father was assassinated. But none of them managed...
...Last October, the Tutsi rebel group of General Laurent Nkunda - initially formed in 2003 to fight the remnant Hutu genocidaires - advanced to within sight of the main eastern city of Goma and threatened to take the country. With the U.N.'s 17,000 soldiers outnumbered and overwhelmed by the sheer size and difficulty of the terrain it was meant to police - Congo is as big as Western Europe, without the roads - and the poorly paid and ill-disciplined national army disintegrating, little seemed to stand in Nkunda's way. That sounded alarm bells around the world. As well as displacing...
...probably a decent sampler for Americans who've never seen a full-out Bollywood musical, since it goes heavy on the action scenes and light on the big dance numbers. The movie does include other conventions of the genre, such as the need of a young man to both rebel against his father figure and please him, and the melodramatic abasing of the protagonist; but these are familiar from Hollywood films, so they won't strike the uneducated viewer as unduly weird, just a little hackneyed. Indeed, that's the impression I got from the movie: different faces, same clich...
...Enter Skulls McTavish, a rebel with a cause—poodle ass-kicking. This rugged, Mad Max-style savage takes prisoners and doesn’t even ask for their names...
...Leonard Rosenman, 83, was writing chamber music when a young actor named James Dean helped him get jobs writing the scores for East of Eden and Rebel Without a Cause. He won Oscars in consecutive years for Barry Lyndon and Bound for Glory. Rosenman's themes for movies (Fantastic Voyage) and TV (Combat!) were more hummable than dramatic. It was just the opposite for the theme that Alexander Courage wrote for the original Star Trek series, or the jaunty whistling jingle that Earle Hagen composed for The Andy Griffith Show. (In a more serious, romantic vein, Hagen wrote Harlem Nocturne...