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According to a recent report, 131 million people would take the deal of a public health-care plan, including two-thirds of those who now have private insurance. What does that say about the wishes of the American people? Yet the worry seems all about driving the private health-insurance industry out of business. There are at least two bills now in Congress that would provide a universal public plan--including how to pay for it--and help health-insurance workers displaced by it. But it looks as though we once again may wind up with what the lobbyists...
...detainees have been released in Bermuda as the U.S. continues its push to shut down the facility by 2010. Others have been transferred to Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Chad, while Italy and the U.K. say they will take former prisoners. More than 500 detainees have been sent home in recent years; 50 have been cleared and are ready to be released, and 220 others await trial...
This movie, though, is more than the sum of the films it echoes, including Allen's own. It's common for reviewers of his recent work to cite an early triumph like Bananas or Annie Hall and find the new ones lacking. Whatever Works is different: it has that young-Woody fizz with a mature comic romanticism; it's been aged in wit. If Allen has a decade or two of films left in him and if he makes a really excellent one years from now, people will say, "It's terrific, but it's no Whatever Works...
...Bullock faces two big challenges. She's a star actress at a bad time for the breed (a recent Forbes study showed that Hollywood's 10 top-earning actors were all men), and her gifts of subtle endearment just aren't needed in movies that force their stars into Manichaean opposition...
...Keiji Okada, a playwright and composer who has authored many works for Takarazuka, says that the company is about to take a "modern and futuristic" turn. Stage sets will emphasize "sharp, metallic and powerful colors and lines." Sources of inspiration are also widening: one recent production was based on the Capcom video game Phoenix Wright...