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...educate his fans on the peculiarities of the Chinese judicial system, you're on the right track. Director Jon Avnet says that several Chinese judges and lawyers put themselves at risk to be consultants on the movie. "The catchphrase of the Chinese courts is 'Severity for those who resist,'" says Avnet, who got offered a lot of pirated copies of his last movie, Up Close and Personal, while in Beijing researching this one. "I'm lucky because I get to make a movie about China that the Chinese artists couldn...
...Broadway musical. A sitting-duck target for some pretty unmerciful snubbing (or just plain ignoring) by the magistral proponents of intellectualism and high art. And yet, for the critic who can't resist a good show or the damnably hummable tunes of a Rodgers or a Lloyd Webber, a really professionally staged musical is often a source of lively, if somewhat guilty, entertainment. So it is with the lavish production of the Kern-Hammerstein classic "Showboat" currently playing at the Wang Center through August...
This is an age in which both the Speaker of the House and the President of the United States cannot resist, in dramatic televised addresses, making pointed reference to their latest bereavement. This is an age in which the Vice President, in consecutive convention speeches, makes lachrymose use, first, of a son's accident, then of a sister's death. (Noted one mordant wit: At this rate, his wife had better not walk near any plateglass windows.) In such an age, we can use the example of a man who through four presidential terms dealt with the agony...
...should lose such an integral part of their tradition and identity at just this moment. They are Rick Pitino's Celtics now, the man Bird recruited in his final act in green. And although Pitino, a Boston native, wanted Bird to remain, it seems Larry Legend just could not resist the opportunity to have a team...
...timing. The stock market is a self-correcting mechanism, even though it hasn't seemed that way in the 1990s. The market may finally be entering a long overdue cooling period, which would naturally fix some glaring excesses in CEO pay--so long, that is, as companies resist the inevitable CEO pleadings to revise their pay deals in a flat or falling market...