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Read an earlier piece by Richard Corliss about Bette Midler here...
...such deformed superheroes as Pinocchio, Cyrano de Bergerac and Edward Scissorhands. But the movie soon cozies into the princess-in-hiding genre that spawned It Happened One Night, Roman Holiday and dozens more. Penelope has been locked away at home, where her fretting, frittery parents (Catherine O'Hara and Richard T. Grant) parade a retinue of potential husbands, all of whom are nauseated at the sight of her. Finally, in an attempt to define herself as something other than That Rich Little Piggy, she leaves home, and is trailed by a young man (James McAvoy, of Atonement fame...
...could get things completely wrong--including civil rights. But what made him formidable was the number of things he got right. Buckley almost single-handedly drove anti-Semitism out of acceptable conservative thought. He was leery of Ayn Rand, Richard Nixon and the Iraq war. And he was a staunch anti-communist. His fixed star was the idea of human freedom. A sure applause line in presidential candidate Barack Obama's speeches this year holds that "it's possible to disagree without being disagreeable." William F. Buckley Jr. was proof...
...musicians played compositions by Richard Wagner, Antonin Dvorak and George Gershwin, but it was the last piece that brought down the house. Arirang is a 600-year-old Korean folk anthem adored in both North and South, and the orchestra "played it beautifully," a beaming Mr. Kim pronounced. As the musicians left the stage, some turned and waved goodbye, and many in the audience reciprocated. The cheers then got louder and went...
...been 89 fatalities since Britain first deployed troops in the country in 2001 - Prince Harry, known by his military title Cornet Wales, has been secretly working in Afghanistan since December, coordinating air support for military operations on the ground. Yesterday his secret was revealed and his boss, General Sir Richard Dannatt, the head of the British army, was quick to praise him. "His conduct on operations in Afghanistan has been exemplary," said Dannatt. "He has been fully involved in operations and has run the same risks as everyone else in his battle group...