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...hits that stretch from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum to Into the Woods. No, he's raising the alert level for good, practical reasons. Back in 1991, just before Assassins opened off-Broadway, the first Gulf War broke out. The patriotic climate was not ripe for a musical that showcased nine killers and would-be killers of U.S. Presidents; the show got mixed reviews and never moved to Broadway. A decade later a new, Broadway version was gearing up to open in the fall of 2001. Two days after Sept. 11, the producers shut...
...dream he was the lead character in a semiautobiographical movie. Playing him was French actor Patrick Dewaere, who was popular for playing luckless losers and social misfits in the 1970s until he committed suicide. "This guy blew his brains out," Gondry says, in an accent as strong as ripe Roquefort. "I'm really scared of dying." Dewaere as Gondry was in a car, with "this beautiful woman who was a mixture of three or four girls who broke my heart," and the car crashed. The scene repeated itself over and over like a film loop, Gondry's very own Groundhog...
Student groups will have no excuse to sleep in on Monday, when they’ll face clear bulletin boards and kiosks at the ripe hour...
...boot. Education Minister Luc Ferry is vulnerable for mishandling controversial school reform, Health Minister Jean-François Mattei is dogged by his slow response to the heat wave that caused 15,000 deaths last August, and gaffe-prone Ecology and Sustainable Development Minister Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin is also ripe for sacking. All of which may be too little, too late. While the ump repeatedly urged voters not to confuse regional campaigning with a referendum on reform, 42% of first-round voters said their ballots were cast in anger at the government. That hurt ump candidates with close governmental ties...
...mosques and police stations around Iraq has stoked fears that the very foundations of the country are shaking. Many Iraqis blame the U.S. for creating this instability and for continuing to occupy the country, but few would want the troops to simply pull out now, in a climate ripe for civil war. In an informal survey of 1,350 Iraqis carried out for ABC and TIME, 93% of respondents said they think life will improve. But 85% complained that the coalition has yet to deliver on its promises...