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...first downpour of Haiti's rainy season came on Feb. 17, Ash Wednesday, a day when Christians ponder their mortality. Most Haitians are Roman Catholic, but they hardly needed the reminder - not after the Jan. 12 earthquake that killed more than 200,000 of them. Marie Chantal, a baker who is living in a vast and squalid shantytown on the Champs de Mars park in downtown Port-au-Prince, says the rain that leaked through her makeshift tent on Wednesday night made her grieve more for the two children she lost in the quake when their house collapsed. To comfort...
...rated whodunit - with Leo playing a U.S. marshal searching for a killer in an insane asylum - benefited from an effective ad spot on the Super Bowl and a week with no other new films in wide release. Scorsese's very limited competition came from fellow world-class auteur Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer, another conspiracy thriller set on a windy Massachusetts island. The film took in $179,000 in four theaters in New York and Los Angeles, reaped encouraging reviews and, yesterday, won Polanski the best director prize at the Berlin Film Festival. It will open wider over...
...love Big Love. I love how it extended the standard HBO series premise - "They're a family... of mobsters, of Roman emperors, of vampires... who fight and stick together like any other family" - into the social and political saga of Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton), an ordinary guy in suburban Salt Lake City who happens to have three wives and a bunch of nutter relatives out in the woods. The show works simultaneously as family-values-affirming drama and deadpan surrealist farce: Father Knows Best meets Twin Peaks. And its creators, Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer, seem to keep those...
That should be enough for one terrific episode, but not on this show. When Big Love wants to get really creepy, it turns to Alby, who after the death of the patriarch Roman Grant, his and Nicki's father, has assumed control over UEB, because God told him to. He's declared that Adaleen, Nicki's mother and Roman's widow, should be "sealed" (wed) to J.J., Nicki's reptilian first husband; and Adaleen, with odd docility, agrees. At the sealing ceremonies, Nicki bursts in to find that Alby is planning to seal Cara Lynn, Nicki...
...Calderón took office in 2006 and ordered 50,000 troops to fight the drug gangs. But in recent weeks, critics have been joined by some of the government's key allies, including members of Calderón's conservative National Action Party, regional business lobbies and the Roman Catholic Church. Such pressure could affect how the President sees through the drug war during the second half of his term, which ends in 2012. (See the siege of Ciudad Juarez...