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...Dead. That film was a Molotov cocktail of genres: an Anglo-American combustion of romantic Brit comedies like Notting Hill and the U.S. zombie genre so robustly exhumed in Night of the Living Dead. Or, as Wright and Pegg pitched it: "Richard Curtis shot through the head by George Romero...
...Dead, it's about a random bunch of people trapped in a shack and beset by flesh-dripping, flesh-eating zombies. In the spirit of that 1968 classic, Planet Terror celebrates the community of the still-living, except that Rodriguez's humans do a lot less grousing than George Romero's did. It's also got deadly gases, go-go dancers, pretty disgusting shots of men with extreme gonadal anomalies, and Bruce Willis as the man who killed bin Laden. (Who else would...
...ARENA's founder, Roberto D'Aubuisson, who was accused of heading death squads during the 1980s civil war. The elder D'Aubuisson, who died in 1992, was found by a U.N.-backed truth commission to have ordered the 1980 assassination of Roman Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero. His son and colleagues were murdered on the 15th anniversary of D'Aubuisson's death from throat cancer...
...OSCAR ROMERO Assassinated during Mass in 1980, Romero, the Archbishop of San Salvador, once said, "A church that does not unite itself to the poor ... is not a true church of Christ." Like Day, he could become a saint...
...likely to be disappointed by the Democratic response to Bush's proposed troop increase, those who believe he is eroding American civil liberties will be even more downcast in coming weeks. Yesterday at a press briefing in the Senate Hart office building, American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Anthony Romero said that while Democrats had not been willing to obstruct Bush's war on terror initiatives before the November elections, he hoped the Democratic rout might have changed the political calculation. "We hope that the Democrats have found their spines again," he said...