Word: sagaing
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...Judas gets his props in this TV movie written by Oscar-winning Edward Anhalt ("Becket") and "Greatest Story Ever Told" survivor James Lee Barrett, and directed by James Cellan Jones, specialist in Masterpiece Theatre-style minis ("The Forsyte Saga," "The Golden Bowl," "Jennie," "Oxbridge Blues," "Fortunes of War") and series ("Rumpole of the Old Bailey"). Barrie Houghton hasn't a winsome face, but his Judas is given every opportunity to seem plausible, contorted, remorseful, pleading with the religious elite to exculpate his crime of betrayal...
DIED. ALEXANDRA RIPLEY, 70, author of Scarlett, the sanctioned sequel to Gone With the Wind; of unspecified natural causes; in Richmond, Va. She had written five historical novels before being selected by the estate of Margaret Mitchell to pen a sequel to the beloved Civil War saga. Published in 1991, Scarlett got poor reviews but spent 34 weeks on the best-seller list...
...With its seamy mix of political power, billions of baht in booty, and high-society scandal, the Hangthong case is just the latest installment of a Tumwattana family saga that is Shakespearean in its tragic body count. Starting in the 1950s as owners of a slaughterhouse, the clan's patriarch, Arkom, and his wife, Suwapee, built a Bangkok-based real estate empire worth an estimated $400 million. But wealth didn't bring security to the family, which numbered 10 children. In 1966, Arkom was shot dead in what was believed to be a business dispute. The case remains unsolved. Thirteen...
...officials taking bribes, was shut down, and a systematic campaign of harassment let loose against its employees and investors. Individual Hindus have employed strong-arm tactics against Christian missionaries and burned down churches. And school history textbooks have been rewritten to depict India's medieval history as a long saga of unending Muslim barbarism. As Neeladri Bhattacharya, professor of modern Indian history at Jawaharlal Nehru University, noted in an article published last year, so inaccurate are the new textbooks that they represent nothing less than "declarations of war against academic history itself ... When history is fabricated to constitute a politics...
Charles Frazier's 1997 best seller, Cold Mountain, is The Odyssey compressed, Ambrose Bierce's An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge expanded to saga dimensions. As much as Inman aches to return to a woman he barely knew, but knew he loved, the novel's vivid prose needed to be turned into moving pictures. Paging Anthony Minghella, adapter-director of The English Patient and The Talented Mr. Ripley...