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...anomaly amid the no-tech, paint-drying minimalism of the international art-film brigade. In other respects, Lucas' film was right in step with the tendencies of the most prominent movies here. If we see the Star Wars sextet as a single epic, then surely it is the saga of Darth Vader's rivalry with the son he had lost 20 years before. That was precisely the dominant motif of Cannes '05: fathers trying to reconnect with...
...Star Wars sextet as a single epic, then surely it is the saga of Darth Vader's rivalry with the son he had lost 20 years before. That was precisely the dominant motif of Cannes '05: fathers trying to reconnect with their sons
...fact, as Lucas has said many times, he laid out the story for the entire saga in the early 70s, when another American military engagement was turning sour. Thus Palpatine was more Nixon than Bush, and the slaughter of the innocents in the Jedi Temple is an echo of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam...
Charles Krauthammer's essay "Did Chess Make Him Crazy?" [May 2] unfortunately looked at only the negative aspects of the Bobby Fischer saga. Krauthammer should know that there's a fine line between genius and madness. He wrote that Fischer "fell off a psychic cliff," but that's not generally how the game of chess affects people. I have been playing chess since I was in elementary school. It helped me tremendously with concentration, analytical skills, organizing and prioritizing. It made me what I am today: an engineer and International Chess Master. The experiences of the majority of chess players...
...Columbia Pictures, then turned into such a litigious nightmare that Columbia bought his stake for a 50% premium, a settlement that Fay Vincent, then CEO of Columbia, called "greenmail" (a characterization disputed by a Kerkorian spokesman). In the '90s Kerkorian was at the center of a gear-grinding saga with Chrysler. After buying a big stake and standing by for a few years, he launched a hostile takeover bid with Lee Iacocca in '95, finagled board representation and, most recently, wound up in a federal court in Delaware, arguing that he had been duped by management into supporting Chrysler...