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...Dune saga made a good fit in that it's a space opera with a philosophical bent. Dune tells of the rise to power of Paul Atreides (Alec Newman), a young noble and psychic who is adopted by the Fremen, a nomadic warrior people, as their messiah. The Fremen have been exploited for centuries because their desert planet (Arrakis, or Dune) is the sole source of "spice," a substance that makes hyperspace travel possible, expands consciousness and extends life--it's oil, LSD and Botox all in one. (Spice is an excretion of Dune's giant sandworms, but people ingested...
Most Latin American film-makers can't stand slick Hollywood formulas. But two of the best Latin movies now playing in the U.S. and Europe benefit from at least one Tinseltown trick: good timing. Brazilian co-directors Fernando Meirelles and K?tia Lund's City of God, the brutally realistic saga of a Rio de Janeiro favela, or slum, got a big publicity boost after it opened last summer, when real drug gangs swept out of Rio's favelas and briefly shut down posh neighborhoods like Copacabana. And Mexican director Carlos Carrera's The Crime of Father Amaro, the taboo-busting...
...travels to retrieve his son, who is being held by state social services after the death of his mother, Ulysses’s ex-wife. The play takes a powerful and bleak journey through a mind tortured by a violent, war-filled past. Based on the prototypical road trip saga, the show is simultaneously the poignant memoir of an abused wife and mother and a commentary on the myths of war and heroism. Daily at 7:30 p.m. except Mondays (2 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Sundays) through March 22. Tickets $34-$68, available at the ART Box Office...
...very rare happy ending to a months-long kidnapping saga: Elizabeth Smart returned home Wednesday, nine months after being abducted from her bedroom in the middle of the night. Edward Smart, her father, fought back tears of joy as he faced the media, issuing an impassioned plea for the U.S. House of Representatives to pass mandate a national "Amber Alert" system - the response program the Smarts credit with Elizabeth's safe return. Elizabeth's story will add fuel to the debate already raging over the program...
...travels to retrieve his son, who is being held by state social services after the death of his mother, Ulysses’s ex-wife. The play is a powerful and bleak journey through a mind tortured by a violent, war-filled past. Based on the prototypical road trip saga, Highway Ulysses is simultaneously the poignant memoir of an abused wife and mother and a commentary on the myths of war and heroism...