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...culture with few common cultural referents, the past is what we share the most. (Perhaps for the same reason, 2003's Broadway shows with broad mass appeal tended to be revivals like Long Day's Journey into Night and Wonderful Town--and the music business heaved up a slew of standards albums.) When old stars pass, they take with them a piece of a time when we weren't so niched and subdivided by the market and our own choices. To make the metaphor a little homier, the pop-culture mainstream is a family that used to get together...
...high-flying businessmen as inaugural members of the Thailand Elite Privilege Club. For a one-off lifetime fee of $25,000, the millionaires were each presented with a Thailand Elite card entitling them to discounts on Thai Airways and at Thailand's best hotels, free golf at a slew of courses, free spa treatments, a fast track through customs, free limousine transfers and a 24-hour concierge service. And why do millionaires need discounts? "We all want a bargain," Thaksin, a telecommunications billionaire, said before doling out the black-and-gold plastic. "I'm not aware of any other country...
...high-flying businessmen into the Thailand Elite Privilege Club as inaugural members. For a one-off lifetime fee of $25,000, the millionaires were each presented with a Thailand Elite card entitling them to discounts on Thai Airways and at Thailand's best hotels, free golf at a slew of courses, free spa treatments, fast-track immigration, free limousine transfers and a 24-hour concierge service. And why do millionaires need discounts? "We all want a bargain," Thaksin, a telecommunications billionaire, said before doling out the black-and-gold plastic...
Directed by Wim Wenders, Wings of Desire is the story of two angels who descend to earth to watch and listen in on the lives of lonely Berliners. The two angels seemingly float through Berlin streets, focusing for a few moments on a slew of ordinary people and their emotions: despairing, weary, optimistic and youthful, recording each moment for some heavenly record. However, the angels’ quiet, subdued mission is interrupted when one of the angels, Damiel, falls in love with a trapeze artist Marion. Shot by renowned cinematographer Henri Alekan, Wenders’s film captures the transcendent...
...bushido is just one of many aspects of the samurai that attracted Zwick to the film. His enthusiasm for Japanese history and culture blossomed from an academic interest to an personal one that included trips to museums—the feel of fabrics and swords and a slew of conversations with historians brought to life what had, until then, existed for him only in the abstract. Eventually, he says, his interest brought him to Japan...