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Writer-star Nia Vardalos’ follow-up to indie smash My Big Fat Greek Wedding treats gay transvestites with the same loving care she previously slathered over the Greeks: she reduces them to the sparest possible stereotypes in order to make as many “ain’t this wacky” jokes as is possible in this wildly mediocre rehash of Some Like It Hot. Like in that classic comedy, two performers witness mob violence and go on the run. This time the heroes find refuge on the gay circuit, where they pretend...
...pure and simple," said a diplomat. And as the region knows too well, violence begets violence. In Serbia itself, drunken football fans and others vowing revenge on "Albanian terrorists" torched two mosques, including one from the 17th century that had miraculously survived the Bosnian war. Crowds moved on to smash the front windows at a local McDonald's. About 1,000 Kosovo Serbs have been evacuated to NATO bases inside Kosovo and another 2,600 driven from their homes. Camping out in a friend's apartment in the divided town of Mitrovica, medical student Ivan Radic, 30, a Kosovo Serb...
...Then last July, Howard walked onto a plane, sat for six hours and walked off it a different man. It wasn't that he had changed so much as that the world around him had: Howard had landed in England - a country in which football coaches get knighted, a smash TV drama is devoted to players' wives and each game is dissected like the evacuation of Dunkirk. "It's just enveloping," says Eddie Lewis, a U.S. midfielder who has played the last four years in England. "There's no way to escape the football. It's probably too much...
...Gibson's supposed to be a panderer, pimping Christ's suffering to audiences who didn't realize they needed to see their personal Redeemer get scourged for the longer part of two hours. You tell me, Andy: How many millions did Cecil B. DeMille make off his silent-film smash The King of Kings? How many billions do the movie and TV moguls make each year portraying, in a manner that doesn't even attempt to be edifying, human suffering, mutilation and humiliation-for cheap thrills or cheaper laughs...
...profits: the U.N. says groups like the Taliban pocketed hundreds of millions of dollars last year from a record 3,600 tons of opium, with farmers - taking home up to ten times a policeman's pay - expecting further growth this year. While the U.N. advocates deploying coalition troops to smash drug labs thriving in the north, Karzai is pleading for $300 million in international aid to slash cultivation by 70% before 2008. One Step Closer CYPRUS Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders meeting at U.N. headquarters agreed to begin formal talks in Nicosia this week to resolve the 30-year dispute...