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Movies, along with most cultural activities, were proscribed in 1975 by the conquering Khmer Rouge. Hundreds of actors, writers and directors were executed. When the regime finally fell, the theaters slowly reopened and a brief renaissance followed, but the industry soon faced another threat: cheap Thai videos and television soap operas. Five years ago, the last commercial movie house in Phnom Penh closed...
When I read that the Bush family doesn't like to be called a dynasty, I figured that the word must remind them of Dynasty, the '80s soap that was known for the sort of clothing the Bushes would consider unseemly and the sort of intensely personal discussions the Bushes, who pride themselves on being nonintrospective, would find embarrassing. From the impression we've been given about Bush family get-togethers at Kennebunkport, Me., the introduction of a Dynasty sort of problem at the dinner table--let's say the sabotage of a family oil rig, in which the suspect...
...Mistresses b) Subway cars, to avoid being groped by male riders c) Bars of unused soap...
...version of how screwed up they all are. The telling is led by Viola, the know-it-all matriarch and glue who holds her estranged husband Cecil and four far-flung children together. Their heavy load--incest, substance abuse, poverty, infidelity, death--makes this a soap opera, but it is leavened with a big dollop of sass...
...This display illustrated not just a junkie's noble path to rehabilitation, but also?and perhaps more importantly for the regime's propagandists?his glorious transformation from soap-dodging Westernized reprobate into a clean-cut Burman patriot. The Burmese military liked to characterize its war on drugs as part of a wider campaign against colonialism and all its nefarious agents. This was spelled out by Khin Nyunt in a speech at Mongla in 1999. He blamed Burma's drug scourge on the "pernicious legacy" of British colonialists, a legacy exacerbated by what he called "the unscrupulous actions of the politically...