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...Destroy," it reads. "Save Liberia." The poster is pasted in the windows of the four shops in the waiting area and on the outside of the door of the first class lounge. I asked the man behind the bar in the food shop if he had any copies to spare. "Send me a T-shirt from your country and I will give you this one," he offered. I promised him I would and he carefully took down the poster and handed it to me. I wandered back to my travelling companions and showed them my prize...
...Some things about Fenway are just a little bit different. Where I come from, an usher is the 80-year-old man named Ernie at the movie theater who takes my ticket and reminds me to donate spare change to cystic fibrosis research. At Shea Stadium, where the Mets have languished under the roar of LaGuardia air traffic since the 1960s, all the ushers are brittle octogenarians dressed up in cute age-appropriate Mets gear—orange bow ties and suspenders. But at Fenway, the ushers double as beefy security guards, always ready to hustle up the bleacher stairs...
...Spare a thought for Thomas Penfield Jackson...
...fascinating as a wedding of two disparate auteurs. Kubrick took five, seven, a dozen years to make a movie; he optioned Brian Aldiss's short story "Supertoys Last All Summer Long," on which A.I. is based, in 1983. Spielberg has shot multiple films in one year, and in his spare time he helps run the DreamWorks film studio. Spielberg has the warmest of directorial styles; Kubrick's is among the coolest. One aims to seduce the audience; the other wanted to bend moviegoers to see it his way, or to hell with them. The resulting fugue is like a piece...
...another project later this year.) Mambo didn't unduly impress the critics or crowds at its opening at Cannes?everyone was hoping for a Crouching Tiger repeat?but Shu Qi's performance did. This film was essentially made for her, and her character carries the action. We see the spare, raw, brittle Shu Qi rather than the ditzy spray-on sex doll her earlier films tended to serve up. It's a psychological drama that charts the wrenching of her separate attraction for two very different men, and she gets to cry rather than squeal. "This is the best work...