Word: spartacus
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...will stand up to take his place - that's been the boilerplate slogan among the Saudi terror mogul's worldwide supporters these past six weeks. But if the latest boast from al-Qaeda is anything to go by, they may mean it in more than just the I-am-Spartacus sense. The London-based Arab newspaper Al Hayat last Saturday quoted an al-Qaeda spokesman claiming that bin Laden has recruited at least ten lookalikes over the years, preparing them to play decoy in the same way that Saddam Hussein has reputedly done over the years...
...have one clear vision of the future, it's of my slack-jawed grandchildren begging to hear again about what it was like to live in the height of the mythical door-to-door boom. Yes Virginia, you really could get a candy bar and a copy of Spartacus within minutes without stepping outside your front door. Of course, that was back before the piranhas - and their old-fashioned emphasis on profit - took over...
...tool. For example, how do you rate "Gladiator" for shelflessness? A little higher than is comfortable for a Best Picture, I would say. Russell Crowe is one of those actors who is interesting to watch, but, gaudy decapitations aside, "Gladiator" advances unapologetically from cliché to cliché (the "Spartacus"-meets-"Sleepy Hollow" note, the British Romans, the decadent incestuous homoerotic touches dragged in from "Spartacus," "Quo Vadis" and elsewhere) and on the video shelf, is never going to be more than routine escapist entertainment defaulted to when you can't find something else. Same with "Titanic" two years...
...Spartacus is one of the biggest lies put on the screen," he says, referring to the classic film...
...imagined a sort of "I am Spartacus - No, I am Spartacus!" scene in singles bars all over town, legions of hopeful imposters insisting, "I am Lance!" I envisioned a barroomful of men wearing Lance masks like Groucho glasses and moustaches. Then I felt obscurely flattered: I thought, my charm is cloning itself - franchising itself! Finding new host bodies...