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...Robert Carlyle, the memorable psychopath Begbie from Trainspotting), happens upon a club where male strippers are playing to a packed and howling house of local lasses, and a cockamamie idea is born. He and his mates could do that--it's semiskilled labor at best--split the obviously splendid take and at least ameliorate their troubles...
...Congress has embraced contrition chic. A formal apology for slavery would certainly teach Jeff Davis a thing or two. But would the ghost of John Calhoun materialize in the well of the Senate to filibuster against it? There is a splendid irony in this worldwide rush to repentance. All the remorse is for misdeeds committed by others, decades and even centuries ago. The Pope got the ball rolling in 1995 when he apologized for the stake burnings and other pious tortures meted out by the Counter-Reformation in the 16th century. What comes next? The Italian government, heir...
...little West Texas town of Spur (pop. 1,300), where the tumbleweed can outnumber the pickup trucks and the restaurant of choice is the local Dairy Queen. The son is Aaron Latham, 53, a Manhattan-based novelist and screenwriter (Urban Cowboy) and, child of Texas that he is, a splendid raconteur...
...Harvard should do what it should do, and then Radcliffe becomes something extra, something splendid and extra," he says...
...opera. This spring Dunster House offered a splendid performance of "Tales of Hoffmann." Some quite fine thespians and a refreshingly superb orchestra, coupled with the often ribald and vaudvillean tone of Jacques Offenbach's opera, provided a high caliber and rollicking fun performance...