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...with his faithful film of Maxim Gorky's claustrophobic epic. The Criterion edition offers a bonus: Jean Renoir's '36 version, with Jean Gabin in the role of the charismatic thief played in the Kurosawa film by Toshiro Mifune. It's a chance to see two movie masters stamp their genius on a superb drama...
...birth possibly embody a whole nation? What can a constitutional monarch like Elizabeth II, prohibited from exercising any real power, actually do to justify her country's steady devotion - the crowds who line up to cheer when she passes, her face on each coin and bill and postage stamp, a national anthem that beseeches God to save her? What does she really do to earn something for which respect is way too small a word...
...which there are no winners, but the magicians on the Senior Committee have conjured one up. The “Last Senior Standing” contest offers a prize for the seniors who attend the most senior bars. “Attending” simply means getting a card stamped, thus ensuring that loads of window shoppers can “pop in,” get a stamp, then frame the certificate next year in a Morgan Stanley office. Ideally, there would be a breathalyzer at the door—if you blow below a .15, no stamp...
...family discusses in a whisper whether or not I'm a lesbian." Rebecca Drysdale, it so happens, is gay (and does a nifty Dr. Seuss parody about how the butch and the femme lesbians learned to get along), but she resists the label some have tried to stamp on her. "That puts something first, besides funny," she says. "My show's about a hundred other things." Like, oh, AIDS and Hurricane Katrina--for which she devises cheery mock-folk songs--and Brokeback Mountain, which she turns into a video game. Drysdale, 27--who spent her grade-school years in Versailles...
...Last week, although the election is still seven months away, both sides were fiercely trying to define the real Chris Shays. At a Farrell fundraiser, veteran Democratic political strategist Paul Begala called Shays "President Bush's rubber stamp," and Farrell's staff put out a memo detailing how often Shays supports Bush initiatives in Congress. Shays staff quickly responded with data showing that the Congressman's voting record is one of the most moderate in Congress...