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...fans are now starting to wonder whether the impish director isn't forgetting out of what wood he was carved. Once an arch tormentor of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi - who has ofttimes been satirized with a nose of Pinocchian proportions - Benigni now says that whatever his failings as a statesman, Berlusconi is "a bloody good businessman." Could this have anything to do with the fact that Berlusconi's Medusa Group is distributing Pinocchio in Italy? Then, after Benigni restricted an awards ceremony photo-opportunity to just three minutes, Italian press photographers went out of their way to scrag...
...season at the prestigious Théâtre Marigny. The play, a Freud-meets-Dali folly that Malkovich first mounted three years ago with his home troupe at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater, is his directorial debut in French. He's also getting broader exposure playing the cynical and snakelike statesman Talleyrand in a miniseries on Napoleon currently running with great fanfare on French television. The role requires Malkovich to ooze the delicious malevolence he has made his signature, most memorably as Valmont in Dangerous Liaisons. In person, though, Malkovich is nothing like his scary screen personas...
...fans are now starting to wonder whether the impish director isn't forgetting out of what wood he was carved. Once an arch tormentor of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi - who has ofttimes been satirized with a nose of Pinocchian proportions - Benigni now says that whatever his failings as a statesman, Berlusconi is "a bloody good businessman." Could this have anything to do with the fact that Berlusconi's Medusa Group is distributing Pinocchio in Italy? Then, after Benigni restricted an awards ceremony photo-opportunity to just three minutes, Italian press photographers went out of their way to scrag...
...details about the liaison, including how she and Major planned assignations as they sat behind Thatcher during Prime Minister's Question Time in the House of Commons. The disclosures may have revised his reputation, but they could also land him in legal trouble. In 1993 Major sued the New Statesman and Scallywag magazines for libel over articles suggesting he was having an affair with a Downing Street caterer. The basis of Major's claim: It was unthinkable he would commit adultery. The cases never went to trial - like most libel actions, they were settled out of court. But both publications...
...strong as it appears. It's worth noting that at this point, Putin is still allowing his foreign minister Igor Ivanov to do the talking. We've previously seen a pattern where allowing his aides to talk tough leaves Putin space to come in and play the statesman - he won't even have to go back on his words in order to back the U.S. position, because thus far he hasn't really even said much...