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...ELDER STATESMEN...
...movies, TV and the stage never ran out of statesmen and supermen for Heston to play. He was Marc Antony (three times), Andrew Jackson (twice), Thomas Jefferson, Henry VIII, Cardinal Richelieu, Buffalo Bill. He did Macbeth on early live TV and Sir Thomas More in a small-screen revival of A Man for All Seasons. ( He wanted to play the role in the 1966 movie version, but lost out to Paul Scofield, who died last month.) Having cut his great white teeth on Broadway, Heston was the rare mid-century movie star who returned to the stage. Laurence Olivier directed...
...higher salaries, both of which are forthcoming under a new U.S.-led police-training program. Last fall President Hamid Karzai admitted that several unnamed high-ranking officials were involved in corruption, saying at a development conference, "the banks of the world are full of the money of our statesmen." Karzai swore to take action but five months later, not a single official has been brought to trial. Meanwhile, some officials build mansions and buy armored SUVs worth far more than their annual salaries...
...some kind of indissoluble link between private rectitude, public service, and divine munificence. But those of us living in the “reality-based community” know this frankly to be false. Not only can we draw on countless examples of sexual extravagance among celebrated pre-democratic statesmen, we know some of our greatest Presidents to have been shameless adulterers, or worse (see: Thomas Jefferson...
...side project, Grinderman, recorded their eponymous debut in 2007. An album of visceral, uncouth guitar-thunder, “Grinderman” eschewed the theatrical balladry of typical Seeds fare, garnering critical praise and exposing conventional hard-rock fans to one of the underground’s elder statesmen. Cave hinted that the Seeds’ next release would channel an adventurous, Grinderman-esque aesthetic, emphasizing guitar noise in defiance of his more piano-oriented past. Fortunately, the gamble pays off in dividends, and “Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!” stands as the mark of an explosive...