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...Zardari is no stranger to the whims of Pakistani justice. After Bhutto was dismissed as Prime Minister in 1996, he spent nearly eight years in prison on allegations of corruption, although he was eventually acquitted of the charges. Released last year, he flew to Dubai to join his three children and Bhutto-but vowed to come back to prepare the way for her return. Lahore police officials said Zardari was being held in "protective custody." Party insiders say this is all part of a strategy by President Pervez Musharraf to keep Bhutto's party under a tight rein. They...
...late 1970s in stage and television drama; it took only a few years for graduates of those media to make their mark in film. Three provocative examples from this year's crop: Wetherby, written and directed by David Hare of the BBC and the National Theater; Dance with a Stranger, written by Playwright Shelagh Delaney (A Taste of Honey) and directed by Mike Newell, who has worked in British and American TV; and Insignificance, directed by Nicolas Roeg from a play and screenplay by Terry Johnson. All three films are ferociously critical of Britain or its thunder-stealing ally...
Miranda Richardson, the leading lady of Dance with a Stranger, is no relative of Joely's, but she handsomely fills her star-is-born role as Ruth Ellis, the London nightclub hostess who in 1955 murdered her boyfriend and became the last woman executed in Britain. Coiffed and coutured in the Marilyn Monroe fashion, Richardson shrieks her way through Ruth's sordid life with coloratura bravura. "I love you," murmurs David Blakely (Rupert Everett), a spoiled, sodden rich boy with a passion for racing cars and a taste for tarts. "Everybody does," Ruth shrugs. "Why should you be different...
After all, stranger upsets have been known to happen...
...stranger to lacrosse, having played at the secondary level at Hotchkiss, though mainly as an attack...