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...With his own preparedness staff, he did discuss terrorism, says Jerome Hauer, Giuliani's emergency-management chief from 1996 to 2000. Giuliani was certainly more aware of the subject than most mayors, which made sense, given the city's panoply of targets. But he was not a student of Islamic extremism, as he claims on the campaign trail, Hauer says. (Giuliani and Hauer had a falling-out during the election to replace Giuliani after 9/11, both sides confirm, after Hauer endorsed a Democrat, arguing in part that the city would be safer under his choice.) "We never talked about Islamic...
...these - and many other matters besides - are the subject of director Frank Oz's insanely funny, if occasionally out-of-control, black farce, Death at a Funeral, in which a bustling group of the British bourgeoisie gather to attend the last rites of a perfectly respectable and well-liked old gentleman who turns out to have had a secret life. That's where the dwarf comes in; he was in on the secret and thinks he has a right to some portion of the old boy's estate. He's also what the movie has for a villain...
...producer of the Bratz movie. Parents who can't stand the overtly sexy Bratz dolls will be relieved to find that they have cleaned up their acts for the movie. But they've now got dialogue. "We have to give these girls attributes," says Arad. "What subject do they like, what music do they listen to, who are their parents...
...Chatwal is an Indian-American Sikh businessman whose son's profligate wedding in Delhi last year became the subject of a Discovery Channel documentary, The Great Indian Wedding.The flood of over-the-top weddings that followed in its wake - mostly within Delhi's Sikh community - eventually prompted the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee, a communal organization that maintains temples and represents nearly half of the city's Sikh population, passing an injunction requiring that all Sikh weddings in Delhi must now take place in gurdwaras,as Sikh temples are known, and not in hotels. No liquor or meat...
...Jihad is not the first show to tackle fundamental Islam. Since 9/11, Muslim comedians have increasingly satirized the subject to slay suspicion and stereotypes, managing to dodge the controversy faced by Jihad. For Dean Obeidallah, co-founder of the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival, that comes down to identity. "The difference between us and the Jihad musical is that it's us - the people being negatively stereotyped - trying to break the stereotype ourselves." In the eyes of protesters, that may be what distinguishes a critical success from a bomb...