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...should it. Why should you pay $10 to have a meditative, contemplative experience with strangers when you have a DVD player with surround sound at home? Films are held at coliseums like the new giant theaters with stadium seating built for laughing, crying and screaming at grand heroics. Sophocles wrote about killing your kids and having sex with your mom and gods descending at the last second to save the day. He knew how to pull off a decent opening weekend. --Reported by Jess Cagle/Los Angeles and Benjamin Nugent and Heather Won Tesoriero/New York
...things about Saddam, contradictions abound. He is known to surround himself with paranoiac security. Yet when Saddam invited Mohammed Sobhi, an Egyptian actor performing in Baghdad last year, to one of his palaces, security seemed almost nonchalant. Sobhi and his troupe were ushered inside with nary a frisk. Saddam chatted easily, about Iraqi poetry, about the Palestinian problem. He allowed each guest to pose for a picture with him. The notorious dictator struck his Egyptian visitors as steady, smiling, relaxed, cheerful, sensitive, amiable, hospitable. He sounded confident that he had weathered a storm. "Saddam said every Iraqi feels inside...
...photography of Ellen Shub, whose work since 1985 has focused on AIDS awareness. The photographs “add a lot to the display as they document people’s reactions to the Quilt,” according to Murphy. Her photographs of crying viewers of the Quilt surround the panels...
...learned that you had just one week to live, how would you spend the time? Would you surround yourself with relatives and loved ones? Or maybe pass your final days in a dark movie theater, reclining in your stadium-style seat, soda in one hand, Raisinets in the other and popcorn in your lap? Well, probably not the latter. But if, by some chance, there is someone out there who would indeed opt for a cinematic finale, then please pass over Life Or Something Like It—and not just because its subject matter would hit too close...
...studio. Another offering is David Hammons’ Phat Free. The film is of the artist walking through the streets of New York kicking a metal bucket. The camera is very shaky and the lighting has a jaundiced quality to it. The clanging of the bucket is presented in surround sound, and it is much more exciting than The Scorpion King...