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...neither an unsatisfying nor inaccurate story, but these days it sounds old-fashioned because globalization is rewriting the tale. Asians are still emigrating to America, but many are returning to Asia, pursuing the same wealth and advancement that America once exclusively offered. In fact, it's increasingly difficult to tell Old and New Worlds apart. With their coffee chains and street-fashion boutiques, malls in Mumbai and Beijing are polished facsimiles of those in the U.S., and when half the world is tuned into reruns of Friends, or The Simpsons, who actually suffers from culture shock anymore...
...sociopaths turn out to be as normal as the rest of us. The movie offers up carnage, emotional torment and a racist dwarf as it follows two hit men sent to the Belgian city after a job gone bad - but, in the end, it's really just a tale of love and honor. McDonagh describes the film as the most hopeful thing he has ever written. "It's about guilt, redemption, self-sacrifice, and it could have been much bleaker," he says. "But we always had the comedy to keep despair at the door...
...idea for the film - part buddy flick, part thriller, part existential drama - came to McDonagh on a weekend away in the quaint Flemish city. On day one, he was taken with the place: "the canals, the cobbled streets, the fairy tale-like quality of it." By day two, he was bored out of his mind. And from his conflicting desires - get some culture vs. get drunk - his two characters, Ray and Ken, were born. After botching a job, newbie hit man Ray (played by Colin Farrell) and his mentor Ken (Brendan Gleeson) are sent to Bruges to cool their heels...
...signed the Sex Pistols and the Stones to Virgin Records and then tried to bring that same swagger and cheek to the airline business at Virgin Atlantic. I ask him about his mother, a stewardess in the glamour days of the 1950s, and Branson launches into a well-worn tale about her blithely crossing the Atlantic on an airline whose planes didn't always cover the distance...
...just who will be implicated by the U.N. inquiry remains something of a mystery, despite the widespread speculation that Damascus had a hand in Hariri's killing. Last week, a star witness in the ongoing probe suddenly vanished while under French police protection. The complicated tale of the witness, identified as the chauffeur to a Syrian general suspected of involvement in planning the bomb attack that killed Hariri and 22 others, underscores some of the many problems that have surrounded the investigation. The French newspaper Le Figaro reports that evidence quickly emerged that the witness had been paid to implicate...