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...called herself a"softie," but Kate Webb's coverage of conflicts in Asia over the past 35 years, from Vietnam to the first Gulf War to Russia's withdrawal from Afghanistan, proved she was anything but tame. Starting in 1967, when she arrived in Saigon, the enterprising reporter earned acclaim for her coolheaded front-line chronicles of the carnage, plus her empathic portraits of innocent victims. In 1971 the raspy-voiced New Zealander was captured by the North Vietnamese while covering a battle in Cambodia. Before she and her five colleagues were released from their 23-day ordeal, a media...
...leaders in North Waziristan, the Pakistani military agreed to take down roadblocks, stop patrols and return to their barracks. In exchange, local militants promised not to attack troops and to end cross-border raids into Afghanistan. The accords came in part because the Pakistani army was simply unable to tame the region. Over the past two years, it has lost more than 700 troops there. The change in tactics, says Gul, was an admission that the Pakistani military had "lost the game...
...fierce demon Cole Turner on the television show “Charmed” and the smoldering Dr. Christian Troy on “Nip/Tuck,” the native Aussie’s new film, “Premonition,” finds him in a surprisingly tame role. MIDDLE OF THE ROAD Although “Premonition” is meant to be a psychological thriller, McMahon’s character—Jim Hanson—is anything but a thriller of a man. A caring husband and loving father of two charming daughters, Jim embodies?...
...painting, not a hair or a grain of sand out of place. All noise and dissonance have been digitally eliminated. It's beautiful, but it's more beautiful than it is real. Movies are invigorated by the tension between the director and reality, the struggle of the artist to tame the reluctant, intractable world, and that tension is missing from 300. If you've ever seen Hearts of Darkness, the documentary of the disastrous campaign to make a very different war movie, Apocalypse Now, you've heard Francis Ford Coppola say: "My movie is not about Vietnam. My movie...
...built his career on flouting the standards of acceptable humor on TV, MacFarlane sees himself as a kind of traditionalist. The way he describes it, his new show “The Winner,” set to debut Sunday, March 4 on Fox, seems downright tame. He insists it has the right combination of heart and humor that made traditional sitcoms like “Cheers” such big hits—strange words from the man who lends his voice to maniacal baby Stewie and Brian, a talking dog with an alcohol problem...