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...film, particularly in the final scene. When Hamlet finally kills Claudius, after prancing about with Laertes in their respective chest wigs, he does it as if cut from the same cloth as "Flash Gordon." Throwing his rapier from the balcony like a javelin, Hamlet pins Claudius to his throne (note: poetic justice) and swings down on the chandelier in order to splash drops of poison into his mouth, all the while bellowing about his impending death, the stellar revenge he has enacted, and his chest hair. (Well, not really, but Hamlet's expression shows he's thinking about...
...Playboy bunnies, at the annual gathering of TV execs. Prince Edward--or ED WINDSOR, as he prefers to be known in the biz--sold a series of documentaries by his Ardent Productions to CBS, including Edward on Edward, a show about his great uncle, Edward VIII, who abdicated the throne to marry an American. The Windsors' revenge...
...vigorous, thoughtful, this ?Hamlet? expands the story with helpful flashbacks; Yorick, Priam, Old Norway come alive as if from a vivid history book," Corliss notes. "The full version restores Shakespeare?s emphasis on court politics, with whispers of intrigue that establish Hamlet and Laertes as potential usurpers of Claudius' throne, and massed armies behind Hamlet. Here he might be a Henry V who's gone just this side of bonkers." The movie is filled with outstanding moments, but if there's a lapse, it's in the central performance. "Spuming his lines with catarrhal intakes of breath punctuating the bolts...
...London. "Each of these acts is a kind of recruitment for this violent trend. It says, 'See? We are doing something.'" And in a country where even politically moderate Saudis proudly call themselves fundamentalists, the fundamentalist dissidents among the majority Sunni could be the greatest threat to the throne...
When Lady Macbeth wished to fight, to help her husband seize the throne, she said to the spirits above "Unsex me here." Today, a woman need not be unsexed, need not be masculinized in order to exhibit qualities of assertion and aggressiveness. No, we are not sending off Madeleine Albright to challenge Saddam Hussein to a wrestling match, but we are asking her to help us decide at what times we should wrestle. How tough to be in Bosnia? How to lessen the never-ending tensions of the Middle East? How to confront the emergence of China? How often should...