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Television BRAVO Along with Queer Eye, left, the network will push the envelope with Boy Meets Boy, a dating reality show with a twist: a gay bachelor looks for a mate, not knowing which of the candidates are straight...
...Mattheuer's Die Flucht des Sisyphos (The Flight of Sisyphus), from 1972, is unmistakable. A worker is suspended in mid-stride, fleeing the path of the stone he has been pushing uphill; he's both dodging the plummeting boulder and heading for an idyllic valley. But here's the twist: when he painted it, Mattheuer was an avowed communist coddled by East German apparatchiks, yet the work is an obvious protest at the condition of life for ordinary folk in the G.D.R. - not the sort of thing one expects a state-supported artist to have produced. It is such ambiguity...
...Banderas in 1995 and a group of pint-sized actors, all dressed in tuxedos, that the penny dropped. "They looked like little James Bonds, and I thought, Wow, that's the angle. A spy family," he says. "I can use my family's dynamics and values, with the spy twist to give it some action...
While British Prime Minister Tony Blair was still basking in the glowing reviews for his appearance before the U.S. Congress, a plot twist worthy of a John Le Carre spy novel was unfolding back home that could complicate his already shaky political standing. Three days after Dr. David Kelly, Britain's leading expert on biological weapons and an adviser to the Ministry of Defense, testified before a parliamentary committee looking into whether intelligence on Iraq's weapons program had been hyped, his body was found in a field near his home. Police said he had slit his left wrist...
...regret what he had told the BBC or the committee? Or was he simply the victim of crippling depression? Blair, asking for "respect and restraint," announced a high-level judicial inquiry into Kelly's death, as the rest of the country awaited the spy novel's next twist. --By J.F.O. McAllister