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...country's rich diamond mines. In return, the rebels were supposed to disarm and behave. Instead, the amnesty emboldened them; they sold smuggled diamonds for fresh weapons; they got ready to grab power. The slapdash pact assumed Sankoh actually wanted peace, trusting in the good faith of a brutal tyrant...
Nothing about Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe [NOTEBOOK, May 1], has changed in more than 20 years. He is a barbaric tyrant who has been aided and abetted by the international community. Had the Ian Smith regime of the '60s and '70s prevailed, Zimbabwe would now be well down the democratic road to equitable land distribution as well as peace and harmony--not to mention economic stability. Britain, in particular, has a lot to answer for, especially the lives of the white farmers (and their loyal black workers) who are being sacrificed on the altar of political expedience. DAVID...
...judge by reports from the set, Crowe could have played Maximus or Commodus: he was all warrior, all tyrant. A hard-drinking perfectionist, he got into brawls with villagers on one location and laid such waste to his rented villa in Morocco that the caretaker protested to Scott, saying "He must leave! He is violating every tenet of the Koran!" Crowe questioned every aspect of the evolving script and strode off the set when he did not get answers. Says a DreamWorks exec: "Russell was not well behaved. He tried to rewrite the entire script on the spot. You know...
...film, based on a play by actor Ayub Khan Din, is the first feature by director Damien O'Donnell. It is billed as a comedy, and George's frustrations with his elusive, secretive family are surely funny. But Puri makes him more touching than a crude family tyrant. There is something lonely in his bustling blindness, something right about his resistance to sleazy modernism. He's both wrongheaded and good-hearted, and the actor and the film make something fine, winning and memorable of that conflict...
...what you see at Cultural Rhythms this weekend, as you pass by the Cuban American Undergraduate Student Association's table of Cuban cuisine and listen to music playing in the background, realize that bittersweet mementos will never assuage the hurt of a people under the scourge of a tyrant...