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...agreement boosted De Beers' efforts to strengthen its domination of the worldwide market for uncut diamonds. De Beers already controls 80% of the global trade, and the deal could pressure any restive members to remain within the cartel. The pact with the Soviet Union, which competes with Botswana for the title of No. 1 diamond producer, will raise De Beers' market share to at least...
...what if X also stands for exemplary, exciting, extraordinary? Such is the case with two new films -- The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer -- given the X tag. Their distributors have rightly decided to release these strong, disturbing melodramas as is, uncut and without the MPAA's rating. They will strut naked into the marketplace, allowing adult audiences to judge for themselves whether this is porno...
Since then, the Lawrence legend has thrived through a steady stream of biographies and memoirs. His life sparked one of the greatest epic films ever made: David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia (1962), recently rereleased in the original, uncut version its director intended. Moviegoers can once again admire Peter O'Toole in the title role and assume that they have seen Lawrence whole. They have not, through no fault of the actor or anyone else involved in that exemplary movie. On the evidence of The Selected Letters, which includes 470 examples, roughly two-thirds published for the first time, Lawrence...
...well." One scene -- a flashback of a desperate encounter between the writer's mother and her husband's best friend -- was sexually explicit, even by the liberal standards of British TV. "There was a debate about it at BBC, " Potter says, "but they decided to let it go uncut. And in fact the consequences of that particular adultery were illness and death and great misery. So it could hardly be held up as an invitation to promiscuity." In the end, Detective earned robust ratings and a British Academy of Film and Television Arts best actor award for Michael Gambon...
...prose may be gushy at times, and Arnold's photos are grainy, but both beat with life and explode with candor. The arias of shop talk, the revelation of fears and jealousies, as well as the wry wisdom and humor, are riveting and give the blithe impression of being uncut...