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Althought she claims to cringe when people want to show her thesis film, during these years she developed a documentary technique that still informs the movies she makes. For Salaam Bombay, her portrait of street children in the Bombay underworld, she set up acting workshops for these children and led group discussions to learn more about their lives, their speech patterns and attitudes as well as to acquaint them with the filmmaking process...
...evening, including a demonic schoolboy and a hunchbacked grim reaper and a mischievous harlequin. In a particularly bawdy acrobatic scene involving a gigantic feather bed and a swing set, he appears in striped tights, a harness top and a winged hat that makes him look more like an underworld gogo dancer than a traditional ringmaster. A master of vocal effects, Bazinet plays an imaginary game of catch with the spectators and effortlessly incorporates an audience member into a hilarious Wild West shoot...
...charges: that Seagal was a bigamist when he was courting his current wife, actress Kelly LeBrock; that two female aides were paid to keep quiet about his sexual harassment of them; that among his friends are kinfolk of various godfathers and gonifs. "Steven likes to hang out with the underworld of espionage," says J.F. Lawton, who wrote Under Siege, "and maybe also of crime. But I don't see Steven rubbing anyone out. And if you have Michael Ovitz behind you, you don't really need...
...then up to Paris correspondent Margot Hornblower to weave the reports into a single story. Associate editor Michael Serrill wrote an accompanying piece on the corruption of children. Both stories were informed by the personal insights of our reporters as they moved through this grimy underworld. "At a strip club, I tried to convince a Flemish anesthesiologist that I didn't work there," recalls the Brussels bureau's Susanna Schrobsdorff. "Thinking he was being snubbed by a prostitute, he screamed a barrage of insults, smashed his glass, then stomped out." It was that kind of story...
...COULD BLAME ITALIANS FOR CHOOSING change -- lots of change? Disgusted by a yearlong parade of elite politicians and businessmen charged with corruption, thievery and underworld connections, voters last week gave a resounding yes to eight referendum questions, thereby fundamentally altering the way candidates for the Senate are elected. Acknowledging this display of popular will as a signal that Italians feel their political system no longer works, Prime Minister Giuliano Amato resigned after 10 months of holding together a much reviled coalition Cabinet. Referring to the voters' decision to repudiate nearly 50 years of Italian party politics, Amato declared...