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...emerald part of Ireland--its lush countryside--is on vivid display just a 30-minute drive (or bus ride) away at Powerscourt, a 14th century castle whose gardens unfold among the Wicklow Mountains. Renovated and expanded in the 17th century by the English Marshall of Ireland, the castle is a jewel of Georgian formality that has served as movie backdrop for Laurence Olivier's Henry V and Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon. Even if it's raining--and by St. Patrick, it's likely to be--spend some time along the trails winding through the 45-acre castle gardens...
...inspections that both delay the march to war and, key Administration officials insist, are a fundamentally inadequate safeguard against Saddam's weapons of mass destruction ambitions. So even as Secretary of State Colin Powell continues to arm-wrestle his counterparts at the UN, Washington's war plans continue to unfold - from seeking a congressional green light for action to stepped up U.S.-British bombing of Iraqi air defense systems and reported moves to shift heavy U.S. bomber aircraft closer to the Gulf...
...achieve this feel, virtually every element of the film, from cast to camerawork, borrows enthusiastically from combat cinema's archives. One scene will be shot in the flickery black-and-white of the Godzilla genre, another will unfold entirely in Japanese anim?. Tarantino even sent his cinematographer, Oscar winner Bob Richardson (Platoon, JFK, Wall Street), lists of must-see Samurai and Shaw Brothers' classics like Five Fingers of Death and One Armed Swordsman as a pre-production crash course in the camerawork of the kick-flick canon...
Iain Pears' The Dream of Scipio (Riverhead; 398 pages) ticks along at a slower, statelier pace, more like a grandfather clock. Set in Provence, it tells three stories from three eras that unfold in parallel: a 5th century Roman sophisticate faces the fall of his empire; a Renaissance man stares down the Black Death; and a French classicist watches as his country is overrun by the Germans in World War II. The thread connecting these three men is an ancient philosophical manuscript that each man encounters, but the real bond among them is that they face a common paradox. Civilization...
...house was packed, 12,000 strong, for the fourth annual Bollywood Awards. At the food kiosks in the lobby, patrons lined up for jalebi, aloo vada and samosa chole. Onstage, Indian TV chat maven Ruby Bhatia provided hyperbolic introductions ("His immense talent is about to unfold on this very stage!") to a dozen or so Indian musical acts that whipped the crowd into a cheerful frenzy. And subcontinental film celebrities came by to accept awards in such categories as Best Villain, Best Comic and Most Sensational Female...