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...actor, who died in January at 28 of an accidental prescription-drug overdose, is magnificent. Echoing the sly psychopathy and scary singsong voice of Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Ledger!), Ledger carries in him the deranged threat of a punk star like Sid Vicious, whom he supposedly took as one of the models for his character. The Joker observes no rules, pursues no grand scheme; he's the terrorist as improv artist. Evil is his tenor sax, Armageddon his melody. Why, he might blow up a hospital or turn ordinary people into mass murderers to save...
...banned militant groups from across Pakistan, gathered near the site of the Red Mosque to commemorate the death of some 100 militants and students who had faced down the Pakistani security forces in a standoff that rocked Pakistan. The nine-day siege, code-named "Operation Silence," culminated in a vicious firefight in the usually tranquil capital that killed the mosque's firebrand prayer leader, Abdul Rashid Ghazi. At the end the mosque was still standing, but the seminary, or madrassa, had been reduced to rubble...
...name by then, and his audience was usually entranced enough by the insights he offered to accept all the dross that accompanied them. More important, he began to seem like a symbolic figure of the moment - the victim-saint fighting back against the clueless and often vicious Establishment. Richard Nixon had the capacity to do that to his distinctly disloyal opponents...
...years old, growing up in America," he once declared. As a matter of historical fact, that statement was downright bizarre. When Reagan was 6, in 1917, women and most blacks couldn't vote, and America's entry into World War I was whipping up an anti-German frenzy so vicious that some towns in Reagan's native Midwest banned the playing of Beethoven and Brahms. But for Reagan, who sometimes confused movies with real life, history usually meant myth. In his mind, American history was the saga of brave, good-hearted men and women battling daunting odds but forever trying...
...real-life family events: when he was 10, his maternal grandfather drowned himself, and his grandmother spiraled into drug addiction. The rest of the outré plot twists--from money squabbles to incest--are invented, he says. Still, the shocking portrait of a pill-popping, mentally unstable, almost pathologically vicious matriarch (played by Deanna Dunagan) was close enough to reality that he had qualms about showing the play to his mother. "I knew it would be difficult for her to read," he says. "But her response was, 'I think you've been very kind to my mother...