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More recently, Denzel Washington portrayed royal white villain Richard III in this part summer's Central Park Shakespeare series, sponsored by The New York Public Theatre. "We have been casting across racial lines since producer Joseph Papp started the Theatre in 1954" explains a Theatre spokesperson. "Morgan Freeman appeared recently in our production of The Taming of the Shrew...
Keating was the most visible villain last week in an S&L debacle that could cost Americans as much as $1 trillion, or some $30 a month for every household over the next four decades. In inflation-adjusted dollars, that is nearly twice the cost of the Vietnam War and almost four times the cost of the Korean conflict. So far, the government has seized more than 490 insolvent thrifts, or nearly one-fifth the entire industry. An additional 600 are troubled and may fail...
Berkeley Rep's production benefits from fluid, cinematic staging by the company's artistic director, Sharon Ott, and a highly adaptable village-square setting by Kate Edmunds. The production is so good that even a predictable climax -- the villain's armed intrusion at the wedding of a shepherd he despises and a maiden he means to rape -- achieves the abrupt power of surprise. Among a solid ensemble cast, Jack Heller is a wonderfully hissable overlord, full of chill arrogance and hot rage, and Domenique Lozano and Stephen Burks are the most affecting of his victims. The chief asset, however...
...would be overly optimistic to hope that the global encirclement of Saddam will serve as a model for coping with future regional conflicts. The world response to the Kuwaiti crisis is a special case because the stakes -- oil -- are so high and because Saddam has played such a textbook villain. No such unanimity could be expected if, for example, India invaded Pakistan, Senegal made a move on Gambia, or Bolivia rumbled into Paraguay. In effect, this first test of the post-cold war security structure is a relatively simple one. But that is all the more reason why the forces...
...encourage Hindi filmmakers to resort to such exploitation. Another factor, observers believe, has its roots in the fabric of a society in which most marriages are still arranged and unmarried men even today have little access to women, let alone romance or sex. Ranjeet, 44, the popular Hindi movie villain who has enacted more than 350 rape scenes during a 19-year career, explains the phenomenon in terms of sexual deprivation. Says he: "Because people live in a repressive society, they are sex starved. Filmmakers cash in on this...