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...well-informed expert is Vincent Cannistraro, head of counterterrorism at the CIA during the Bush Administration. "Command and control of Hamas," he says, "is not coming from the U.S. There are not more than 10 or 15 members here, and there is no operational nerve center here." He believes that the headquarters is in Iran and that most of the funding comes from Arab states in the Middle East. Bruce Hoffman, the Rand Corp.'s terrorism expert, says, "I'd look to Tehran or Damascus as the control center." As to financing, Hoffman adds, "My suspicion is that the money...
...Harriet Westbrook, Bysshe's legal wife who goes insane, Susan B. McConnel performs a convincing and disturbing monologue before drowning herself. After this scene, she is reduced to gratuitous appearances as a silent ghost. Vincent d'Errico is appropriately prissy and deluded as Dr. William Polidori, the small-minded biographer who hangs around the writers and turns up his nose at their liberated lifestyle...
...then a message of racial unity had to be played up in numerous wartime morale-boosting movies. More diverse images of Blacks proliferated in Hollywood--major studios even made Black cast movies of their own (i.e. MGM's "Cabin in the Sky" (1943) directed by Vincent Minelli and starring Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Lena Horne and Ethel Waters)--so the independent race movie makers were squeezed out of the market, unable to compete with the slickness and polish of higher budget Hollywood films...
...THIS FOR ALIVE, DIRECTOR FRANK Marshall's version of the Piers Paul Read best seller about a 1972 Andes plane crash that forced its surviving passengers to cannibalism: early on, the movie has a great avalanche. After that, it's all downhill. The acting (Ethan Hawke and Vincent Spano are the stars) starts at a pitch of whiny hysteria and rarely lets up. The dialogue, by ace playwright John Patrick Shanley, sounds as if poorly translated from the Spanish: "What have we done that God now asks us to eat the bodies of our own dead friends?" Dissing aside, that...
...well-known incident of such racial scapegoating occurred in 1982, when Vincent Chine, a Chinese-American, was murdered by a white auto worker who thought he was Japanese. Asian-Americans are tired of being mistrusted, accused and sometimes physically injured for "stealing" jobs that supposedly belong to American workers...