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...office success. Her movie has a riveting - and bankable - young star, Samantha Morton (Minority Report). It has a respectable budget, $6 million, and a hip provenance: it's based on Alan Warner's 1995 cult novel, which was part of a Scottish literary charge that also yielded Irving Welsh's Trainspotting - and that became an international smash-hit movie. And if any further proof were needed that Morvern Callar isn't destined to be just another much-lauded "little film," it wasn't even shortlisted this year at Cannes. Ramsay's response to the Cannes disappointment was, she says...
...happy." The authorities in her adopted home may have similar problems: Hadid has not had one project get off the ground after nearly three decades in the U.K. The closest she came was with an opera house for Cardiff; she won the competition, but her design got buried by Welsh political intrigue. "It was a nightmare," says Hadid. "Nowadays it's less the open competition system. They get you to do a sketch and you go to a meeting and they decide whether they can work with you or not. This doesn't help those who are not part...
...singer-guitarist Nate Albert, formerly of Boston legends the Mighty Mighty Bosstones; album drummer Joe Sirois still plays for the Bosstones, though he is replaced on tour by the capable Jamie Vavra. Guitarist Johnny Rioux was once the ‘Tones’ guitar tech, and bassist Mickey Welsh is hardly anonymous either: he used to play with Weezer. The band came together informally last fall, but found themselves a band when their studio sessions were reported by VH1. Their first release, Osaka, was issued this past April by the newly formed independent label Fenway Records and received positive...
...Tory party, including leader Iain Duncan Smith, but prompted jeers from his fellow Labour members, 53 of whom staged a rally Tuesday night, protesting the possibility of military action in Iraq. The Labour rebels were joined by several other MPs, including most of the Scottish Nationalist contingent and four Welsh representatives...
...Rifai has one last ace up the sleeve of his jellaba robes, however. Jordan has a special resonance for fans of T.E. Lawrence, the Welsh soldier who united the disparate Arab tribes to fight alongside the British against the Turks in World War I. Since his 1935 death in a motorcycle crash, the mythology surrounding Lawrence has cast him as the ultimate romantic adventurer. Counting on the draw of his legend to revive their flagging fortunes, the tourist authorities have inaugurated a series of Lawrence theme tours that follow in the footsteps of the man portrayed with equal measures...