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Directed by Wolfgang Becker...
Good Bye, Lenin!, a huge hit in Germany and across Europe, may sound like sitcom stuff, a wacky mistaken-identity plot inflated to national dimensions. In fact, as handled with expert tenderness by director and co-writer Wolfgang Becker, the trope works splendidly as both political metaphor and love story. If some Iraqis can look back with a twisted longing on the more orderly days of Saddam's rule, why can't East Germans get a little misty over the Honecker regime? As they do. It's called Ostalgie, or Eastalgia. The film taps the universal suspicion that whatever...
...Dunster House Opera Society presents their last two performances of Cosi Fan Tutte, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s final comic opera. The story follows the travails of Ferrando and Guglielmo, two arrogant young officers who decide to test the loyalty of their beautiful fiancées after the sceptical Don Alfonso questions their sweethearts’ devotion. Hilarity ensues as the opera unravels to expose the deceitful nature of love. Tickets $9 regular, $10 at door, $7 students, $6 Dunster residents. Friday, Feb. 27 at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28 at 8:30 p.m. Dunster House Dining Hall...
...Wolfgang Petersen, the German director who has won worldwide audiences for manly crises under the water (Das Boot), on its roiling surface (The Perfect Storm) and in the sky (Air Force One), wants to take The Iliad out of schoolroom memories. His notion is to vacuum off the cobwebs and make it a vivid adventure that will appeal equally to adults who have a yawning familiarity with the story and to children for whom Homer is only Bart's bald, dundering...
...bidding for DaimlerChrysler's MTU, which makes military aircraft engines, and is also expected to fetch about €1.5 billion. Industry sources say Carlyle wants to put the two together. But first it must outbid U.S. rivals such as KKR and the Blackstone Group. And Economy Minister Wolfgang Clement said this month he wants the firm to remain German. Carlyle is betting that the MTU-Fiat combination may be the "European solution" needed to satisfy the Germans. Milking The Customer Voters in Seattle, Washington, are steamed over a September ballot proposal to slap a 10? surcharge on any espresso-based...