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...section of "Voyage," Scorsese says this about women in the world of Fellini and his alter-ego hero, the movie director Guido: "He can love them, he can use them, he can ignore or worship them. But he can't control them." This is a sharp observation, but not quite so passionately expressed as his remarks about Guido's difficulty in getting his next film started - the subject of "8-1/2": "In order to make the movie you want to make, you need time. But that's the hardest thing to find when you're a filmmaker." Scorsese...
RELIGIOUS SURVEILLANCE FBI leadership, interpreting guidelines strictly, ordered agents to stop at the door when it came to mosques and other houses of worship. The bureau also frowned on casing speakers, speeches and audiences at political rallies...
...Toby Young details his belly flop in the New York journalism pool in "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People" (Da Capo; July 4). Kirkus enjoys the dish. "Kiss-and-tell memoir of Young's ill-fated stint as contributing editor at Vanity Fair magazine... This skewering of celebrity worship at the nation's leading 'upscale supermarket tabloid' bears a distinct resemblance to shooting fish in a barrel; nonetheless, Young's language is energetic and engaging, making one wish (along with his father, apparently) that he'd find a worthier subject. Enjoyably bitchy specifics of Cond? Nast culture, buried beneath...
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...11th century, a Pagan King banned the sacrifice of animals at the rocky crag. He also started constructing temples and monasteries at its summit in an effort to curtail nat worship in order to establish Buddhism's dominance. He had only mixed success. Today, Popa Daung Kalat is one of Burma's major pilgrimage sites; visited by a steady stream of Burmese who turn to the nats to resolve problems in this life, and look to Buddhism for assurances in the next...