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...classic short tour of Egypt includes three or four days in Cairo and four days on the Nile. Here's how to do the tour in the very best style at moderate expense...
...depiction of Nango, The Thirteen Steps resembles Akira Kurosawa's 1952 classic Ikiru, which tells the story of a cancer-stricken bureaucrat who tries to redeem his stuck-in-the-mud existence by building a neighborhood playground. Like Ikiru's Kanji Watanabe, Nango is in a race against time to make amends for a lifetime of dutiful work by which he now feels poisoned. But compared to Kurosawa's characters, these protagonists are less deftly rendered. Nango's fanatical devotion to the case makes him the personification of a guilty conscience rather than a flesh and blood character...
Fans of Chinese film rejoice: Gong Li is back. Star of the mainland-Chinese classic Raise the Red Lantern, Gong Li took a break from acting to live as a housewife in Singapore for the past few years. But with the contemporary drama Zhou Yu's Train, she returns to the screen in a familiar role: the dreamy, ethereal beauty drowning in doomed love. Gong Li's sculpted cheekbones and anguished eyes are up to the task, but the self-conscious Zhou Yu's Train never quite manages to pull out of the station...
...said yes when the NGO Ntengwe for Community Development asked him to work with the Binga orphans on their recording, which will raise funds for a trust benefiting them and their destitute communities. And that's why he has written so much about aids, including Todii, a Tuku classic with its lilting guitar lines and searching call-and-response, and the mournful Mabasa, which asks, "Who will feed whom since the breadwinners are all dying?" Mtukudzi is not dismissing Zimbabwe's shorter-term struggles. For instance, last fall, he helped start the Music for Food Collective, whose concerts help raise...
...Cenerentola,” which follows the Cinderella tale almost to a tee, plays a few of its own tricks on the classic story: Prince Charming (the Italian Prince Ramiro, played by Frank C. Napolitano ’05) disguises himself as his personal valet (all the better to be the voyeur with, my dear!), and a pair of golden bracelets replaces the glass slipper Cinderella leaves on the ballroom steps, so that none of the actors go unshod—a distinct taboo in the days of Roman censors...