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...time goes by, I have less and less interest in acting in movies," Gibson admits. "It's like a hobby. It isn't the hunger I had before." Instead, he's looking for directing projects. He had been planning to direct "Hamlet" onstage with Robert Downey Jr. in Los Angeles before Downey was arrested on drug-related charges on Nov. 25. "He would knock your socks off," says Gibson, sounding sad and frustrated. "I don't think even he knows it. I hope he gets it together...
...questionable. The path to political power appears to pass through a forest of ethnic rivalry rather than cohesion, and the political parties remain divided along ethnic lines. Houphouet's success in leading Cote d'Ivoire lay in his understanding of the ethnic diversity of the country. His successors have instead played up ethnic tensions in their bids to retain power, and the disenfranchisement of the vast majority of Ivorians in this electoral process has been ignored in favor of short-term political stability...
...Tang return to their hallmark minimalist, sample-based sound, la Enter the 36 Chambers. Refreshingly, the synthesizer is used more discreetly on The W than Wu-Tang Forever. Instead, the clan's talented producer RZA injects '70s soul (including "I Can't Go To Sleep", which features Isaac Hayes), reggae and even spy-movie themes into the tracks. ("One Blood Under W," one of The W's gems, begins with a memorable sample of the James Bond theme...
There is no gripping plot in Unbreakable. Rather, the movie appears to be more of an intellectual journey asking questions about what is possible. The believability of Dunn's survival and subsequent discoveries is not debated extensively, but instead is used as evidence to ascertain why such a survival is possible. The entire middle section of the movie is devoted to Dunn's deciding whether to believe Elijah's hypothesis about the accident. Shyamalan does an effective job of bringing the viewer along with the characters; the evidence Dunn considers and the conclusions he reaches are clear and seem logical...
...unexpectedly robust Buchanan vote was the earliest hint of madness in the post-election haze of November 8. Thousands of voters complained that the ballot's confusing design had led them to punch hole No. 4, for Pat Buchanan and Ezola Foster (odd, certainly, for a heavily Jewish community) instead of hole No. 5, for Gore and Joe Lieberman. (The ballot design had been approved by a Democrat, who was trying to enlarge the type for the benefit of those same largely elderly voters...