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...Ivan Barnev) is a little guy - short in stature, and short on political awareness and social conscience as well. He's just someone who wants to get rich as quickly as possible, which in the course of I Served the King of England he briefly does. When we meet him, however, he is being discharged, penniless, from a Communist-era Czechoslovakian prison, having served a term of almost 15 years because more or less accidentally, and certainly without malice aforethought, he ended up - very profitably - on the Nazi side during the war. After jail, he's exiled to a remote...
...Menzel's friend and collaborator for decades. Menzel's finest film, Closely Watched Trains, which won the foreign film Academy Award in 1967, was based on a Hrabal story about a feckless railroad worker who entirely by accident becomes a hero during World War II. I Served the King of England, the Czech Republic's entry for the 2008 Academy Awards, is very much a part of that pattern. Menzel's movies are never barn burners. They have a gentle, slightly wandering air about them, which puts them at a competitive disadvantage in the international market, which prefers films that...
...politicians and ideologues who would engineer the human soul. And they never quite understand why they are carelessly chosen for exile, prison or death. There's something eerie in the serene way they accept their fates. But there's something sweetly comical about it, too. I Served the King of England may not be a totally riveting movie, but it is, in its gently insinuating way, a curiously rewarding...
...business--yet unable to find a buyer given the collapse of the credit markets--Cadbury spun off its soft-drinks unit as the Dr Pepper Snapple Group earlier this year, leaving it once again a stand-alone candy company. And a relatively diminished one. Cadbury was dethroned as the king of candy by the surprise buyout of Wrigley by Mars, giving Mars-Wrigley a 14.4% share of the global confectionery market, compared with Cadbury's 10.1%, according to Wachovia Capital Markets...
...apparently saving their contact information - Rove has built up the best e-mail list of opinion makers in the business. Those players suddenly find themselves on the receiving end of mass mailings from Rove every time he pens a new op-ed piece, enhancing his reputation as the king of direct mail...