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...Korea made balky protests and stood on edgy alert. Yet to judge from some of the movies in this now world-class national cinema, you'd think the South's biggest political problem was the repression of its own postwar decades. In the 1970s its film industry produced a number of anti-Communist films; Dachimawa Lee is a parody of these gung-ho, better-dead-than-Red melodramas. That might register only as more grousing from the artistic Left, if the movie weren't so wildly and encyclopedically entertaining - a sendup and evocation of spy movies, with some great martial...
...reincarnated, as himself. Originally a series of spots for MTV India, the feature version is lovingly, lavishly, almost libelously indebted to Sergio Leone spaghetti Westerns. It also makes passing reference to The Terminator, Pulp Fiction and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - and, since every Indian film needs a production number, it filches a song from the 1968 Tamil musical Oli Vilakku. By the end, when Quick Gun comes out blazing with eight gun-totin' arms, the movie has fulfilled the agenda of the NYAFF: to render its audience happy and helpless with head-swiveling astonishment...
...Despite the layoffs, Jaeger said he remained optimistic that all laid-off HUCTW staff would be able to find replacement jobs at the University, especially given the generous severance packages and job placement services provided for affected workers. The number of jobs posted throughout the University is sizable and growing, Jaeger said, adding that on the day the layoffs were announced last week, he counted 233 available jobs on the University's Web site. On Thursday, he said he noticed 17 new HUCTW job postings...
...soccer team began a downward slide that has not stopped. The country has not qualified for a World Cup tournament since 1982 and became the first team worldwide to be eliminated from competition for the 2010 cup in South Africa. There are talented individual players on the squad, a number playing abroad, but they simply do not excel as a team...
Another unexpected female star is Sofia Mulanovich, the first Peruvian (and Latin American) to win an Association of Professional Surfers' world championship. Her name was engraved on the National Stadium a few years back. Mulanovich is also highly popular, but following in her footsteps is limited by a number of factors, including the basic necessity of being close to surfing waves...