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Israeli public discourse inclines more towards irreverence than sentimentality, so it should come as no surprise that comedians are making hay out of the one-year anniversary of the stroke that felled former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, leaving him in a coma from which he has shown no sign of recovering...
...comic narrative tends to focus on what would happen if Sharon suddenly woke up: As one columnist had it, the ravenous statesman munches a few of his favorite falafels, then asks a hospital orderly what has happened in Israel while he was asleep. After hearing all the grim news, starting with the fact that his underling Ehud Olmert had snatched his job and blown it, he decides that a coma is better than reality, and drifts back to sleep...
...Bush Administration, coached by then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, embraced the notion that the reason there was no peace between Israel and the Palestinians was the nefarious maneuvering of Arafat. The Palestinian leader - elected in a race that could hardly be described as competitive - was an incorrigible autocrat, who had accumulated massive amounts of political and financial power in his own hands, bypassing the elected legislature and democratic institutions. He was running the Palestinian Authority as his personal fiefdom, the argument went, stoking militancy and blocking the emergence of a moderate consensus through his political control...
...Seems like everybody wants a little piece of that Kennedy magic—Anthony Hopkins, Lindsay Lohan, Sharon Stone, Elijah Wood, William H. Macy, Demi Moore, Martin Sheen, Heather Graham, Helen Hunt, and Christian Slater to name a few. Unfortunately, this over-the-top movie star-apalooza merely signals what’s to come—a bombardment of hyperbolic political maxims and religious statements that are better suited for an Al Sharpton rally than a thoughtful movie...
Fortunately for the viewer, many of the actors (particularly Lindsay Lohan of “Mean Girls” and Sharon Stone of “Basic Instict”) imbue their performances with such sincerity that the hackneyed dialogue works on occasion. As Miriam, the Ambassador’s hair stylist, Stone is riveting. In a film where few of the supposedly “average” characters appear realistic, Stone brings remarkable poise and depth to her role. When she looks at her cheating husband, Paul (William H. Macy), Stone’s silence speaks volumes...