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		<title>A Most Uncomfortable Parallel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What Clement Attlee can teach the Right about Barack Obama 
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Let’s just agree that if you are looking for someone with whom to compare Barack Obama, the mid-20th-century British prime minister Clement Attlee does not come immediately to mind. Some might opt for FDR, some the Messiah, others the Antichrist or, harsher still, Jimmy Carter. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=369</link>
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		<title>Resistance Is Futile</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The triumph of the Eurocrats over the peoples of Europe.
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive&#8211;at least if you were Valéry Marie René Georges Giscard d&#8217;Estaing. The one-term president of France was awarded the job in 2002 of chairing the convention responsible for designing a constitution for the European Union. He compared his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=363</link>
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		<title>Paying for the Piper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A very British scandal wreaks havoc in the mother of parliaments.
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France is a famously volatile place. Talk of cake can trigger a revolution. The British are made of more phlegmatic stuff. Pastry alone would never do the trick. What it takes, it turns out, are a tea caddy, jellied eels, vitamin supplements, a sandwich cage [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=298</link>
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		<title>Swiss, Cross</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The point of that pointless minaret referendum.

So far, so predictable. The now infamous referendum amending Switzerland’s constitution in a way that prohibits the construction of any more minarets in the land of Heidi (there are already, um, four) has been damned by the usual suspects, including a gaggle of Christian clergymen, a babble of media, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=361</link>
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		<title>Walking With Destiny</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Churchill,
by Paul Johnson
(Viking,
192 pp., $24.95)
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One of the most remarkable aspects of Winston Churchill’s sprawling epic of a life was the way that he was able to cram it all in — to do all that — in a mere 90 years. It is only marginally less miraculous that Paul Johnson has now managed to make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=355</link>
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		<title>Intellectual Feast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Infuriated by the high-church, high-Tory critiques of a British historian impertinent enough to suggest that the tercentenary of England’s Glorious Revolution of 1688 was not worth celebrating, Mrs. Thatcher’s then Lord Chancellor jibed that “academic historians never make their money by saying that the established truth is true.” I’m not sure what the late Baron [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=276</link>
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		<title>The Borgomeister</title>
		<description><![CDATA[


 



Werner Herzog’s interpretation of Nosferatu stands the test of time.
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There’s a long, unrespectable tradition of vampires’ being unable to decide whether we humans are lunch, lovers, or a bite of both. My irritation at coming across a pile of Twilights and their no-less-sensitive kin heaped under the heading “undying love” in a neighborhood Barnes &#38; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=353</link>
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		<title>Never such innocence again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Except for the vague impression of a heavily built, benignly gruff, occasionally encountered man
with short silver hair, I cannot claim to remember my great-uncle Tom very well. Tom Royden was, I understand, an English country doctor of the old school with a lady friend down the road, a
flourishing practice, a keen interest in songbirds, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=338</link>
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		<title>Playing the Joker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new Obama poster has brought on much hysteria, but also genuine concerns. 
If the right to vote (or not vote) for our leaders is a sign of a healthy democracy, so is the right not just to criticize, but also to insult them. Jeering, heckling, and rude, impious laughter are no less a part [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=279</link>
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		<title>Lord Ha-Ha</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The aesthete-aristocrat who was always in on the joke. 



 
Lord Berners
 Composer Writer Painter
by Peter Dickinson
Boydell Press, 214 pp., $47.95
It is easier to describe the appearance of Gerald Tyrwhitt (1883-1950), the 14th, and strangest, Lord Berners, than the man himself. In his short story The Love-Bird, Osbert Sitwell gave his hero (a version of Berners) a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=336</link>
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		<title>Destination Moon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking back 40 years to the first man on the Moon.





I don’t know where I was when I heard that JFK had been shot, but I can remember where I was at teatime the following day — at home in the east of England, watching the very first episode of Doctor Who. It was the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=329</link>
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		<title>Paying for the Piper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A very British scandal wreaks havoc in the mother of parliaments.
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France is a famously volatile place. Talk of cake can trigger a revolution. The British are made of more phlegmatic stuff. Pastry alone would never do the trick. What it takes, it turns out, are a tea caddy, jellied eels, vitamin supplements, a sandwich cage [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=332</link>
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		<title>Millionaires&#8217; Brawl</title>
		<description><![CDATA[America&#8217;s real power struggle: super rich liberals vs. ordinary
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With the economy floundering, Wall Street in disgrace, and American capitalism facing its most serious ideological challenge in one, two, or three generations (you can take your pick), it&#8217;s a good moment to remember Lenin. While the bearded Bolshevik&#8217;s grasp of economics was never the best and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=322</link>
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		<title>The Prince</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Giulio Andreotti, Italy&#8217;s ultimate Machiavellian, is unforgettably portrayed in a brilliant new film.



To listen to what is not said is often as informative as hearing what is. Absence can reveal as much as presence, the opaque more than the clear. It is this idea, brilliantly conveyed, that runs through the performance that dominates Il Divo, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=325</link>
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		<title>The Sum of All Fears, Questions of fate and faith permeate the would-be blockbuster &#8220;Knowing&#8221;.</title>
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Things are bad out there, you know, really bad: The economy is in a shambles, Iran’s mullahs are monkeying around with nukes, Michael Jackson is planning a comeback, and the S&#38;P recently bottomed out (for now) at the number of the beast. Nevertheless, as &#8220;Knowing&#8221; director Alex Proyas’s endearingly apocalyptic, thoroughly entertaining, and ultimately goofy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=307</link>
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		<title>The Sum of All Fears</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Questions of fate and faith permeate the would-be blockbuster Knowing.
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Things are bad out there, you know, really bad: The economy is in a shambles, Iran’s mullahs are monkeying around with nukes, Michael Jackson is planning a comeback, and the S&#38;P recently bottomed out (for now) at the number of the beast. Nevertheless, as Knowing director [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=317</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Space Chimps&#8217; on a Wild Ride Through Outer Space</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Alan Shepard returned safely to Earth late in the Gagarin spring of 1961, a relieved, ecstatic nation treated him to ticker tape, meet-the-president, and, subsequently, a trip to the moon. The previous astronaut sent by NASA into space hadn&#8217;t fared quite so well. Emerging snarling and indignant from an edge-of-disaster suborbital shambles that was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=271</link>
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		<title>Holding Up A Shattered Mirror</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to movie do-overs, the recklessly sexy Naomi Watts just cannot keep herself out of trouble. In remakes of &#8220;Ringu&#8221; (&#8220;The Ring&#8221;) and &#8220;King Kong,&#8221; she found herself stalked by, respectively, a monstrous spirit and a rampaging ape. If, as has been reported, she stars in an upcoming reworking of Alfred Hitchcock&#8217;s &#8220;The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fight for Your Right To Fight: &#8216;Battle in Seattle&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One doesn&#8217;t have to agree politically with a movie to appreciate the skill with which it was made or, for that matter, to enjoy it. To combine a bad film, however, with worse politics is to add insult to injury, which brings us to the topic of &#8220;Battle in Seattle,&#8221; a ham-fisted, sanctimonious blend of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=274</link>
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		<title>The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: &#8216;The Duchess&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Barely more than a decade after that tragic dash through Paris and the unhinged, hysterical carnival of lamentation that followed, it is no great surprise that Princess Diana continues to cast a shadow over popular culture, particularly in the country where she once seemed destined to be queen. It is, nonetheless, disappointing to detect that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=273</link>
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		<title>Dragging Kennedy Into a New Fight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At its best, counterfactual or &#8220;virtual&#8221; history (to use Harvard historian Niall Ferguson&#8217;s term), the exploration of what might have happened if history had not taken a certain turn, can be a fascinating intellectual exercise, a &#8220;what if&#8221; that illuminates what did happen. Unfortunately, &#8220;Virtual JFK: Vietnam if Kennedy Had Lived,&#8221; which begins a two-week [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=272</link>
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		<title>Imitation Jules</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On March 9, 1886, poor, deranged Gaston Verne shot his uncle Jules, the French writer often credited with the invention of science fiction. The great man survived, but if he&#8217;d known what filmmakers would do with his books in the centuries to follow, he probably would have reached for that revolver himself.
The latest movie to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=270</link>
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		<title>The Man Who Would Be Khan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On vacation some years ago in a post-communist Mongolia now free to venerate its most famous son, I asked one of the locals if he thought Genghis Khan, the founder and posthumously declared emperor of what became the largest contiguous empire in history, had been, well, just a touch brutal. &#8220;Oh, yes,&#8221; came the reply, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=269</link>
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		<title>A Cabinet of Soviet Curiosities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes the smallest of things can illuminate the largest. A fossil tells the story of massive planetary change, a line or two of poetry does more to explain trench warfare than a dozen history books, and the miniatures of Nicholas Hilliard bring Gloriana&#8217;s long vanished England back to iridescent, dangerous life. In writing &#8220;Lenin&#8217;s Brain&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=268</link>
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		<title>Making the Modern Iron Man</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With its dusty Humvees, violent Afghan battlefields, and worries about the munitions business, the upcoming &#8220;Iron Man&#8221; is a film set firmly in 2008. That&#8217;ll do, I suppose, but what was wrong with 1963? If there&#8217;s any tale that deserves the chance to return to the sheen, swank, and soul of its Rat Pack, space-age, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=267</link>
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		<title>Cops Gone Wild</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;People sleep peaceably in their beds at night,&#8221; George Orwell once wrote, &#8220;only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.&#8221;
That society sanctions the use of force to protect itself is neither surprising nor controversial. What we debate instead is how rough those men can be and how, exactly, they can be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=266</link>
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		<title>Children of the Revolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is fair to assume that any volume with space for a discussion of the &#8220;crisis&#8221; in mid-20th-century Soviet children&#8217;s theater is aimed at a specialist audience. That said, if the subject of &#8220;Children&#8217;s World&#8221; (Yale University Press, 736 pages, $45), Oxford professor Catriona Kelly&#8217;s immense, imaginative, and thoroughly researched new book — a history [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=263</link>
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		<title>Spies Like Us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mark Ruttenberg, the hero of &#8220;An Ordinary Spy&#8221; (Bloomsbury, 288 pages, $23.95), Joseph Weisberg&#8217;s deft, sour, and clever new novel of espionage, bureaucracy, and disenchantment, is — it is true — a spy. But he&#8217;s no James Bond.
Just read what happens, or doesn&#8217;t, when he shows up for a celebration at the Russian embassy in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting for a Lonely Planet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hell may not, whatever Jean-Paul Sartre once wrote, be &#8220;other people,&#8221; but other people, or what&#8217;s left of them, certainly conspire to mess up the second half of &#8220;I Am Legend,&#8221; a movie that was, until then, developing into one of the finest science fiction movies of recent years.
In his retelling of Richard Matheson&#8217;s harsh, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=261</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Worry, You Can Take the Family</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is a measure of the genius of the British novelist Philip Pullman that when, less than 30 pages into his book &#8220;The Golden Compass,&#8221; 12-year-old Lyra Belacqua angrily objects to the refusal of her (supposed) uncle Asriel to take her to the frozen, fabled northlands, most readers will understand and agree with her. &#8220;I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Happy Two</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the more poignant features of the current competition among Republican presidential hopefuls, fiercely fighting for a chance to lose to Senator Clinton in 2008, has been a series of missions to Maggie. Mitt Romney saw Margaret Thatcher, the former British prime minister, late last year in Washington, D.C., while Fred Thompson and Rudy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=258</link>
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		<title>False Dawn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The disparate, jostling artistic movements grouped together and loosely labeled as &#8220;modernist&#8221; may have been gathering pace before 1914, but it was the moral, spiritual, and physical devastation left by four years of war that allowed them to play such a prominent role within the cultural avant-garde of what remained of Europe.
&#8220;Graphic Modernism From the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Godfather, Part I: Stalin as a Boy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Josef Stalin finally succumbed to the stroke he so richly deserved, a distraught Pablo Neruda mourned the death of this &#8220;giant. &#8230; the noon, the maturity of man and the peoples.&#8221; Such attitudes are, mercifully, now rare. Once known genially as &#8220;Uncle Joe,&#8221; Stalin is now regularly reviled as a monster and a despot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday Morning Classic Literature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mighty Beowulf fought for glory, honor, and immortal renown. If, however, the hero of that ancient Anglo-Saxon epic had been unlucky enough to see three recent movies inspired by his exploits, he would, I reckon, have opted instead for obscurity.
The first, Graham Baker&#8217;s &#8220;Beowulf&#8221; (1999), was an incoherent fiasco starring Christopher &#8220;Highlander&#8221; Lambert, and set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Search of the Inner Shaman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There once was a glorious, splendid, self-confident epoch, back in the reign of the blessed Eisenhower, when a director from the West could shoot a film about remote, mysterious Mongolia with minimal authenticity, fearless inaccuracy, and cultural crassness so epic that it could feature John Wayne as the young Genghis, Susan Hayward as Bortai, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh Captain, My Captain! Kirk and me.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It wasn&#8217;t on some alien world that we saw him, but in a Midtown Manhattan steakhouse. He wasn&#8217;t battling Romulans or Klingons, just a gigantic piece of meat; Porterhouse, if I had to guess. My parents had flown in on a Jumbo from England the day before and he, well, he had flown in on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hearts of Darkness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the course of humanity&#8217;s long, violent history, there was one brief, happy interlude, a decade or so on either side of 1900, when those fortunate enough to live in the more advanced parts of the planet were able to persuade themselves that barbarism had been banished from their culture, never to return. To those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the Land Of Mammon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite unprecedented social, political, economic, and cultural upheaval, there is, still, just a part of this country&#8217;s vision of itself that is forever Bedford Falls. That was an idea of nation as extended community, diverse, but not too diverse, a land of opportunity, certainly, but one where no one was left too far behind, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dangerous Litigation: Our new gilded age on FX.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If the summer schedules were once a sun-ravaged, derelict playground for television&#8217;s has-beens, no-hopers, bums, and re-runs, that&#8217;s no longer inevitably the case, at least so far as cable is concerned. In recent weeks, TNT has launched Saving Grace, a show starring Holly Hunter as a self-destructive detective being bugged by an angel, while AMC [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1688 and All That</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Clio, that most elusive of Muses, can be glimpsed, but never caught. The interpretation of history is forever in flux, as much reflection of the present as window on the past. There are few better examples of this than England’s turbulent 17th century. Depending on whom you asked, and when, its conflicts were painful, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fathers, Sons, And Bogeymen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t be put off by agitprop, achingly self-conscious blue-collar grit, and accents that may mystify some on this side of the Atlantic: &#8220;This Is England,&#8221; the latest offering from the up-and-coming British director Shane Meadows, is a sometimes exhilarating, sometimes wrenching and, at its best, profoundly moving coming-of-age tale that also manages to find room [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stench &amp; the City</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If there&#8217;s one voice that can be heard above the hubbub described in Emily Cockayne&#8217;s aptly titled new book, it is the voice, splenetic, dyspeptic, and thoroughly fed up, of the grumbler in high dudgeon. For all their traditional stoicism, the English have always known how to complain, and to do so with an acerbity [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=247</link>
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		<title>A Room With a Bloody View</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like hotels: the soothing anonymity, the agreeable sensation of watching people pick up after you, the questionable pleasures of pay-per-view. Needless to say, Stephen King, a writer at his best when conjuring up evil from the everyday, disagrees. In the prelude to his short story, &#8220;1408,&#8221; he explains why hotel rooms are &#8220;naturally creepy&#8221;: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Magical Mystery Tour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At one time or another, most of us have gone through that gray-faced morning routine: the shameful stumble through the shambles of a living room reduced to a wasteland of empty bottles, dirty glasses, and elusive memories, you know how it goes. The night before had been fun, you think, you hope, but what was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=239</link>
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		<title>A Nation Safe for Autocracy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Much as blood and soil may help, it takes more to make a nation than a happy coincidence of genes and real estate. Today&#8217;s nation-states are, whatever they may claim, purpose-built, as artificial as they are organic. Many may now have developed a genuine sense of self, but that identity is often rooted in myth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mean Girl: Getting inside Paris Hilton.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was Friday night in New York City.  I&#8217;d already drunk a couple of beers, so now was a good time for a quick rummage around inside Paris Hilton. I wasn&#8217;t the first to do so, no, not even that evening, but what the hell? She didn&#8217;t mind. Her eyes were closed, her face [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Britain, Year Zero: It’s time to put a stake through the heart of these particular zombies.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the problem. This review was meant to be about 28 Weeks Later, the newly released sequel to the hugely successful 28 Days Later, but, quite frankly, there&#8217;s not a lot to say about it. Judged in its own right, 28 Weeks Later is nicely paced, reasonably exciting, competently made, and well acted (with Robert [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=152</link>
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		<title>England&#8217;s Arcadia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Of all the legends with which humanity deludes itself there are few more persistent, enchanting, and tormenting than that of a lost golden age. The Jews of the Old Testament pined for Eden, and the ancient Greeks dreamed of Arcadia. In the fantasies of many modern Britons, that vanished, magical idyll may have taken place [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pilgrim’s Progress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have not heard of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, you haven’t been paying attention, you haven’t been reading your National Review, and you are probably unaware just how near Europe may be to serious sectarian disorder. You’ve also missed out on the remarkable story of how an obscure refugee from Somalia rose to become a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=149</link>
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		<title>Victory at All Costs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If there is one thing, and one thing only, to be grasped about Britain&#8217;s failure to head off Hitler in time, it&#8217;s that it was almost certainly inevitable. Unfortunately, this is something that readers of &#8220;Troublesome Young Men&#8221; ( Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 448 pages, $27.50), a new book that explains how Winston Churchill rose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ohhh, Henry: The wickedly entertaining Tudors.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No television series boasting an opening sequence that includes a brutal assassination, ecstatic adulterous sex, the gorgeously bared breasts of Ruta Gedmintas, and an angry, thoroughly deserved, shout of &#8220;French bastards&#8221; will ever get too harsh a review from me. With HBO&#8217;s The Sopranos currently being whacked into syndication at the end of this season, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turning Myth Into Cartoon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hades, the ancients warned us, is dreary, morose, and subdued, its only pleasure a certain resigned tranquility. However, once news of Zack Snyder&#8217;s &#8220;300,&#8221; an account of the battle of Thermopylae, reaches the shades of the Spartan dead, even that sad calm will be gone. There will be shouts of rage, muttered, if laconic, threats [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An English Saint Gets The Story He Deserves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Lives of Others,&#8221; the compelling new movie about East Germany currently in contention for an Oscar, is the story of two flawed individuals&#8217; quest for moral redemption, but Michael Apted&#8217;s &#8220;Amazing Grace&#8221; raises the bar far higher. It tells the tale of William Wilberforce, an unquestionably good man who set out to redeem the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Lives in Stasiland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If there is nothing else to East Germany&#8217;s credit (and, frankly, there isn&#8217;t), that grim, gray dictatorship did succeed in provoking two of the finest films to come out of a reunited fatherland in recent years.
The first, Wolfgang Becker&#8217;s sweet, enchanting &#8220;Good Bye Lenin!&#8221; (2003) used one family&#8217;s crisis to examine both the year that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wicked West</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The dust of those doomed towers had barely begun to settle before some Americans began asking themselves who, beyond Al Qaeda, was really responsible. Suspects included the Jews (as usual), the sinister Bush White House, the complacent Clinton White House and, in the view of Jerry Falwell, God. It&#8217;s a tribute to the power of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here’s Lucy: The dirt on Dirt.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the combination of curiosity, camera-phone, the Internet, and, now, YouTube, the culture of celebrity, never that sane in the first place, has seemed to have taken another lurch deeper into the madhouse. In recent weeks those of us who could spare time from the Lohan implosion, the Kramer collapse, or the vital Simpson [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Battered Kingdom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If, in 1932, nearly 15 years after the catastrophe of the &#8220;war to end all wars&#8221; had finally drawn to a close, any Britons were still foolish, complacent, or naïve enough to cling to their island nation&#8217;s traditional sense of inviolability, Stanley Baldwin, the country&#8217;s once-and-future prime minister, wanted to smash that illusion beyond repair. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lifting the Veil? Britain confronts militant Islam.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was, I feel certain, the first time that an article in the Lancashire Evening Telegraph ever triggered a national debate. In the article, written in October, its author, Jack Straw, the leader of the House of Commons and a former foreign secretary, disclosed that he asked any visitor who came to his office wearing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=37</link>
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		<title>Logue’s Odyssey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was waiting to hear what the English poet Christopher Logue had done to the Iliad, and I was worried. The omens, threatening an evening of eat-your-greens earnestness, would have troubled the most phlegmatic of soothsayers. As for the theater in which I found myself, it was more depressing than Ford’s after Booth. A long [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=36</link>
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		<title>Burnt Offering: Wicker Man is menaced by memories of the original.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A remake, yup, another remake: first Miami Vice, now this. To the jeers, hoots, catcalls and snickers of critics across the country, the latest hashed rehash, The Wicker Man, writer-director Neil LaBute’s reworking of a cult British movie from 1973, limped into cinemas over that Hollywood graveyard better known as Labor Day weekend. Clumsy, poorly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=26</link>
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		<title>Defying Death To Save a Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Darren Aronofsky&#8217;s &#8220;Pi&#8221; was, for all its indie buzz and critical approval, muddled, pretentious, and, at roughly 80 minutes in length, roughly 80 minutes too long. His no less pretentious second effort, the morbid &#8220;Requiem for a Dream,&#8221; won even more awards (and, to be fair, a deserved Oscar nomination for Ellen Burstyn) but combined [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=27</link>
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		<title>A Character Sketch Gone Crazy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are some desserts, just a few, that are perfection itself. There are plenty more, glutinous, sticky, cloying, annoying, that tip over into a sickly sweetness and simply disgust. Then, trickiest of all, there are those that teeter uncertainly along the edge, promising delight on one side, threatening nausea on the other. They generally end [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eat, Drink, and Wait for the Revolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a strangely wise conversation in 1971&#8217;s &#8220;Harold and Maude,&#8221; when ancient, youthful Maude explains her radical past to youthful, ancient Harold: &#8220;Big issues. Liberty. Rights. Justice.Kings died, kingdoms fell.I don&#8217;t regret the kingdoms, but I miss the kings.&#8221;
Sofia Coppola, I suspect, feels much the same way. Her bewitching, delirious, pastels-and-candy &#8220;Marie Antoinette&#8221; combines a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=21</link>
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		<title>Reign Storm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Within a few weeks, American moviegoers will be given the chance to wallow in the glitz, glamour, and guillotines of Sofia Coppola&#8217;s &#8220;Marie Antoinette.&#8221; For now they will have to make do with a dowdier, more discreet queen, the one who has been reigning in England for more than half a century now, a monarch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Look but Don&#8217;t Touch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Right at the beginning of this mad, maddening, provocative, and sometimes beautifully written book, &#8220;Nicole Kidman&#8221; (Alfred A. Knopf, 304 pages, $24.95), David Thomson admits that he &#8220;loves&#8221; Nicole Kidman, a confession that is both essential and superfluous. Skeptical as we all should be about long-distance psychoanalysis, Mr. Thomson&#8217;s book is more love letter than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something in the Air: An ode to two Miami knights in designer armor.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Mann&#8217;s somewhat disappointing new movie may be called Miami Vice and the names of some of its characters may trigger recollections of explosions, pastel, linen suits, stubble, wisecracks, gunplay, and music-video brio, but it has little to do with the ground-breaking television series of 20 years ago. And no, the tawdry remake of Phil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movies in Brief</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re taking a horror buff, psychopath, or someone who is too sedated to care, &#8220;The Descent&#8221; is an ideal date movie. The work of Neil Marshall, a British director best known for 2002&#8217;s &#8220;Dog Soldiers,&#8221; &#8220;The Descent&#8221; (a UK hit last year) is a cut, slash, and a gouge above Mr. Marshall&#8217;s earlier effort [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dark Comedy: From islands very far away from Ellis.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes there can be nothing more telling than contrast. The boat sailing in the sunshine of a July 4th weekend was filled with anticipation, exhilaration, tourists, New Yorkers, the yellow t-shirts of the Jones family reunion, and the pointing and squinting of countless digital Kodak moments. Ahead lay Ellis Island, its museum of immigration, and, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=181</link>
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		<title>Mann Overboard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It would be nice to believe that someone, somewhere, someday is going to do a good job translating a much-missed, much-loved television series of my youth onto the big screen, but it&#8217;s proving a long, long wait. &#8220;Bewitched&#8221; failed to enchant, &#8220;Charlie&#8217;s Angels&#8221; was the work of the devil, &#8220;Lost in Space&#8221; was adrift in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blinded by the Light</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Philip K. Dick (1928-82), the reliably legendary, always eccentric, and occasionally brilliant science fiction writer whose &#8220;A Scanner Darkly&#8221; is the basis of Richard Linklater&#8217;s dreadful new movie,is often described as a philosopher, a shaman, and a seer. But that&#8217;s being kind, the man was bonkers, a nutcase, a lunatic, crazier than a street-corner shouter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=24</link>
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		<title>A Superhero To Cheer About</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To explain the ultimate source, and the lasting popularity, of Superman would take Carl Jung, &#8220;The Golden Bough,&#8221; and, quite possibly, Zane Grey. What we do know is that, since the Man of Steel&#8217;s initial appearance in June 1938&#8217;s &#8220;Action Comics,&#8221; he, like all the gods, devils, and myths of mankind&#8217;s collective unconsciousness, has changed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=111</link>
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		<title>Democratic Muslims: Denmark’s Naser Khader and his band</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The restaurant, unpretentious and vaguely chic, and the weather, cold and rainy, were as they should have been in northerly, elegant Copenhagen. The watchful plainclothes policemen were not. These are strange, unsettling times in Denmark: quiet, orderly, peaceful, nothing-happens-here Denmark; hated, reviled, infidel, embassies-in-flames Denmark. I was having lunch with Naser Khader, a Syria-born member [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=142</link>
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		<title>Bottoms Up on the Poseidon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t imagine it&#8217;s much fun being a passenger stuck on a cruise liner that has just flipped upside down, but, according to Wolfgang Petersen, the director of &#8220;Poseidon,&#8221; the sense of confinement makes it even worse. &#8220;This is not something a person can run away from. Trapped within a closed environment where there is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=112</link>
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		<title>Euro Scare?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s a bright, shining, merciful moment, right towards the end of this infuriating, odd, but occasionally perceptive polemic, when its author, Claire Berlinski, says what needs saying about the rancid and rabid anti-Americanism now disgracing Europe’s public discourse: “[It] is a cultist system of faith, rather than a set of rational beliefs, and as such [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=143</link>
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		<title>The Myth But Not The Pathos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whoever said moral decadence, perversion, and cultural decline couldn&#8217;t be fun? There was a time &#8211; a serious, earnest time &#8211; when the women of Hollywood&#8217;s biopics were history&#8217;s greats: They were queens, empresses, Marie Curie. And now? Well, let&#8217;s just say England&#8217;s Bess has been joined by Tennessee&#8217;s Bettie. She&#8217;s a queen, yes, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=113</link>
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		<title>A Film Sabotaged By Itself</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the dangerous and complex struggle against Islamic extremism stretching relentlessly, terrifyingly, and, seemingly, endlessly ahead, there&#8217;s plenty of room for an intelligent movie that shows how fear, disaster, and fury could lead us all into totalitarian temptation. &#8220;V for Vendetta&#8221; is not that movie.
To be sure, as should be expected of a film produced [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=114</link>
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		<title>Mutilating Mr. Bean</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To understand the origins of the mutant mayhem that is Alexandre Aja&#8217;s new version of &#8220;The Hills Have Eyes,&#8221; it helps to begin with a detour into the old, nasty Scottish legend, the legend of Sawney Bean. Like the finest old, nasty Scottish legends, it&#8217;s certainly old, probably bogus, and undoubtedly nasty. Sawney, it&#8217;s said, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=115</link>
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		<title>The Great Danes: A lonely voice for freedom of speech in a Europe of appeasers.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a rough, tough, dismaying week for those Europeans who like to believe that the pen is mightier than the scimitar. Yes, an additional number of publications reprinted those pesky cartoons, one selling out its print run when it did so, but these were brave, temporary gestures, as evanescent as the paper on which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=180</link>
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		<title>Drawing Fire: Opportunity knocked down in the case of the prophetic Danish cartoon.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It says something for the cowardice, duplicity, and wishful thinking of too many of the West&#8217;s politicians (and much of its media) that one of the most striking illustrations of the crisis in its relations with the Islamic world has come from twelve mediocre cartoons.
Self-censorship is tyranny&#8217;s sorry, trembling little helper, and so it&#8217;s to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=179</link>
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		<title>Quiet Hero</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have ever needed reminding of a nation’s capacity for ingratitude, the story of Alan Turing ought to do the trick. And if you have never heard of Alan Turing, that only proves the point. Born in 1912 into the cheese-paring and snobbery of Britain’s colonial administrative class, Turing emerged from a traditionalist family [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=144</link>
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		<title>A Humorous Performance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There were some who thought Michael Winterbottom&#8217;s last movie, &#8220;9 Songs&#8221; (2004) &#8211; a dreary, pointless exercise involving a British glaciologist, an American student, and very explicit (and very real) sex scenes &#8211; should not be made. They were right. There were others who thought his latest effort, &#8220;Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=116</link>
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		<title>Up From The Badlands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Legends that appear only rarely need to make sure that when they do so, it&#8217;s special.Halley&#8217;s comet pulls this off. Barbra Streisand does not. The brilliant but reclusive filmmaker Terrence Malick falls somewhere in between. Since first attracting attention with his debut feature, the spare and unsettling &#8220;Badlands&#8221; (1973), the enigmatic Mr. Malick has developed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=117</link>
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		<title>Wonkette Jumps the Snark</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you need any confirmation that the glum little town that passes for this nation&#8217;s capital is hopelessly obsessed with itself, take a look at &#8220;Dog Days&#8221; (Riverhead Books, 288 pages, $23.95), the Washington frolic and first novel by Ana Marie Cox, the below-the-Beltway blogger better known as Wonkette.
To get the most out of this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=118</link>
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		<title>A Legendary Lover, Brought Down to Size</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Even his name, Giacomo Casanova, with its lovely rhythms and hint of a sigh, sounds like seduction. Try saying it without smiling as you savor the memory or, more precisely, the legend of this trickster Romeo, bogus aristocrat, and genuine original, a man (perhaps character is a more appropriate word) about whom nothing was ever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Never Forget</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the end, perhaps, communism will be remembered not so much for what it left behind as for what it didn&#8217;t. The decades of totalitarian rule annihilated cultures, brutalized civilizations, and crushed the hopes of generations. These were the plague years, a time of slaughter on a scale never seen before: The authoritative &#8220;Black Book [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ladies&#8217; Man: Kong and his women.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As all too many of us have discovered, to be unlucky in love is unlovely, but it’s only the saddest of suitors who ends up in a heap at the bottom of a skyscraper, riddled with bullets and circled by gawpers. Poor, mighty, helpless Kong. When he fell for Ann Darrow all those years ago, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=178</link>
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		<title>A Marvelous Excursion in the Lion&#8217;s Kingdom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If there&#8217;s one thing that Brits of the old school didn&#8217;t appreciate, it was a fuss, and if there&#8217;s one thing we know about the repressed, eccentric, and misogynistic C.S. Lewis, it&#8217;s that he was a Brit of the old school. Nevertheless, it&#8217;s easy to imagine that Lewis, a man who relished vigorous debate, would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Imperfect Enjoyment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Libertine&#8221; is a fierce, intelligent, and compelling account of John Wilmot, the Second Earl of Rochester (1647-80). It is also infuriating, not so much for what it is, as for what it could have been.
Perhaps this is inevitable. In the course of his brief, brilliant, dark shambles of a life, Rochester was a poet, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ghosts in The Machine: Spooky looks at the Met.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8216;m not altogether sure that New York&#8217;s Metropolitan Museum of Art is taking its new, entertaining, and utterly charming exhibition dedicated to photography and the occult, entirely seriously. At the launch party for &#8220;The Perfect Medium&#8221; last month, giggling guests sipped smoke-shrouded potions to woo-woo-woo Theremin tunes, as vast projected images of the séances of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=177</link>
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		<title>Mad, Bad &amp; Too Dangerous To Show</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is something a little peculiar about the BBC&#8217;s advance publicity for &#8220;Byron,&#8221; a half-hidden hint of embarrassment, a discreet cough of discomfort, which suggests it&#8217;s a touch worried that this glossy, entertaining new biopic might, like the unfortunate Lady Byron, be taken the wrong way.
Could it be that &#8220;Byron,&#8221; which airs at 9 p.m. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prime-Time Space Invaders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Be afraid, very afraid. Someone somewhere, probably in a French newspaper, is soon going to make a big deal out of the fact that all three U.S. television networks are debuting series about extraterrestrial invasions of Earth. Much as the enjoyable, and perfectly straightforward, &#8220;Invasion of the Body Snatchers&#8221; has long been reinterpreted as a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=124</link>
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		<title>Incendiary Device: Fiction that is all too real.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To British author Chris Cleave, it must have seemed like a dream come true. The rights to Incendiary, his first book, had been snapped up, an unusually large print-run had been prepared, and an extensive promotional campaign was in the works. In a sign of a best-seller to come, glossy posters advertising Incendiary were already [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=176</link>
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		<title>No Fear or Loathing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was somewhere around Oudezijds Voorburgwal, on the edge of Amsterdam’s Red Light District, when I knew that the drugs would never take hold. My vision was bad, but then it always is; my judgment was no worse than normal; and my usual bleak mood was no better. I had absolutely no interest in tie-dye, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stoned in Stepford: Suburbia on high.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When the New York Times refers to a new show as &#8220;transgressive,&#8221; it&#8217;s a bad, bad omen, and when the theme song of that new show, Showtime&#8217;s new series Weeds, a satire of suburban life, is Malvina Reynolds&#8217;s antique, condescending and trite &#8220;Little Boxes,&#8221; the signs are even worse.
Little boxes on the hillside,Little boxes made [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=175</link>
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		<title>Siren Song of the South</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If, in 2005, a movie about two rednecks, one hottie, and a Dodge Charger emblazoned with the Confederate battle flag turns out to be a hit, it will say a lot for the appeal of nostalgia, the power of marketing, and the prospect of seeing Jessica Simpson in Daisy Dukes. It may even say something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Package of Spare Parts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we all know from the movies, if you&#8217;re going to clone something, clone something worthwhile: So, for example, don&#8217;t clone dangerous dinosaurs, and don&#8217;t clone Adolf Hitler. That&#8217;s good advice. Unfortunately, Michael Bay, the director of &#8220;The Island,&#8221; hasn&#8217;t taken it. His new film may not exactly be a clone, but it certainly appears [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=128</link>
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		<title>Hollywood&#8217;s Hideous Progeny</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this time of Dolly, stem cells, and decoded genomes, it should be no surprise that Hollywood has sent in the clones. &#8220;The Island,&#8221; the new genes-and-screams blockbuster that opens this week, may be trite, slight, and none too bright, but the appearance of a big-budget movie premised, however feebly, on the medical promise and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=129</link>
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		<title>Easy Riders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Look, I’m not Hemingway, Marco Polo, or Lewis or bloody Clark. I don’t kayak, hike, or bike, but I do know I’m not the only traveler in Mongolia to have gone through a moment of despair, regret (what was so wrong with Cancún anyway?), and panic. And why not? We were somewhere remote in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewstuttaford.com/?p=146</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Witchcraft</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tt&#8217;s enough to make you choke on your fava beans. In bookstore new-fiction aisles, this was meant to be the summer of Hannibal Lecter: aesthete, Renaissance scholar, and serial killer. Instead he has had to share the limelight with Harry Potter, the schoolboy hero of a series of British children&#8217;s books. The second of these, [...]]]></description>
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