Saturday, July 11, 1998
There was so much more to do
Tina, it was clear, was not the one running the place, and Tina, therefore, was in the position to leave with dignity. What was her achievement? To my mind, a considerable one, and I've been disappointed by the press she's got, citing her more flamboyant miscalculations. In fact, most were self-correcting. Tina, like most creative people, has an ability to enter something like an idea motor mode, in which all kin
The cleansing campaign
The images are desperately familiar. So is the West's fudge and fiddle. Old women in black winding their way through mountainous terrain. Dead men. Smoke billowing out of a single house lost in the wilderness. Kosovo is burning. Western leaders are furious. They begin their usual waltz through each others' capitals. The sound bites are right. NATO is working out plans.
The US version
Hollywood loves a foreign star, from Hong Kong's Jackie Chan to France's Jean Reno, but Japanese fans reckonGodzilla, who returns to their screens this weekend, has lost a lot in the translation.Godzilla opens on a record 385 screens across the country on Saturday, but the computer-generated creature's New York rampage is already being dismissed in cult circles as no match for the rubberised stop-motion monster that terrorised Tokyo for more than 40 years.
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