Movie: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Sacha Baron Cohen (of Borat fame) Director: Tim Burton Music: Stephen Sondheim Release Date: Dec. 21, 2007 in the U.S. ********** By God, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a bloody gorgeous movie. Very bloody […]
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s gutsy daughter Amrit Singh, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union in New York City, is needling the Bush administration again on the torture issue. This time, Amrit Singh, a staff attorney with the ACLU’s Immigrants Rights Project, attacked the Bush administration the other day on the CIA tape […]
After eight months of review for possible antitrust violations, the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday approved Google’s $3.1 billion acquisition of Internet ad server DoubleClick. But the European Commission has yet to sign off on the deal. In a 4-1 vote to close its investigation of the transaction, the FTC wrote in its majority statement: After carefully […]
Just read an interesting news item in DNA – Indians are forking out as much as Rs 1 crore ($250,000) to Shah Rukh Khan and other Bollywood celebrities to sing/dance at their functions and shake hands with their guests. Here’s an excerpt from the DNA piece: Shah Rukh Khan may not agree to do a […]
After being traumatized recently by the hideously awful Tamil film Billa, we were desperately in need of some relief. Fortunately, we stumbled upon a fine Argentine film Cautiva (2003) from our long neglected Netflix trove. Set in Argentina of the early 1990s after the dirty deeds of the last military dictatorship were exposed, this Spanish film is the […]
Time magazine has named Russian President Vladimir Putin its Person of the Year for 2007. Good choice, indeed. Like Professor Samuel Huntington, we believe without order there can be no civil society. After the chaos of the Gorbachev and Yeltsin eras, Putin has ushered in order, stability and prosperity (helped by high oil prices) for […]