Posts Tagged ‘powerful’
Mission Accomplished: Bush Makes Bozo Of Himself Again
Jeff PrinceBig D resident George W. Bush has kept a relatively low profile during retirement after mucking things up for eight years. He’s back. Quick question: If you were writing a historical novel that included an ex-president as...
Today Libya, Tomorrow Syria?
There’s a bigger picture to consider.Gwynne Dyer
Last Friday saw the first nationwide protests against the Baath regime in Syria. If these protests develop into a full-scale revolt, the regime’s response may dwarf that of Col. Muammar Qaddafi in Libya.
Dollhouse
Big TicketWritten in 1983 by the Romanian playwright Gilles Ségal, The Puppetmaster of Lodz is less a piece of Holocaust kitsch than a spin on the old story of a puppeteer who starts to lose the distinction between fantasy and reality. ...
Blood, Rock
Hard times have slowed veteran Fort Worth blues-rocker John Nitzinger — but only a little.CAROLINE COLLIER
Fort Worth guitar hero John Nitzinger’s life and music can be summed up pretty succinctly by the lyrics to “The Beast,” off his 2007 album Kiss of the Mudman: “For the thousandth time, I got a second cha...
Stray Shot
Spanning the globe, Babel contains at least three movies. One’s really good.Kristian Lin
Supposedly director Alejandro González Iñárritu and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga have parted ways over the issue of authorial credit for the three films they’ve collaborated on.