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Irish Hollywood spectacular boxing clever in recruiting home-grown…
Irish Independent – Sep 10, 2006
Even Cork’s new €200m airport terminal is scheduled to be used as a film location. Michael Madsen got the lead role despite strong competition from other US stars including Matt Dillon – and the actor is delighted with how his Irish accent is progressing. Richard Chamberlain immediately signed up; while Vinnie Jones, who splits his time between Kenmare, Co Kerry and LA, is delighted to be working so close to home. Mark hopes that Strength and Honour can match the success of The Wind That Shakes The Barley, and vowed that its world premier will be staged in Cork. It is also hoped to have the film ready for a starring role in the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.
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The Age – Sep 10, 2006
Beyond the easy image of the beard, the veil and rarely worn burqa,there are many varying practices, orthodoxies and accommodations. Two young Muslim women, for example, are presently vying for thetitles of Miss World and Miss Teen Australia. Glenn McIntosh, 41, is as home grown as they come, aginger-haired convert who confesses that he is slack about prayingfive times a day. He is a regular at the City Circle, a discussiongroup for Muslims, which meets monthly at a mosque in WestMelbourne. After a recent meeting, he spoke frankly about his family’sexperience as Muslims. McIntosh says he and his wife, Sonia, came to Islam slowlyduring the late 1990s. They were introduced by friends, and wereattracted by the friendliness of mosque communities.
Carmen’s renaissance
The Age – Sep 10, 2006
It is just as poor, rough,vivid and desperate as Andalucia must have been in Bizet’s day. Carmen, who works in a cigarette factory, has a chorus of gangstermates singing in Xhosa, with its clicks and glottal stops. Themusic is Bizet’s, but is blended with township percussion and dancethat sometimes counter the original and sometimes blend with it. Nothing about this should work, but the result is riveting. Mark Dornford-May, the director, left a successful careerdirecting theatre in London for South Africa four years ago,determined to set up a theatre company that would use the wealth ofmusical and theatrical talent he had seen there. “I’m sort of South African now, or I feel it,” he says. “It wasjust a mistake I was born in the wrong place… The fact is, he says, that this film of Bizet’s opera is thefirst to come out of the new South Africa, which has been addressedto the mass of the population. “So far, I feel the films that have been made have been aboutwhite guilt and white angst – a group of liberals working out theirguilt by describing the history of South Africa rather than itsbeing explored in a genuinely interesting way. At first sight, it is bizarre that South Africa’s firsthome-grown popular success should be a film based on a Frenchopera. But, in South Africa, Dornford-May points out, opera is notseen as an elite art form. It is just another kind of music, whichis the very breath of life. “Don’t forget the choir network is massive and these choirs singopera. These things are not treated as separate: a traditionalSouth African tune is as great as a chorus from Verdi and viceversa.
Anthony Wade remembers
Jamaica Gleaner – Sep 10, 2006
"After the passing of my grandfather in 1925, this woman took charge, inspiring and guiding her children. "
The results were outstanding. Her offspring included Charles, a headmaster of Cavalla Hill School who was credited with an MBE for turning out the first crop of home-grown island administrators. Another was Dick, Anthony's father who made his mark as an inspector of schools. There were other gifted uncles who became local Methodist preachers. Montserrat, Wade says, is a place of precious memories. In his new book, he tells the story of scaling gigantic volcanic rock formations.
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Seattle Times – Sep 10, 2006
embassies in Africa in 1998. This country had its own glimpse of home-grown Islamic terror in June when authorities arrested seven suspects in Miami for a plot to attack the Sears Tower in Chicago and FBI offices in Miami. That case was not as advanced as the plane-bombing plot and had no apparent link to al-Qaida or foreign groups, but still was an ominous sign in the struggle against terrorism. George Latanzio is an editor at The Star-Ledger of Newark, N. He can be contacted at.
Think tank: Al-Qaida severely weakened by ‘War on Terror’
Jerusalem Post – Sep 10, 2006
“This is likely to affect and challenge policy-makers for some time to come,” he said. Azzam said upon the release of the briefing paper Al-Qaida Five Years On: The Threat and Challenges.