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Al-Ahram Weekly 22 - 28 April 1999 Issue No. 426 
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Al-Ahram Weekly 22 - 28 April 1999 Issue No. 426
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SWING OF MANHATTAN: Born Duke Edward Kennedy in 1899 in Washington, Duke Ellington became one of the greatest musical influences of the century: history, race, Time and Newsweek all rolled into a song and an orchestral sound so beautiful no one in this century has improved on it. His inventions spread through pop, swing and jazz to the classics of the Viennese school: Schoenberg, Albanberg and Webern. He was a friend of Kurt Weill who openly admitted his debt to the Duke. He stayed sane, kept out of the trash cans in spite of the awful fame of being part of the American Dream, and ended immortal. With everyone's blessings the Mood God will be 100 on 29 April.
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ANTZ (Eric Darnell & Tim Johnson, 1998). The worker ant Z-4195 (Woody Allen) turns from a common drone into an unlikely hero: he unwittingly places a bug in General Mandible's (Gene Hackman) plan to literally liquidate the ant colony and remake it in his own image. Long live democracy, down with Hitler! Z, who longed to become a distinct, individual ant, among the millions that constitute the colony, leads a revolution and beats down homogeneity. He even accidentally creates a new dance which all the conformist ants instantly imitate, while he clumsily tries, and fails, to dance with the ant of his dreams. Mind blowing animation; hilariously funny.
Starring voices (in alphabetical order): Woody Allen, Dan Aykroyd, Anne Bancroft, Jane Curtin, Danny Glover, Gene Hackman, Jennifer Lopez, John Mahoney, Paul Mazursky, Grant Shaud, Sylvester Stallone, Sharon Stone & Christopher Walken
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A PERFECT MURDER (Andrew Davis, 1998). In this ambitious remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder (1953) -- directed in a 3D format and based on Frederick Knott's stage play by the same title -- betrayed husband Stephen Taylor (Michael Douglas) plans to murder his wife Emily (Gwyneth Paltrow). This version modifies the original by going Diabolique plot-wise and by casting the romancer-discloser-so-basically-attractive Douglas in the role of the husband. Paltrow's role as Emily -- Grace Kelly had played the wife in the Hitchcock version -- recalls her performance in Fincher's Infernal Seven where she was also cast as a victim wife. While Douglas received his Oscar for strolling down Wall Street, Paltrow received hers loving Shakespeare this year, which should make new actor Viggo Mortensen rather nervous considering that Douglas' performance in A Perfect Murder is esteemed the finest since Wall Street.
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