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“(It’s) partly because public opinion has really shifted on the war, so there might be a marketing aspect to that,” says Ron Eyerman, a professor of sociology at Yale, about the sudden flood of Iraq-themed or related films. “But of course it takes a long time to make a film, so you’re not going to watch public opinion polls and then start to make a film. The timing of that just doesn’t work.” Films that have already played include Paul Haggis’ “In The Valley of Elah,” about a retired veteran (Tommy Lee Jones) trying to find out why his son was brutally murdered after shipping back from Iraq, and “The Kingdom,” a look at homegrown terrorism in Saudi Arabia dressed in the clothes of an action thriller. More recently, Reese Witherspoon and Meryl Streep top-lined “Rendition,” about a woman whose Arab-American husband is seized and tortured by the U.S. government. The documentary “No End in Sight,” a critical analysis of the Bush administration’s handling of Iraq, surfaced on DVD last month after a limited theatrical run. Still to come is director and star Robert Redford’s “Lions for Lambs” (Nov. 9), which tells three stories about war, patriotism, and the media build-up to the invasion; Brian de Palma’s reportedly brutal “Redacted” (Nov. 16), which uses video-cam footage for an ultra-realistic take on the true story of U.S. soldiers who raped...

Guerra and his band, 440, won the trophy for record of the year and tropical song for the playful, upbeat “La Llave De Mi Corazon.” The album of the same name also garnered the award for best merengue album. “I want to dedicate this award to the Dominican Republic,” said Guerra of his homeland upon being named the Latin Recording Academy’s person of the year, recognizing career and personal achievements. Guerra talked about Tropical Storm Noel, which recently thrashed the Caribbean nation and killed several dozen. Among the artists Guerra bested in his record of the year win were Martin and other superstars: Beyonce and Shakira, and Miguel Bose and Paulina Rubio. Guerra, credited with popularizing the bachata dance rhythms outside the Dominican Republic, was also up for song of the year and album of the year. Those who worked on Guerra’s album also picked up the award for best engineered album. The superstar performed a medley of “Lola” and “La Bomba,” while Blue Man Group added their signature frenetic dance visuals. Later, Reggaton star Daddy Yankee performed “Ella Me Levanto,” flanked by the scantily clad showgirls of “Folies Bergere,” each wearing colorful feather headpieces. It was one of the show’s several mash-ups of nominees and Las Vegas Strip staples. Martin took home the award for long form music video for “MTV Unplugged” and was up for album of...

According to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public life, in its most recent poll, there were 1.6 billion Muslims in the world in 2010, and 2.18 billion Christians. It should be noted, though, there have been probably fewer than 50,000 Muslims demonstrating around the world against the United States since a 14 minute trailer for the film, the “Innocence of Muslims,” was uploaded onto YouTube on July 1. According to a timeline published on Sept. 21 by the Arab network al-Jazeera, the turmoil started when a Coptic Christian activist in the U.S. sent a link to Gamel Girgis, an Egyptian reporter who writes about Coptic Christians for al-Youm al-Sabaa, a Cairo newspaper. On Sept. 8, Khaled Abdullah, a prominent fundamentalist television host famous for his finger-wagging fire-brand statements on al-Nas, a station favored by fundamentalist Salafis, showed the clip dubbed into Arabic. Three days later, on Sept. 11, about 75 terrorists, who according to some reports were members of Ansar al-Shari’ah (Followers of Islamic law), a fundamentalist Libyan militia, surrounded and breached the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. There has been much debate about whether it was a spontaneous outburst, a crime of opportunity, but the U.S. has now acknowledged was a terrorist attack. U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed. The flame was lit. Since then, thousands of mostly young men and boys have demonstrated...

Julie Taymor was doing “backyard theatre” at the age of 7, was a member of the Boston Children’s Theatre Company by the age of 11, and traveled in Sri Lanka as a teenager. She says her parents gave her the freedom to be herself, and to follow her interests no matter how far away those interests took her. Taymor also told Moriarty that she was so emotionally close to her parents that she never really felt far from home. From her travels — especially the four years she spent as a young woman in Indonesia — Taymor got insights and skills that informed all of her later work, including “The Lion King.” This show has been widely praised as an innovative stage work unlike anything that came before. What she proposed to Disney as her best idea, while admitting others would also work, was the most original and therefore the riskiest. Taymor created what she calls “the double event” which enables the audience to see the characters as animal and human at the same time. Taymor 사설 먹튀 believed in this concept and Disney believed in her. So Taymor’s best artistic vision is what “Lion King” audiences see. This past spring “The Lion King” opened in Johannesburg. Taymor says for her and those she worked with to create the show, that was “the most thrilling, moving experience of our...