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Well, the big day has finally arrived, a day of glitz and glamour, and this year with more than a little controversy preceding the event, as host television network ABC will institute a five-second tape delay during the Academy Awards telecast, the first time the network has ever done so.
All that controversy serves to do, though, is generate more interest in the broadcast, which averages 1 billion viewers each year.
MADRE Associate Director, Yifat Susskind, writes about the political crisis in Haiti that erupted in mid-February, when an armed movement seeking to overthrow Haiti’s President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, went on a rampage in a dozen Haitian towns.
According to Susskind, Haiti’s opposition represents only 8 percent of the population. With no chance of winning through democratic elections, they rely instead on armed violence to foment a political crisis that will lead to the fall of the government. Whatever the outcome of the crisis in Haiti, Susskind suggests, chances are that one group of thugs will be replaced with another.
In the latter part of his article, Susskind provides insight as to why it’s so hard for us to get a clear picture of what’s happening in Haiti, and makes demands of the U.S. administration and the world community to intervene.
To date, Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ has taken in almost $65 million at the box-office, in only its first three days of release, shattering all records for an independently-made, foreign-language film. Box office update, projected, as of Sunday morning: $118 million total-to-date, in the first 5 days of release, $33 million on Saturday, and a $76 million weekend.
Entertainment Weekly predicted that ‘Passion’ would bring in $40 million over the weekend, but with $23 million on Friday alone … were forced to revise their original estimates when final results were published Sunday.
Holy &^%$*! Meanwhile, in this update, MovieCityNews columnist Leonard Klady weighs in on the weekend box-offices’ record-breaking results.
In London’s Daily Mirror, Christopher Hitchens adds his voice to the continuing controversy surrounding the film.
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