Movie casting is in eye of the beholder

Movie casting is in eye of the beholder
When I heard last week that Sacha Baron Cohen of “Borat” fame had been signed to play late rocker Freddie Mercury in a forthcoming biopic, I thought, “Now there’s an inspired bit of casting that we can all agree on.”
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Emma Donoghue’s ‘Room’ transforms the lurid into art
Emma Donoghue, in her unnerving, urgent seventh novel, has hit upon an ingenious storytelling device: with a five-year-old as our buffer, we gradually decode the parameters of Room, and the shape of its inhabitants’ captivity.
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Satyajit Das: Chinese Contradictions
By Satyajit Das, a risk consultant and author of Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives – Revised Edition (2010, FT-Prentice Hall). Peter Hessler (2010) “Country Driving: Three Journeys Across A Changing China”; Text Publishing Richard McGregor (2010) “The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers”; […]
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