We end the week in 1920’s prohibition-era Chicago with The Untouchables. This flick features several stellar performances, but two stand about the rest - Sean Connery, who won an Oscar for his supporting role as one of the Untouchables, Jimmy Malone

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The term ‘poetic drama’ became popular during the middle of the twentieth century. It was T.S. Eliot who revived this drama/term as a reaction to the drama of ideas popularized by Galsworthy and G. B. Shaw under the influence of Ibsen.  Poetic Drama, according to T. S. Eliot, has far reaching effects as it

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The basic plot concerns the death and martyrdom of Becket. The story of his life seems to hold great dramatic and tragic potentialities. The horrible deed which culminated is life involves persons who, though not directly related by blood ties, were suddenly bound by old ties of friendship and humour. Thus, the central theme of

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An excellent book review of "The Skull Mantra", award-winning novel by Eliot Pattison about a Chinese detective in Tibet. This detective starts out in prison, and is a prisoner throughout the story, a complex murder mystery involving religious artifacts, suppressed monks and monasteries, foreign investors, and Chinese/Tibeta

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The fiction blog "Nearly nothing but novels" issues Part 2 of the discussion with Chinese author, poet and translator Qiu Xiaolong. There is an original photograph of the books displayed at Barnes & Nobel for the book-signing event, the centerpiece being Qiu's latest, Red Mandarin Dress, published by St. Martin's.

The c

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As everybody has heard by now, New York Democrat governor and Hillary Clinton super delegate, Eliot Spitzer was implicated in a prostitution ring. To quote Hillary, “shame on you” Eliot Spitzer.

As a former New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer dedicated his life to bringing criminals to justice, but evidently he thought

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Eliot Spitzer officially announcing his resignation today at a press conference in Manhattan. Spitzer was implicated with the Emperor's Club Escort Service by a federal investigation. Less than 2 days after this was revealed, Spitzer stepped down. News parody style reporting of Spitzer's resignation. What are the ramificatio

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It just keeps getting worse for Eliot Spitzer. After being forced to resign his post as governor earlier today, now it's being revealed that "Kristen," the alleged prostitute who Spitzer reportedly spent thousands of dollars on, is a mere three years older than his eldest daughter.

The woman, identified as Ashley Alexan

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The short stampede of the bulls was crushed by the re-surging bears. Bulls ran and ran but once the bear woke up by the noise and roared the bulls ran for their life (Ben should have not fired at the bears and wounded them...now they seek revenge).

Spitzer resigned, fell hard and Wall Street cheered while the ever-lasting lo

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Fiery redhead Julianne Moore - actress, mom and New Yorker - is pissed!

Moore voiced her opinion of former New York Governor Elliot Spitzer's prostitution scandal.

"A f*cking embarrassment" is how she termed his involvement. He resigned on Wednesday.

"I'm really pissed," she told PEOPLE. "I honestly don't car

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Charlie Sheen has two very young daughters and I just wonder how they're going to handle the news about their daddy having sex with hookers - albeit years ago - still, it's going to skeeve them out. They're obviously not old enough yet to read the news or go online, but someday, they will be. Ewww. Now there are reports b

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A former aide to ex New Jersey governor James McGreevy is claiming that he had three-way sexual trysts with the politician and his wife, Dina Matos McGreevey.

The aide, Theodore Pedersen, said the encounters took place before McGreevey took office and that the couple even had a nickname for the weekly romps, "Friday Night

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It's been all over the news and I'm really sick of hearing about Eliot Spitzer and the hooker, but since everyone is writing and blogging about the scandal, here it goes.

I basically put together a small roundup of the latest headlines, like Dupre (the hooker) cashing in on the affair BIG TIME, plus the hilarious Spitzer

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A twenty three year old woman, Cecil Suwal is accused in being involved in running the Emperors Club VIP escorting service. The now famous prostitution agency is known for their high class girls that charge upwards of $5500 per hour for their company.

Her, along with a number of other people involved are all facing charges i

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The details for the Emperors Club VIP keep coming to the surface as more and more clients as well as managers and prostitutes are brought to justice. The newest development to the story is that the former madam of the club, Cecil Suwal has pleaded guilty to the accusations. As the story unfolds more and more interesting informa

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