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Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at 7:06 PM Posted by bharat
The US presidential rivals have spent a hectic final day of campaigning criss-crossing the country in a last push for votes in key states.
Republican John McCain, trailing in opinion polls, started early in Florida and was to finish in Arizona. He urged his supporters to fight on to victory.
Democrat Barack Obama, at his last campaign rally in Virginia, told voters he had one word for them: "Tomorrow."
On Tuesday, voters will give their verdict and pick the 44th US president.
In a symbolic opening to election day on the US east coast, Mr Obama defeated his rival by 15 votes to six in the hamlet of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire.
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at 11:52 AM Posted by bharat
The limp Quantum Of Solace just wouldn’t stick.
But all that changed after I went undercover to infiltrate a top-secret screening of the new 007 flick.
Daniel Craig’s second outing as the world’s most famous secret agent is something you won’t forget in a hurry.
The actor transformed suave Bond into a gritty killing machine in 2006 hit Casino Royale and here the violence is ramped up to Rambo proportions.
More appropriate titles might have been A View To A Killing Spree or Triggerfinger.
The Sneak would like to give you a figure on the body count . . . but it was impossible to keep score.
The film kicks off with Bond in the car chase of his life as his Aston Martin DB9 is pursued through the narrow cliff-top lanes of the Italian Lakes.
A Bourne Ultimatum-style rooftop chase follows, with the famous Palio Horse Race as a stunning backdrop.
The stunts look dangerous for good reason — they are.
One driver is still recovering from head injuries after crashing into a wall filming the cliff-top chase.
Another had a narrow escape after skidding off a cliff into a lake.
And Craig needed eight stitches in his face after a fight scene and he had the top of a finger sliced off.
It’s a miracle anyone survived filming long enough for Bond to kill them in the movie.
Solace is the first 007 sequel, it picks up directly from where Casino Royale left off.
Bond is out to get revenge for the death of his lover Vesper Lynd (Eva Green) at any cost.
But his path of destruction leads him to the discovery of a new threat to the world, crime syndicate Quantum.
With spies everywhere, even within MI6, they pose an even greater danger than his old arch foes at SPECTRE.
Quantum’s mastermind is billionaire environmentalist Dominic Greene (French actor Mathieu Amalric), who uses a campaign to save swathes of rainforest as a cover for his evil plan.
As Bond battles his new enemies we follow his journey from his promotion to 007 agent (one kill needed) in the last film to First Blood-style rampages.
However, newcomers may be confused by references to old characters and plot lines.
Vesper’s hold on Bond is not fully explained, nor is the return of Mathis (Giancarlo Giannini), Bond’s friend turned foe turned who knows?
Bond’s long list of enemies also gets complicated.
He is so reckless in his blood lust that the CIA agree to kill him when he threatens their dealings with a South American government.
One spymaster quips: “If we refused to do business with villains, we would have no one left.”
Meanwhile, 007’s boss M (Judi Dench) says: “Bond, if you could avoid killing every lead there is, that would be appreciated.”
He dryly replies, “I will do my best” then heads off in designer suits to slay some more.
Things get so bad that M revokes his licence to kill.
Some might say Craig’s portrayal of the spy as an increasingly cold, emotionless character is a brave move. In The Sneak’s opinion, the old-style Bonds of Connery, Moore and Brosnan are too tame for 21st-century tastes.
Here the notches on his gun far outnumber the notches on his bedpost. Only once — sorry, girls — do we see Craig with his top off.
There are two sexy Bond girls in the curvy shapes of Camille (Olga Kurylenko) and MI6 agent Fields (Gemma Arterton).
But the only flash of flesh in the 105-minute movie is a very quick nookie scene with Fields.
The smartass quips and camp gadget-king Q have also been axed. And for the first time the immortal line “The name’s Bond, James Bond” is not used.
Topical environmental references abound, with baddies manipulating fears over climate change.
Though Bond’s carbon footprint would make Greenpeace activists cry. He goes from the UK to Italy to Bolivia to Austria, back to Italy, across to Haiti and finally to Russia.
The predominant colour here, though, isn’t environmental green — it’s blood red.
Which is a surprise since new 007 director Marc Forster is better known for more thoughtful films such as The Kite Runner and Finding Neverland.
Here Forster has followed the standard sequel route of blowing up bigger stuff.
Our hero writes off a fleet of cars, blows up a helicopter and military jetfighter, destroys a cargo plane and several boats and, well . . . you get the idea.
So this film is not as ground-breaking as Casino Royale.
But it will kick the living daylights out of any rival action-hero franchises.
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at 11:48 AM Posted by bharat
James Bond is back, and this time it’s mighty personal. Daniel Craig’s craggy agent picks up exactly where he left off in another bruising thriller that leaves you feeling both drained and exhilarated.
There are hand-to-hand fights that make your eyes water and old-school stunts involving motorbikes, speedboats, jet fighters and expensive cars that give you whiplash just looking at them. Really, nobody does it better than the new 007.
What makes Marc Forster’s film such an intriguing watch is that this is the first of the 22 Bond movies where the plot flows organically from the last instalment, and Quantum of Solace looks a far stronger picture for this rare continuity.
Needless to say the plot is as forbidding as the title. After the death of his girlfriend, Vesper Lynd, at the end of Casino Royale, Bond mixes revenge and duty dangerously as he hunts down the shadowy group that blackmailed Lynd to betray him.
A link to a bank account in Haiti puts Bond on the scent of Mathieu Amalric’s chief creep and ruthless businessman, Dominic Greene. All great Bond adversaries are generously blessed with kinks and quirks and Greene is no different. Amalric has a wonderfully wormy arrogance.
His sidekick, Elvis (Anatole Taubman), sports a monkish fringe, and Tarantino bad looks. But it’s the manner in which Amalric manages to poison all trust in Bond, even from his nearest and dearest, that makes him one of the classic arch-adversaries.
Cold rage threatens to derail Bond’s mission to crack Greene’s dastardly organisation known as Quantum, and I doubt that there’s a better actor at bottling rage than Daniel Craig.
All muscles, he has defined himself as a darker and more bare-knuckle Bond than any of his elegant predecessors.
The deadpan humour is still there. And despite the occasional blasts of visceral and grisly violence, Craig is threatening to become the most popular 007 yet, certainly with the younger generation.
Even the famous Bond babes seem to be getting tougher. Olga Kurylenko’s stunning, hard-as-nails beauty, Camille, has her own private vendetta that she wants to bring to a bloody conclusion, with or without Bond’s help. And Gemma Arterton’s effortlessly foxy Agent Field appeals to the better side of the wounded anti-romantic.
“Do you know how angry I am at myself,” says the naked, raven-haired M16 agent as Bond kisses his way up her spine. But Bond rarely lets a life-threatening difference of opinion get in the way of a decent flirt.
The familiar faces returning from Casino Royale pose a far more subtle, acidic test for Bond who has to tread carefully around treacherous old friends: Jeffrey Wright’s lugubrious CIA agent Felix Leiter; Giancarlo Giannini’s silky string-puller, RenĂ© Mathis; Jesper Christensen’s duplicitous Mr White; and Judi Dench, of course, as his witheringly unimpressed boss, M.
“When you can’t tell your friends from your enemies it’s time to go,” growls Dench.
Of course, Bond is having none of it. There are new necks to break and toys to play with as the action rips across Austria, Italy, and South America.
The global stakes are as precarious as ever. Amalric’s masterplan to destabilise a South American regime, install a dodgy dictator, General Medrano (Joaquin Cosio), and take control of the biggest source of fresh water in the world is fabulously cock-eyed. But that’s one of the main reasons why we can’t get enough of the greatest franchise of them all.
The director, Marc Forster, has absorbed the lucrative lessons discovered in Martin Campbell’s Casino Royale. He has also managed to pace his sequel much better. Royale felt slightly wheel-clamped by one too many longeurs. If anything, the crunching chase sequences in Quantum of Solace are even more magnificently dangerous. And the daredevil leaps and tumbles through glass roofs are just as sensational as the splintering high-speed pyrotechnics.
But it’s the amount of heartache and punishment that Craig’s new Bond absorbs that makes him look so right for our times.
Bond is no longer a work in progress. He is now the cruel, finished article.
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Saturday, November 1, 2008 at 8:52 AM Posted by bharat
In the lead-up to the third Test Matthew Hayden spoke about the need to impose himself on India and his musings on positive intent didn't seem to make sense. With 42 runs in the first two games, he was Australia's most out-of-form batsman and in Mohali had tried to blast his way into the minds of India's bowlers with a method that was too aggressive even for Twenty20.
It didn't matter that Hayden's justification was as hazy to an outsider as the Delhi smog. It made sense to him, and with some tinkering to his outlook Australia have benefitted significantly. Throughout this series they have needed a strong man at the top to show the way and the usual Hayden has re-appeared.
There was none of the hurry of the previous Test - the hare in the initial partnership was Simon Katich, who raced to 64 - and Hayden was in control of his tempo. It is one of his favourite words. Even when he was hit twice by bouncers in Zaheer Khan's opening over, first on the helmet and then on the shoulder, he was not flustered.
"Today I really set myself to bat a long time," he said. "I felt relaxed from ball one, and through last night as well." After being hit he had a look at his helmet and a chat to Katich before refocusing. Hayden is a hard man to break for long.
Zaheer had caused most of Hayden's worries in the opening games, but he negotiated the threat and was able to move through the phases of his three-stage plan for India. (Conquer the new ball, use the pace of it from 15 to 50 overs and then manipulate the softer, spinning ball.) "Every Test innings I have a strategy," he said. "There are so many different variations of conditions.
"Reverse was never a big issue here, so my strategy was built around that." He was desperate to bat for long enough to test himself against India's slow bowlers and for the first time in the series he was able to engage in a lengthy contest.
"With 600 on the board, it required a more traditional type of innings, one that occupied the crease and took advantage of the loose ball," Hayden said. "The conditions were different, the reverse [swinging] ball was not coming into play, so the scoring opportunities were against the spinners."
Only towards the end of the innings did he start to struggle. His footwork became less secure and, at times, his downswing more tentative. An edge fell short of Rahul Dravid at slip and a full-blooded strike to midwicket almost ended up with Anil Kumble - but split the webbing in the captain's left hand instead. A hard, straight drive followed off Virender Sehwag, then Hayden played back to the offspinner and was out lbw, although it looked a touch high.
He has had three doubtful decisions during the series and was slow to leave following Billy Bowden's judgment. He departed 17 short of a century, but had given Australia an important boost in the chase of India's 613 for 7. Without Hayden's composure and Katich's company during the 123-run opening stand, Australia would have been in serious trouble and with only one likely result in the series.
Instead they reached 338 for 4 at stumps and were in their brightest mood since Bangalore. "It was a very good day for Australia," Hayden said. "Four for 300 was a good result. "We're very confident, we've got a good batting line-up to come. There are some challenging conditions to face, especially with spin, but it is one we are going to enjoy."
Hayden's focused lead was followed by Ponting and Michael Hussey as the batsmen used up time as well as chipped off runs. Both are important goals heading into the final two days when the pitch should deteriorate. In the opening Tests the Australians clicked only once as a batting unit, but this time they were led, as requested, by their most experienced man.
Hayden was 37 on Wednesday and the ticking of his career was starting to get louder. He softened the throbbing with a vital innings - just as he knew he would - and helped his team in a highly valuable way.
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