Ryuichi Sakamoto was at the forefront of electronica long before the term was minted. In 1978 the Japanese musician founded the Yellow Magic Orchestra and soon branched out into film scores (his most famous was for the David Bowie movie Merry Christmas

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When a trained-to-kill Israeli commando switches professions and becomes a Manhattan hairdresser, a fish-out-of-water comedy is sure to follow. And when this Israeli hairdresser falls in love with the Palestinian woman who owns the salon, you can bet yo

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Forty years after the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., a black man stands a chance of becoming President. Perhaps America has finally become the Promised Land King foretold in one of his much quoted sermons—a land he somehow knew he woul