Oh lovely, Rupert Murdoch is coming to Delaware

[LynneSin]

We like our state and don't want him in it spoiling it

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22 December 2005
Movie Reviews: 'The White Countess'


The final Merchant-Ivory production, The White Countess, is receiving a limited release this weekend and had producer Ismail Merchant lived a few months longer -- he died last May -- he might have been pleased by the reviews of the film on which he spent the remains of his days. Glenn Whipp in the Los Angeles Daily News is one of several critics who remarks that the movie "marks a fitting conclusion to the celebrated partnership of James Ivory and the late Ismail Merchant." He says that many of the distinctive Merchant-Ivory elements are combined here, including "bang-for-the-buck production design," a "literate presentation" and extraordinary performances by the stars, Natasha Richardson, and Ralph Fiennes. In the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert writes that he saw his first Merchant-Ivory movie, Shakespeare Wallah, in 1965. "So for 40 years, I have been watching them living up to their own standards when the world didn't care and, lately, even when it did. Sometimes they have made great films, sometimes flawed ones, even bad ones, but never shabby or unworthy ones. Here is one that is good to better, poignant, patient, moving." Claudia Puig, in her USA Today review, concludes: "Through the past three decades, Merchant and Ivory have been virtually synonymous with sumptuous, beautifully crafted period dramas. With Merchant's death in May, this film is a fitting tribute to the end of an era." Michael Wilmington in the Chicago Tribune comments that, with this film, the Merchant-Ivory partnership "ends on a very high note, with a deeply evocative film, beautifully done." Jan Stuart in Newsday remarks that the film "offers up heaps of everything we have come to depend on Merchant and Ivory for: hyper-articulate dialogue, authentic period detail, impassioned performances from the crème de la crème of English-speaking actors." Not all critics are impressed, however. "With its tentative pace, fussy, pieced-together structure and stuffy emotional climate, The White Countess never develops any narrative stamina," writes Stephen Holden in the New York Times.
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First Eisner, Now Murdoch To Visit Delaware


Raising the probability of another media titan having to take the witness stand in Delaware, a Delaware Chancery Court judge on Wednesday ruled that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp must stand trial on charges by Australian stockholders that it broke a promise that a "poison-pill" scheme would not be extended without the company's seeking stockholder approval. Murdoch could find himself testifying in the same courthouse where former Disney CEO Michael Eisner last year defended himself against shareholder complaints. Michael O'Sullivan, head of the Australian Council of Super Investors, one of the groups suing News Corp, said Wednesday that the breach-of-contract case was not about the merits of Murdoch's poison-pill defense against the possibility of John Malone gaining control of the company. "It's about a promise that was not upheld," O'Sullivan told the Sydney Morning Herald. O'Sullivan and other Australian investors maintain that when Murdoch sought their approval to move the company's headquarters to the U.S., he promised them that we would not extend the poison-pill scheme without seeking their approva -- but that he did so nevertheless last August. "Murdoch treats as if it's his company," O'Sullivan said in the newspaper interview, "but it's not a private company. It's 70 percent owned by other shareholders." News Corp has consistently denied that Murdoch's previous statements constituted a promise or a contract.

[SoCalDem]

1. The plus side.. he's visitng as a defendant in court

:)

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. Another plus

Delaware's pretty small, so it should be relatively easy for y'all to trap him and give him the sound thrashing he so richly deserves.