Trying the Khmer Rouge
In between lounging in the backyard and assaulting Robert Fisk’s brick-like The Great War For Civilisation, I’ve been immersing myself in readings about the Khmer Rouge Tribunal — scheduled, after nearly two decades of diplomatic evasion and acrimonious negotiations, to begin operation sometime in 2008. But after again reading about the tribunal’s tortuous gestation, I’m...
Tom Cruise: The 'Goebbels of Scientology'?
Poor Tom Cruise — all he wants to do is make movies. Yet his latest film has many Germans in a frenzy, with some now branding him as the Scientologist equivalent of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. Valkyrie, due for release in October, tells the story of the ill-fated July 1944 plot to assassinate Adolf...
REVIEW: ‘Khmers Stand Up!’ by Justin Corfield
Prior to my going to intern at the Phnom Penh Post in March, I’ve assembled a long list of Cambodia-related reading material, covering politics, history, language, anthropology and travel writing. The first cab off the rank was Khmers Stand Up! by Justin Corfield, a history of the right-wing Khmer Republic that lasted from the deposition...
REVIEW: Girl Talk
Brown Alley, January 11, 2008 Girl Talk — aka DJ Greg Gillis — has built a reputation out of recasting snippets of well-known songs in an aspic of glitchy beats and digital noise. It’s a shtick that might not hold up live were it not for the Pittsburgh native’s manic stage performances, on display last...
