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---- Movie Review----

X-Men
Following in the overproduced steps of the Batman and Superman franchises, comes X-Men, an adaptation of the popular Stan Lee and Jack Kirby comic-book characters and stories, transferred to the big screen with a reported $75 million budget and 470 visual-effects shots.

---- Art----

Decoration, the Main Art of Islamic Civilization
In some parts of the Islamic world like Turkey, India and Persia, old books used to be decorated by miniatures of human or animal figures or by scenes of daily life, war or other specifics of social or cultural activities, which reveal the individual or collective imagination in a certain age in the past. Some of these miniatures are exquisite pieces of art and may be studied for the light they throw on the unique features of Islamic art.

---- Theatre----

Commedia Dell'Arte
Commedia Dell'Arte emerged in Tuscany around 1550, although its origins are difficult to trace. It had its roots in the masked comedies of ancient Rome, both in the works of dramatists like Plautus, and in the folk tradition of the character acting troupes (such as the performers of the fabulae atellanae). The form combined mime, improvised and scripted dialogue (often coarse), with tumbling and acrobatics.

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