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Riveting 'Revolution' shines on big screen  The title of Kim
Bartley and Donnacha O'Briain's documentary about the April 2002
coup in Caracas, Venezuela, has so many different meanings that
they bounce around the theater like light from a prism.  "The
Revolution Will Not Be Televised" -- the line comes from an old
Gil Scott-Heron song -- details the scary scenario in which a
cabal of Venezuelan businessmen, oil interests, local media
barons, and possibly the CIA engineered the removal of the
country's democratically elected president, Hugo Chavez. The
easiest part was shutting down the one state-sponsored TV feed;
in its absence, the privately owned channels, all anti-Chavez,
could insist that everything was normal.  But the coup was
videotaped -- as was the remarkable and unexpected popular
uprising that restored Chavez to power less than 48 hours later
-- by Bartley and O'Briain as they wandered the streets and
huddled in the presidential palace wi