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French cinema has also suffered from a nouveau roman complex. "The typical French film of the '80s and '90s had a bunch of people sitting at lunch and disagreeing with each other," quips Marc Levy, one of France's best-selling novelists. (His Et si c'Etait Vrai... , published in English as If Only It Were True, became the 2005 Hollywood film Just Like Heaven starring Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo.) "An hour and a half later, they are sitting at dinner, and some are agreeing while others are disagreeing." France today can make slick, highly commercial movies...
...headlining a tour with Death Cab For Cutie in 2002, the D-Plan were most at home in the D.C. suburbs. Their musical roots can be found in D.C. as well, particularly in the incredibly rich indie rock scene that flourished there in the early ‘90s. Fugazi, with its playfully militant clatterings, are clearly a big influence. On “Emergency & I,” the D.C. area’s noisy, slightly self-righteous sound is tempered by relentless, self-deprecating irony and graceful, charismatic sonic power. “Spider in the Snow?...
Leading Poland to democracy brought Lech Walesa a Nobel Peace Prize and international acclaim, but he admits to a few regrets. One is that he was so busy throughout the 1980s and '90s that he "did not have the time to follow developments in technology closely." But he is catching...
House: Dunster Concentration: History and Literature Hometown: San Diego, Calif. Ideal Date: Salem Witch Museum...nothing helps a relationship along more than learning about a community in terror. Then take a detour through Marblehead to see where they actually filmed that ’90s tour de force, “Hocus Pocus.” It doesn’t have to be exactly that, but it would definitely be witch-themed. Best way for a girl to get your attention: Be emotionally unavailable or dating somebody else. Works every time. Where to find you on a Saturday night...
...cable company or a digital subscriber line (DSL) from their phone company. The first wave of BPL roll-outs doesn't pose much of a threat to the Comcasts and Verizons of the industry, which boast millions of customers and have been selling high-speed access since the late '90s. Some 22 million U.S. households already subscribe to a broadband service, according to Forrester Research analyst Jed Kolko, making it one of the biggest hits of the digital...