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...There seems to be something in Paris air or water that encourages compendium filmmaking - multiple characters and multiple stories. Paris, Je T'Aime may be the grandest such work currently on view, but it is not the only one. You may recall the recent Avenue Montaigne, in which a young waitress finds herself mixed up with an insecure actress, a great pianist withdrawing from performing and an art collector selling his collection. It has a chipper spirit, and, in the end, things work out all right for all concerned, yet it also carries with it an air of regret...
...shoot to an international gang of directors and a bunch of good actors - some well-known, some less so - who have contributed 18 short films, some no more than inconsequential vignettes, other rather nicely worked out short stories, to this largely festive enterprise. All of them are handsomely mounted - Air France should work out a promotional deal with the producers - and they are variable in quality. But even when one of the pieces stutters, stammers or just lies deathly still, we are consoled by our knowledge that it will not trifle with us for very long. And by the fact...
PROTECTS AGAINST High concentrations of toxic fumes. Often used by firefighters, these units use a tank to supply air...
Ousted on-air personality DON IMUS is suing his erstwhile employer CBS, saying the company contractually required him to be "irreverent" and even "controversial." (Contract fulfilled!) Media blogsite JOSSIP poses this koan: "When a disgraced former radio host gets fired ... and there's still $40 million left on his contract, will anyone write him a check?" SCORE...
...predecessor. "We take it for granted, don't we?" muses 12-year-old Perdita Keene, a free spirit made mute by the violent death of her English anthropologist father near Broome, Western Australia, in World War II. "The inspiration and expiration that presses the vocal folds, the movement of air from the trachea, the vibration of the voice box, the issuing-unthinking, automatic-of air released into the mouth and fashioned by the tongue and the lips, emerging then as socially efficient speech...