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...gift to their tyrannical leaders. I would like to see Bob Geldof and Bono tackle the issue of reducing the rich world's agricultural subsidies. They are truly unfair. Sergio Elia Abbiategrasso, Italy Power Failure I was pleased to read "The Man Who Wasn't There" by political commentator Alain Duhamel [Nov. 28]. It's rewarding to see that a French intellectual realizes that France is in bad shape and that he has an explanation for the failure of French President Jacques Chirac to do what he was elected for. As Duhamel wrote, "Chirac has failed to tackle France...
...Three of New York's four winners of the coveted three-star status turned out to be French: Alain Ducasse, Eric Ripert and Jean-Georges Vongerichten. (American Thomas Keller, who trained in France, also won three stars for Per Se.). In the two-star category, there's Frenchman Daniel Boulud and French-trained David Bouley. The only non-Frenchie with a pair of stars: Masayishi Takayama, whose Japanese restaurant Masa may also win the award for priciest menu in America ($350, prix fixe, not including drinks...
...Georgia Harbison, Ratu Kamlani, Sue Raffety, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Susanne Washburn, Linda Young REPORTERS: Elizabeth L. Bland, Hannah Bloch, Barbara Burke, Tresa Chambers, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Kevin Fedarko, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Daniel S. Levy, Michael Quinn, Jeffery C. Rubin, Andrea Sachs, Alain L. Sanders, David Seideman, David E. Thigpen COPY DESK: Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Barbara Dudley Davis, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Jeannine Laverty...
...answers let's flash back, like some labyrinthine Alain Resnais epic, to the glory days of foreign-language films--the '50s and '60s. Back then Hollywood was Doris Day and Jerry Lewis on the low side, Tennessee Williams and biblical spectacles on high. Meanwhile, artists in other countries were leading film to a robust maturity: Ingmar Bergman in Sweden, Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard in France, Akira Kurosawa in Japan, Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni in Italy, Luis Bunuel in Spain. As each director found a constituency, U.S. distributors would pick up his earlier films, as well as other...
Thompson Room, Barker Center. Oct. 25-27, from 4:00 until 5:30 p.m. Melvin Van Peebles, the maverick filmmaker best known as the writer, director and star of “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” will be delivering this semester’s Alain LeRoy Locke Lectures. The LeRoy lecture series is co-sponsored by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, the Department of African and African American Studies, and Basic Civitas Books (a division of the Perseus Books Group). They are held in honor of the Harlem Renaissance...