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...Jean Delannoy, 100, directed the forbidden-love hit La symphonie pastorale, from the André Gide novel, in 1946; the following decade, his precise dramas became the butt of young turks like Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard who formed France's New Wave. Back when the international audience got much of its fun, sex and sentiment from Italian movies, Dino Risi, 91, provided robust entertainment in many genres. Among his 80-some features were 17 starring Vittorio Gassman, most prominently the cynical social fable Il Sorpasso / The Easy Life and the blind-officer-on-a-toot drama Profuma di Donna...
...problem lies not with the harvest, which is thriving, but with the economy, which is not. For more than a decade, Spanish olive growers have relied on migrants willing to beat branches and collect fallen fruit; last year they made up roughly 15% of the seasonal workforce, according to Andrés Bódalo, a representative of the Andalusian Workers' Syndicate. Yet thanks to a looming recession that has pushed unemployment to more than 11%, those migrants are finding the jobs have gone to newly out-of-work locals, who are only too happy to collect...
...conditions of poor people all over the world are improved, but this improvement will mean more consumption, more problems with food and resources and more garbage. What do we think we're up to? The planet of the apes is no longer science fiction - we are living on it. André Brossé, VOSSELAAR, BELGIUM...
...living conditions must be improved. Yet if we do this and Earth's population continues to rise, resources will be consumed and waste generated at an ever faster rate. What are we thinking? The planet of the apes is no longer science fiction. We are living on it. André Brossé, Vosselaar, Belgium...
When the Archbishop of Paris, Cardinal André Vingt-Trois, met with reporters on the eve of Pope Benedict XVI's arrival in France on Friday, he ended up presiding over a heady mélange of funeral and lively TV talk show...