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...would figure that the barbecue that Senator Tim Johnson threw a few weeks ago in Madison, S.D., would be a typical small-town affair. Two hundred citizens showed up for food and a chance to ask questions of their Senator. But so did a BBC camera crew, a Japanese newspaper reporter, a TV team from Italy and the Washington bureau chief of the Economist...
...Cannes. Her second short, Kill the Day, a nightmarish junkie tale, won the Clermont-Ferrand Prix du Jury, and 1997's Gasman, about the tangled relationships of a family on its way to a Christmas party, reclaimed the Cannes prize. It also won her an invitation from BBC Scotland to write and direct Ratcatcher. Her work to date may be art-house, but Ramsay wants to be in the cineplex, too. "I also want to make films people want to go and see," she says. "I don't see myself as being élitist in any respect." Ramsay...
Pakenham, 69, a self-taught photographer, has already parlayed his arboreal love affair into a best-selling collection of portraits of 60 remarkable British and Irish trees. On the strength of that book's unexpected success (and the bbc series that grew from it), he has spent the past four years roaming five continents, 30 lbs. of camera equipment in tow, in search of the world's most fascinating trees. The result of his quest, a stunning volume titled Remarkable Trees of the World (W.W. Norton; 192 pages), arrives in bookstores this week...
...warm? Are we loving? If not, can we fake it with a few houseplants? Our homes are where our personalities and imaginations are nakedly on display, and we continually suspect they are lacking. And judging by the number of hideous paneled rec rooms being redone on TLC, Discovery, HGTV, BBC America, DIY Network and beyond, we just may be right...
...Fayajnu, who goes by Seyi. Large crowds are nothing new to this New Jersey native. After winning the 1996 National Geography Bee and a $25,000 college scholarship presented in the form of an oversized check, Fayanju waded through a sea of publicity. In addition to interviews with the BBC and the Voice of America, Fayanju appeared on “Good Morning America,” CNN and CBS News. “It was a whirlwind year,” he remembers...