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...documentary may be seen by few, but if its producer is Leonardo DiCaprio, journalists will turn up in droves seeking an audience. And what chance does a premiere by minimalist Taiwan master Hou Hsiao-hsien have when, that same morning, U.S. comedian Jerry Seinfeld is promoting his cartoon feature Bee Movie by dressing in a bee costume and flying, on guy wires, from the top of the Carlton Cannes Hotel across the town's oceanside boulevard to land on a pier jutting into the Mediterranean? "They tell me Scorsese did the same thing last year for The Departed," he quipped...
...plays Barry, a bee who's restless to get out of his home base in New Hive City and see the world. (Like Antz, the first DreamWorks CGI feature, Bee Movie is set in Central Park.) His first outside flight lands him in the home of a friendly florist (voiced by Renée Zellweger) and, in the anything-goes premise, they find they can talk to each other. While Barry's parents fret that she's not right for him ("Is she bee-ish?"), he uncovers a plot to enslave his species and, like a good Jewish bee, acts...
...When Katzenberg asked for questions, the international press was ready. "To bee or not to bee - this is the question," one journalist posed. "Will there be a C and a D movie," another asked, "and maybe an X?" Seinfeld winced at each joke. "The bee pun reflex," he observed with a kind of courtesy, "is something we've struggled with for three years." Warning to the press: Never try to make a comedian laugh...
...mere prelude to the flight-of-the-bumble-bee escapade at Carlton Beach a half-hour later. This could have been Katzenberg's idea; as head of Disney animation in its palmy "Renaissance" years (1988-94), he had hosted ever more elaborate industry previews of his films, culminating in a Las Vegas stunt for The Lion King with a live lion onstage. The beast was so fond of Jeffrey, it nearly behaved toward him as another Vegas lion later did to Siegfried's Roy; but Jeffrey escaped basically unmauled. Now, under his auspices, a zillionaire comic would perform a kind...
...hour later, before a screening of another worthy Asian film, I told my critic colleagues I'd skipped the Hou Hsiao-hsien film to watch Seinfeld fly over Cannes in a bee suit. One of my friends shook her head pityingly. "The things they make you cover," she said...