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...genially subversive Franco-Belgian Ma Vie en Rose, the town where Ludo and his family live is cheerily color-coordinated (each garage door is painted a different pastel), but the emotions that the boy's cross-dressing provokes are darker. Everyone goes instantly agog. Wives scold; husbands threaten. Schoolboys turn into bullies, ready to take the natural law into their own hands. The film, directed by Alain Berliner from an original script by Chris vander Stappen, has the scheme of a socially fretful TV movie. Yet at heart, Ma Vie en Rose is a delightful comedy, both in its buoyant...
...consumers of these new procedures, just as they are of current treatments. However, many existing assisted-reproduction therapies were developed overseas. The world's first in-vitro baby, Louise Brown, was born in England. The first baby born from a frozen embryo is Australian. And it was in a Belgian lab that researchers found a way to inject sperm directly into an egg cell, enabling men with insufficient, slow-moving or feeble sperm to become fathers--a powerful new technique known as intracytoplasmic sperm injection, or ICSI...
...into the U.S. Experts estimate that there are scores, perhaps hundreds, of paintings, prints and lithographs stolen by the Nazis that are now in America's private collections and top museums. New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art owns two allegedly looted paintings, one claimed by the Belgian government, the other by an anonymous German owner. Last month the Boston Globe published a lengthy investigation that raised questions about paintings by Degas, Picasso, Cezanne and other masters that now hang in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and in the Fogg Museum of Harvard University. The Philadelphia Museum...
Tabloid headlines in their native Belgium dubbed them THE DIABOLICAL LOVERS. In America they might have been called the Honeymoon Killers. Aurore Martin and Peter Uwe Schmitt allegedly found lonely singles, married them and then murdered them in order to collect the insurance money. Belgian authorities had been hunting the couple for months. Last week FBI agents arrested them in Miami, where they had spent their loot on an oceanfront condo and the Florida high life...
...Pontormo, Rubens, Mantegna, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Turner--and illuminatingly good ones by less famous figures, such as Franz Xavier Winterhalter's coolly sumptuous portrait of a 19th century princess on the terrace of her villa in the Crimea, or a small, haunting study of a young girl by the Belgian Symbolist painter Fernand Khnopff. It is already a deeply serious and discriminating collection and may turn into a great...