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...Bernardo ("The Tractor") Provenzano (a boss from Corleone...
...lost in Hollywood's long shadow. The film's Danish director, Von Trier, built his reputation on labyrinthine parables (Element of Crime, Zentropa) with much camera dazzle; but to aim for the big movie market, Von Trier set Breaking the Waves in Scotland and made it in English. Meanwhile, Bernardo Bertolucci returned to Italy for his first film at home in 15 years, yet his Stealing Beauty was also an English-language film--and a largely ludicrous one, filled with an international idle-class group of poseurs and gossips, all fawning over 19-year-old Liv Tyler. Her face, with...
More obviously explicit, "Last Tango in Paris" by now owes much of its fame to its sex scenes--still somewhat jarring today--despite a notably wrenching performance by Marlon Brando as a dejected, desperate husband. The movie was immediately banned in the home country of the Italian director, Bernardo Bertolucci, for being "obscene, indecent, and catering to the lowest instincts of libido." But because of Brando's talent and, of course, the sex, the film was a world-wide hit, despite one near-rape scene and the subjecting of the female interest (Maria Schneider) to various sexual whims...
...Toronto jury convicted Paul Bernardo, the handsome "boy next door" accused of the brutal rapes and murders of two teenage girls in Canada, of all nine counts against him in just seven hours. The trial, with its sordid videotape evidence of Bernardo and his wife Karla Homolka sexually abusing the teenagers, often transfixed Canadians with twists and turns akin to those in the O.J. Simpson case. "At the high points of the trial, such as when Bernardo testified, people were lining up at four in the morning to get one of the one hundred courtroom seats," reports TIME's Gavin...
Fuhrman by Ken Lubas-Pool Holbrooke by Ivan Multinovic/Reuters Punjab by Kamal Kishore/Reuters France by Jack Dabaghian/Reuters Bernardo by Greig Reekie/Toronto Sun Liberia by Jean Marc Bouju/AP World War II by AP/File Turner by Ted Thai for TIME