Word: boulevards
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Like so many actors before her - Robert Downey Jr., River Phoenix, Christian Slater, Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe - Lohan is as self-destructive as she is gifted. She crashed her Mercedes on Sunset Boulevard on Memorial Day weekend, got arrested for a DUI, was photographed slumped in a car in a stupor, and checked into her second rehab stint in four months. The once lovable (and bankable) child star looked as if she was finally trading the vivacity that first won over audiences in 1998's The Parent Trap for vapidity...
...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...
...couple hundred journalists milled this morning at Carlton Beach, an outdoor restaurant with a pier that juts into the Mediterranean. They looked across the Croisette, the wide oceanside strip that is the Cannes Film Festival's own chic boulevard, and up to the top of the seven-story Carlton Hotel, a white building with wedding-cake ornamentation. There, in a bulbous bee costume, stood Jerry Seinfeld, being attached to a guy wire by several burly technicians. He was about to "fly" about a hundred yards onto the pier, risking life and reputation to promote his animated film Bee Movie. "Anything...
...supermodel mistress (Elena Simonsen) is really in love with Fran&ecedil;ois (Gad Elmaleh) a not too smart parking boy at a posh restaurant. It's totally preposterous, but everyone is really rather reasonable, patient and lovable in an idiotic situation. Tales like this used to be known as boulevard comedies and, you have to say, Paris has the boulevards to sustain them. Especially when it's springtime and the city sparkles in a fresh light and, sacre bleu, there is always a parking spot available in front of the building the characters need to enter. That, friends...
...back across the university, and up to the shaded dirt trails of Forest Park. Long or short, trail or street, the routes are there, and often many people are too. Dili: In 2003, starting from a waterfront motel in East Timor's capital, I ran north along the seaside boulevard until pavement gave way to dirt and downtown gave way to field, with the aroma of grilled fish being prepared at seaside restaurants wafting past. Magical...