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Allan: Walking along Bourbon Street, I stopped at the Court of Two Sisters and pointed: "John," I said, "around the corner is the hotel where your mother and I first stayed. We could order drinks right through our window." I enjoy telling him about his mother. She was a very special person...
...characters give little evidence of breeding and education; they speak not in epigrams but in clichés. The events of the last Bourbon monarch are not dramatized, merely alluded to. Oh, all right, Schwartzman's Louis XVI says at a meeting of his ministers, raise taxes; send troops to America. The intonations, especially of the American actors, are uninflected, perfunctory. And with the polyglot ensemble of actors speaking English in American, British, French and Italian accents, the film has the feeling of the original sound track of one of those European co-productions before the Babel of voices...
...Bourbon Street didn’t demand the kind of manual labor performed in devastated neighborhoods. Still, supporting Bourbon Street was another way for the students to sustain New Orleans. Tourism drew $5 billion of spending to New Orleans in 2004, and the Big Easy will need many of those visitors if it is to rise again...
...city battling for its own survival, the commercial success of Bourbon Street is a small sign of life...
...city wants us to know they can still have a good time, they’re bouncing back already,” she said. “The fact that Bourbon Street is still vibrant is a testament to the resilience of the city, even though it was affected less...