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...campaigns in Cuba and Bolivia, was denied the Palme d'Or many expected, but Benicio del Toro, the film's indefatigable star, was named Best Actor. The Best Actress award went to Sandra Corveloni, who played the pregnant single mother trying to keep her poor family together in the Brazilian Linha de Passe, directed by Walter Salles and Daniela Thompson. At the ceremony, Thompson revealed that Corveloni was herself pregnant and had just lost the child. She said the award would be balm to the actress...
...overly ideological decisions have held Brazil back," said Assuero Doca Veronez, a cattle rancher in Silva's home state of Acre and the Brazilian Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock Farming's environmental spokesman. "Her aim was to stop the agricultural frontier advancing. The country could have been growing faster if she had been more flexible...
...Then there are those films that promise it all - a top director, a tony cast, a distinguished source novel, a provocative theme - and instantly pratfall. One of these is the festival's opening night selection, Blindness, from the Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Constant Gardener...
Before Mamet disassembled me, he arranged for me to get an hour of training at Street Sports in Santa Monica, Calif., where for seven years he has been studying Brazilian jujitsu, a type of martial art that involves very little punching and kicking but a lot of rolling around on the ground and touching in ways that made me, if this is possible, uncomfortable while getting beaten up. Five students--all of whom act in his new film about ultimate fighting, Redbelt--took turns pummeling me under the instruction of Mamet's trainer, Renato Magno, who told me later...
...wrong to attribute a significant part of the increase in Amazon deforestation to biofuels, as Mr. Grunwald does. First, suggestions that Brazil is a major culprit in global warming are not supported by scientific facts or reliable statistics. Second, the growth rate of Brazilian emissions has been on the decline primarily because of decreasing rates of Amazon rain-forest deforestation, which is the main source of carbon emissions in Brazil, and increasing use of ethanol fuel. Furthermore, from 1970 to 2005 the use of ethanol in our energy mix has averted the emission of 644 million tons...