Word: bruno
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...DIED. Bruno Kirby, 57, piquant, high-pitched actor who infused his many supporting roles--often as best friend, often to Billy Crystal--with intensity and humor over his 35-year career; of leukemia; in Los Angeles. Kirby's most notable performances included a turn as a humorless lieutenant in Good Morning, Vietnam and as a journalist pal to Crystal's Harry in When Harry Met Sally. Kirby's character marries--above, at center--then eggs on his comrade to follow him into domestic bliss...
...independently financed films--the firm stunned investors and Hollywood alike by announcing that Avi Arad, the man behind the Spider-Man and X-Men film franchises, would leave to start his own production company. Not six weeks later, two more key execs departed unexpectedly--Tim Rothwell and Bruno Maglione, heads of Marvel's licensing and international divisions, respectively, perhaps Marvel's most important priorities...
...overwhelmed for a very different reason when she was urgently called to Lascaux in August 2001 by France's Research Laboratory for Historical Monuments (LRMH). "It was as if it had snowed in the cave. Everything was covered in white," she says. Two of the cave's caretakers, Bruno Desplat and Sandrine van Solinge, had raised the alarm when they discovered that white filaments, first spotted in isolated parts of the cave months before, had spread over much of the interior in a matter of days. Desplat, who lives next to Lascaux and has devoted more than 15 years...
...scenes were hot stuff, but the movie's critical response was tepid. Three war movies also failed to astound: Ken Loach's The Wind That Shakes the Barley, a predictable rendering of the 1920 Irish battle of Catholic peasants against the Black and Tans; Bruno Dumont's Flandres, a horrifying but uninvolving study of Belgian farmers committing atrocities in an African war; and Rachid Bouchareb's Indigènes (Days of Glory), which dramatized the valor of Algerians who fought for the French in World War II, then found their pensions denied them after the Algerian conflict - an inspiring...
...crisis is likely to shine the spotlight on both their records."You can't say the PCC want to benefit one candidate or another, but there 's no doubt that they are smart and well-informed and that they know authorities are more vulnerable in an election year," said Bruno Paes Manso, an expert on the PCC and author of the book The X Man: A Look into the Soul of the Sao Paulo Assassin. "President Lula will be criticized for not investing more in public security, but Alckmin will be the one that is hurt most because this hasn...