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...mission, set for launch on Monday of this week, was scheduled to be the first off the blocks, but it is the U.S. missions, scheduled for lift-off on Sunday, June 8, and Wednesday, June 25, that are likely to generate the most buzz--and not just because NASA has had 45 years to master the media spin cycle. What will make these expeditions stand out is that each will set loose on the Martian surface a remote-controlled rover even smarter and more photogenic than the miniature robot that captured the world's attention during the Pathfinder mission...
...will come to a bouncing landing swaddled in air bags. The esa mission, which launched last week, was the first off the blocks, but it is the U.S. missions, scheduled for lift-off on Sunday, June 8, and Wednesday, June 25, that are likely to generate the most buzz - and not just because NASA has had 45 years to master the media spin cycle. What will make these expeditions stand out is that each will set loose on the Martian surface a remote-controlled rover even smarter and more photogenic than the miniature robot that captured the world's attention...
...which Pinault holds a 42% stake. PPR has also sold more than j3 billion in assets this year. People close to Pinault insist that the timing of these transactions is purely coincidental, and that he's not experiencing any financial difficulty. Nonetheless, his cash-raising flurry is the buzz of Paris, where the 66-year-old is a larger-than-life figure who is feared, admired and criticized in equal measure. He is one of the 10 richest people in France, whose wealth at its peak in 2000 was estimated by Forbes at $7.8 billion. (Forbes today thinks...
...Azur's Croisette. Inside the Grand Palace, directors had their minds on apocalypse: in the Palme d'Or winner, Gus Van Sant's Elephant, an ordinary day in an Oregon high school erupts into massacre, Columbine-style. In Lars von Trier's Dogville, which had all the early buzz but left without any prizes, a beautiful stranger (Nicole Kidman) takes a load of abuse in a Colorado town, then, like an Old Testament God in an I'm-sick-of-Sodom mood, has everyone gunned down. Brazilian director Hector Babenco ended his Carandiru with the slaughter of innocents...
...animated feature, about an old woman who battles the French Mafia to retrieve her kidnapped godson, possessed what other Cannes entries lacked: a vivid visual imagination, a generous wit, an understanding of the human impulse not just to survive but to save others. Dogville may have had the big buzz at Cannes, but Belleville was the great news. Von Trier disappointed his fans by getting shut out at award time. But another Danish auteur did have reason to be there and be pleased: Christoffer Boe, director of Reconstruction, which won the Camera d'Or for best first feature...