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...Chen shared his award in 1993 with New Zealander Jane Campion for her film The Piano - the only woman to take the top prize in Cannes' 62-year history. Ironically, Campion's 1989 debut, Sweetie, had been unceremoniously heckled at the festival. That said, being booed at Cannes is a rite of passage: last year's festival saw new movies by Charlie Kaufman, Lucrecia Martel and Wim Wenders receiving catcalls. That hasn't stopped both Campion and Lars Von Trier - whose latest work, Antichrist, received the biggest critical drubbing of this year's festival - from entering their latest films...
...Joining Tarantino are Jane Campion, with the Keats bio-pic Bright Star, Ken Loach with the soccer drama Looking for Eric, and Lars Von Trier with his horror film Antichrist. That makes for three winners of the Palme d'Or in the 2009 competition. Another returning champ: U.S. film-critic superstar Roger Ebert, of the Chicago Sun Times and many books and TV shows. Roger missed the last two festivals battling throat cancer but will be back this year, his critical voice as strong as ever...
...Charles Campion, deputy campaign chairman for the 1984 Walter Mondale campaign; Mary Anne Marsh, a commentator for Fox News; Charles Manning, senior advisor for Mitt Romney’s 2008 presidential campaign; and Alex Castellanos, media consultant to seven U.S. presidential campaigns and current IOP fellow, spoke about the successes and failures of the two current presidential campaigns, as well...
...Campion cautioned Democrats who may be giddy with their candidate’s current prospects for winning...
...Remember one thing about politics: it’s cyclical,” Campion said. “There are great high points and low points, but no one ever...