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...years ago this December, but his influence is still palpable in Italian cinema. Recently Marcello Mastroianni has starred in two adaptations, of the novel The Late Mattia Pascal and the play Henry IV. Both movies offer aspects of the basic Pirandello theme, in which the universe is a carrousel whirling off its moral axis, and man's ego is a mask that conceals a gaping void. In their entrancing new film, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani have revived a less familiar Pirandello: the compulsive storyteller, spinning tales about his native Sicily, its stern landscape and elemental passions. Kaos dramatizes four...
...when she and her siblings stopped at an isolated pumice-stone island near Malta. They climbed to the top of a white dune, then bounded gaily down toward an impossibly blue Mediterranean, the pumice ash rising like a breeze to embrace them in the seductive promise of youth. Our carrousel may be spinning toward disaster, the Tavianis say, but to the music of art and memory we can ride sweetly forever. --By Richard Corliss
...atmosphere easily rivaled the show-biz frenzy of Oscar night, with hundreds of photographers and TV crews swarming into the Carrousel du Louvre, where Nicole Kidman sat with her favorite director, Baz Luhrmann. They had come to promote the Chanel No. 5 commercial they had made together, which will debut in theaters and on TV before Christmas. As a tribute to the Chanel-Hollywood hookup, the runway was covered in--big surprise--a red carpet. At either end, banks of paparazzi strained to snap a precious photo of the star, seated in the front row in a black couture jacket...
...that would lend the post more political edge, independence and democratic legitimacy. In turn, Germany acquiesced to France's campaign for a new post of E.U. President, who would chair the European Council meetings for two and a half years (with a possible second term), in place of the carrousel of national leaders who now swing into and out of the post every six months. A new post of European Foreign Minister would also be created, with a foot in both Commission and Council, and his or her own "European diplomatic service." That figure would combine the overlapping tasks...
...These days the Paris shows are the most fun. All kinds of show biz, social comment -- like cellular phones being used by models as they saunter down the runway. As of this year, the Paris shows take place in a new part of the Louvre called the Carrousel. A few renegade designers march people off to an outlying arrondissement to see the clothes in an abandoned warehouse or train station. Once inside, you often have to wait an hour or more for the show to start. In New York, 20 to 30 minutes is the rule. But no fashion show...