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...provided for six decade: a first peek at some of the world's best films. Last year's festival saw the debut of the Coen brothers' Oscar-winning No Country for Old Men, plus such 10-best titles as The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Persepolis the Israeli charmer The Band's Visit and the out-of-nowhere Romanian sensation 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days. The Cannes imprimatur helped critics alert moviegoers to these fine films, and a large or little bandwagon got rolling. Mission accomplished...
Reed was the victim of mistaken identity. The killer's real target had been her sister, Alison Ponting, a producer at the BBC World Service. Alison was married to a chubby Armenian charmer, Gacic Ter-Oganisyan, whom she had met while studying Russian at university. But the marriage triggered a chain of improbable events which eight years later unleashed the whirlwind of death, imperialism, civil war, oil, gangsterism and nationalist struggle that is otherwise known as the North Caucasus upon sleepy Woking...
...recalls, at one point, the effect that a speedball (a mixture of cocaine and heroin) has on him, describing it as “a high that other people are afraid of.”Interviews with colleagues and former loves make him out to be a self-absorbed charmer, but there was no shortage of women willing to indulge Baker’s flaws to win his affection. His then-girlfriend guardedly recounts stories of abandonment and physical abuse, without even a hint that Baker would ever change or that she would leave him.But this type of blind devotion...
...Good-time Charlie Wilson makes deals in hot tubs surrounded by naked prostitutes. The age, pulchritude and dress code of the all-girl staff in his Washington office show that he believes more in cleavage than in cloture. Hanks' portrayal of this genial, grasping, philandering Texas charmer owes a lot to Larry Hagman's J.R. Ewing from Dallas - a man who took so much pleasure in screwing people, and did it with so much con-artistry, that they often enjoyed it too. That's the secret of a successful politician: If you manipulate Them (the voters, the lobbyists, your colleagues...
...Paul Keating's - that Australia would become a banana republic. But overall, the reception's good. "Bob's one of my heroes," says Newhouse. "And as you can see, he's still got it." It's hard to see Labor winning Wentworth. But if that happens, a silver-haired charmer will feel he's played his part...