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...Cannes Film Festival means to be a celebration of international cinema--a reminder that movies are made in other places besides Hollywood. Yet American-star wattage usually puts the rest of the world in the dark. At last week's festival, jury member Sharon Stone was photographed a record 1,633,458 times (unofficial count); Jack Nicholson, promoting his film About Schmidt, searched for a TV where he could watch his beloved Lakers game. Best of all, MARTIN SCORSESE showed 20 tantalizing minutes of clips from his long-delayed epic Gangs of New York in the company of stars LEONARDO...
...director David Lynch) gave its top award, the Palme d'Or, to Roman Polanski's Holocaust saga The Pianist, an epic adaptation of the 1946 memoir by Jewish musician and Warsaw Ghetto survivor Wladyslaw Szpilman. Cannes this year was good for the Jews, and not bad for world cinema. It is always dangerous to find political significance in movies. Films are not news bulletins; they are dreams, acts of love, art and commerce. Still, the coupling of a Palestinian picture and an Israeli one (Amos Gitai's Kedma), programmed by the festival as "a gesture of peace," couldn't help...
...northwestern province of Gansu. DIED. NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE, 71, French pop artist and creator of the Nanas sculptures; in San Diego. Saint Phalle's other important works include Hon, a 28-m-long, 6-m-high figure of a woman that houses music rooms, an aquarium and a cinema-accessed through the installation's vagina. DIED. SAM SNEAD, 89, golfing legend whose career spanned five decades; in Hot Springs, Virginia. With seven major championships and 81 PGA Tour victories, Snead was considered one of the sport's greatest players. He had won every major golf title except...
...seemingly besotted with Bollywood. In May Selfridges department store had a $1.69 million tribute to the genre, complete with visiting stars, movie-set replicas and Bollywood-inspired clothing. The British Film Institute meanwhile is running Imagine Asia, at eight months' duration England's largest Bollywood film festival ever. "Hindi cinema is incredibly popular here at the moment," says Cary Sawhney, the festival's director. "Since 1998 Hindi films have been regularly breaking into the British Top 10 - helped by the increasing frequency of English subtitles. Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham [Sometimes Happy, Sometimes Sad] got to No. 3 on the British...
Ashutosh Gowariker, director of Lagaan (for which Rahman composed the music), agrees. "Western eyes are now looking to India as an emerging power, and that includes its cinema and music," he tells TIME. Music is central to Bollywood, with composers often given equal billing alongside directors and soundtracks released four months before the movie. But even without such exposure in London, Gowariker expects Rahman to succeed: "He is among the top five Indian composers of all time, and his range stretches across all forms, from folk to Western classical music. It touches everyone...