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...modest rocker, who has lent sparkle to the cause of African poverty relief, brought O'Neill on a 10-day fact-finding journey that started last week in Ghana. The unlikely pair will travel through South Africa, Uganda and Ethiopia. O'Neill played the straight man; Bono did comic relief. O'Neill drilled vendors on their moneymaking to figure out how U.S. aid might help, while Bono strode up to a merchant selling psychedelic tie-dyed textiles and asked, "Have you ever heard of Jerry Garcia?" By the time the trip ends, the two may have a pilot...
DIED. DAVE BERG, 81, longtime Mad magazine artist and creator of "The Lighter Side of..." comic strip; of cancer; in Marina del Rey, Calif. Unlike much of the raffish satire in Mad, Berg's strips took gentle jabs at absurdities of American life, such as naive car owners prone to getting conned by auto mechanics...
...iconoclastic American auteur David Lynch) gave the Palme d'Or to Roman Polanski's The Pianist, a conventional, if sharply drawn, epic about a Jew surviving the Warsaw Ghetto. Second place, the Grand Prix, went to Aki Kaurismaki's The Man Without a Past?one of the deadpan-comic Finn's finest films, but more sweet than startling. And Im's thanks-for-coming prize was the only laurel Asia received. The one competing Chinese film, Jia Zhangke's Unknown Pleasures, got nothing. As for Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and Thailand, they had no films invited to the main festival...
...third girl hit by her father because she chatted with a shepherd, then forced into a loveless marriage with a rich man who will pay her family's rent. The last two women set themselves on fire in protest and despair. Yet the film can also burst into comic atonalities: the rich man who has a security alarm on his refrigerator (it's where he keeps his money), the shepherd on a cell-phone call to a pal in St. Petersburg. Life is sad; life is odd; life goes...
...Afghanistan and Back" is available in regular bookstores and comic stores, and their online counterparts...