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...only more intense. It really is just confirmation of what I thought as a young person: an existential approach to human life, that's my approach. Existentialism isn't as in vogue in Paris as it used to be, but I still go to Café de Flore and sit there and think of Sartre. That still informs my philosophy of life. What I was feeling when I was making The Fly has only been confirmed by life as it goes on. Which is another reason why I'm able to take it up in another form, I suppose...
...Crown as part of a joint venture with Australia's Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd., founded by the late billionaire Kerry Packer. (Kerry's son James is now co-chairman of Melco Crown.) Citing a conflict of interest, Stanley later left the operation to run his original casino company, Sociedade de Jogos de Macau. Lawrence says he never wanted to work for his dad. "I thought I wouldn't learn anything because people would either handle me with kid's gloves or not let me learn," he says...
...Michelle De Kretser's first novel, The Rose Grower, was set in revolutionary France; her second, The Hamilton Case, which won a Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Encore Award, in colonial Ceylon. With her latest, The Lost Dog, she visits contemporary Australia and mid-20th century India. The span of globetrotting mirrors de Kretser's own life. Born in Sri Lanka, she migrated to Australia as a teenager. De Kretser took her first degree in French at Melbourne University, then moved to Paris for her M.A. before returning to Australia where she worked, perhaps aptly, as a travel editor...
...these eight days compress nearly a century of recollected histories of several lives in India. They include Tom's memories of growing up in India and the family's immigration to Australia, and the stories of Tom's father, the Englishman Arthur Loxley, and Arthur's Eurasian wife, Iris de Souza. Iris, now an arthritic and incontinent 82-year-old, living on the untender mercies of her sister-in-law, Audrey, is becoming an intractable problem for her son. Meanwhile, Tom's deepening attraction for Nelly can only find an outlet in a desultory work he begins about...
...agents. U.S. prosecutors say the men, at the behest of "high-level" Venezuelan government officials, cajoled and even threatened Antonini to keep mum about the real purpose of all that cash: an illegal contribution from Venezuela to the presidential campaign of then Argentine Senator and First Lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, a Chavez ally. One of the men, Moises Maionica, pleaded guilty in January; one is at large and another - Carlos Kauffman, a close Duran pal - pleaded guilty in March, leaving Duran all but alone to face trial in Miami that began this week...