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...modernize the coop's equipment. So the Americans were stunned when the announcement of the project was greeted by storms of protest from an unlikely coalition of hunters, ecologists and communists. "It was as if they were arriving in an underdeveloped country and starting from scratch," fumes Manuel Diaz, the communist elected mayor of Aniane in March on an anti-Mondavi, anti-globalization ticket...
...year only because he missed his wife and daughters. His son Hector, 18, is still in Oregon, making $7 an hour at a plant nursery. Guevara's return hasn't been perfect. He says he is lucky to make $6 a week in his butcher shop. His wife Matilde Diaz, 40, chokes back tears over her son's absence and says, "Mexico no longer gives us anything...
...Aside from the Hong Kong affair, though, this Cannes was relatively star-starved. Everyone wasn't there. Jack Nicholson (The Pledge), Cameron Diaz (Shrek) and Marlon Brando (Apocalypse Now Redux) all had major movies on display, but none of them showed. This was a festival of films, not photo ops, and even on screen the magic was in short supply...
...animators' art, because it has an amusing (and morally useful) tale to tell. Basically, we're talking that old standby, a quest story. The ogre (Mike Myers characterizes him vocally as a dour Scotsman) does a deal with the vertically challenged Farquaad (John Lithgow) to rescue Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz) from a faraway castle. If he succeeds, the princeling will marry the girl and remove the crowd of enchanted nuisances from Shrek's property...
There's still plenty of room for Myers' comic gloom. His Shrek is, indeed, the perfect foil for the Donkey's irrepressibility. Diaz, too, has an excellent character to play. You've gotta see what she does to Robin Hood and his Merry Men when they get fresh with her. She is also not exactly what she seems...