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...universal agreement on this point: Paris is for lovers. Judging from 2 Days in Paris, the cliché's lone dissident is Julie Delpy, who wrote, directed, stars in, edited and took the stills for the film. She even warbles its end credit song. In her Paris every cab driver is either a sexist pig or a right-wing nut job, the outdoor market seems to feature more ickily butchered animals than it does flowers and vegetables, and the house Delpy's Marion and her American lover Jack (Adam Goldberg) shack up in belongs to her deranged parents (played...
...Noemie Lenoir as a chanteuse whom Carter has a dalliance with before suspecting that she's a female impersonator ("I went to second base with a man! It's The Crying Games! I'm Brokeback Carter!"); and actor-director Yvan Attal (My Wife Is an Actress) playing a cab driver who switches from anti-Americanism to pro-Hollywoodism once he becomes embroiled in one of the Lee-Carter chase scenes. "Now I know what it is to be an American," he says as he merrily dodges a car full of killers. "Let me shoot someone." (I didn...
...Indian Ocean mission is up for renewal this fall. Nor was this just idle talk: Thanks to the DPJ landslide victory in elections for the Japanese Diet on July 29 that gave it control of the legislature's Upper House for the first time ever, Ozawa is in the driver's seat. "U.S. President Bush started the war in Afghanistan with no concern for the United Nations and the international community," Ozawa told reporters in a press conference...
...intruders are on the lookout for music cassettes, according to locals. Before he entered Mahmand, my bulky taxi driver Ilyas Khan abruptly stopped his car at a gas station to make sure all his cassettes were tucked away in a secret compartment beneath the dashboard. "They search the cars for un-Islamic things," he explains. "They would suddenly appear on the road. They are young angry boys. They also enjoy the support of some locals...
...driver, however, quickly dispelled my doubts. “Where are you from?” He added as an explanation: “You looked more Chinese before you started talking...