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...millions of Americans, the golden years are looking more like dross. In July more than 1 of every 3 people age 55 and older was working or seeking work, the highest proportion since 1974, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The graying of the work force is due in part to the double blow that retirement portfolios have suffered over the past few years, says outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Stock-market losses and low returns on fixed-income investments are forcing retirement-age people to either continue working or head back to the trenches...
...meets. In François Ozon's Swimming Pool, she antagonizes and arouses older novelist Charlotte Rampling by sunbathing in the nude and bringing louts home to stay over. Neither film is a masterpiece, but both address the envy of old souls contemplating young flesh. Amid the cinematic dross, a jewel emerged: Sylvain Chomet's Les Triplettes de Belleville (Belleville Rendez-Vous). This animated feature, about an old woman who battles the French Mafia to retrieve her kidnapped godson, possessed what other Cannes entries lacked: a vivid visual imagination, a generous wit, an understanding of the human impulse not just...
...through all that dross, Shu Qi showed that she could act?if only now and then, when it was easy, when the talent just poured from her. There was her first lead role, in Gorgeous, and a celebrated part in Mabel Cheung's City of Glass. Though she says she tries hard only "about 50% of the time," even that can surpass her most strenuous co-stars' efforts. Leslie Cheung says he was practically acted off screen by her womanwithal in the clever porn-parody Viva Erotica, her sixth Hong Kong film. Hong Kong heartthrob Nicholas Tse says she "intimidated...
...every nation (197 in '96), the Atlanta Journal-Constitution summed up the first day of competition with this banner headline: NO GOLD FOR US. The message was that there was something ignoble about the two silvers and the bronze that U.S. athletes won that day, and by extension the dross won by athletes from other nations. Aleksandra Ivosev of Yugoslavia certainly appreciated the bronze medal she won for the women's 10-m air rifle. Ivosev has a training problem, which would be laughably ironic if it weren't sadly so: "Because of war," she said, "we couldn't find...
...Jackie phenomenon and eventually came up with an interesting question: Why wait around for authors to turn themselves into celebrities when it's possible to sign up people who are already famous or semi-so? Whether such folk could actually write novels mattered hardly at all. Turning unmitigated dross into dross that will sell is how editors and, sotto voce, ghostwriters earn their keep...