Word: edens
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...MARTIN SCORSESE showed 20 tantalizing minutes of clips from his long-delayed epic Gangs of New York in the company of stars LEONARDO DI CAPRIO and CAMERON DIAZ. Rumors of friction between Scorsese and Miramax boss Harvey Weinstein had scorched the Riviera, but over dinner at the posh Eden Roc Restaurant, the two chatted genially, not once shying rolls at each other...
...soul. The dreamy pride that Tamil suicide-bomb squad commanders take in their mined and cratered hometowns is at once odd and oddly comforting. It speaks of murderers who can move on, who can see beyond conflict and chaos to a future of peace and picnics. A tranquil Eden is never going to be the first thing that comes to mind when I think of Kashmir. And with an average death toll of 13 people a day, it'll be difficult to find room to mention the scenery in my dispatches. But in these fearsome days of violence, terror...
...began in controversy and ended in closure - or, as the French say, cloture. Arguments at the Cannes Film Festival are usually about which film deserved to win or whether the blindingly bright days in this Riviera Eden are just a smidge too cool. This time the world impinged on the art. The ruckus began just before the festival, when the American Jewish Congress called for a near-boycott on grounds of French anti-Semitism. That charge was answered on opening day when Woody Allen, France's favorite U.S. auteur, showed up to say he loved the French and commended them...
...thought it was good that he was here,” said Ashley M. Eden...
...general. Whereas baby-boomer touchstones like Brooklyn Bridge and The Big Chill recalled the '50s as more innocent and the '60s as more meaningful than the present, their successors tend to subscribe to the bad-yearbook-photo school of history. Instead of seeing the past as a lost Eden, they see history as an eternal march upward from dorkiness. The more memorable moments in the '80s pilot--already beaten to death in Fox's ads--include characters dancing to Pat Benatar's Love Is a Battlefield video and talking into cell phones the size of cinder blocks...