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...Cannes, on that 60-ft.-wide canvas, it had the kind of luminosity, confidence and throbbing pulse that no Franco-Polish minimalist masterpiece could match. This, we were reminded, is why audiences in almost every foreign country prefer Hollywood movies to their own: because ours are bigger, slicker - movie-er...
...wants to see a movie shot almost entirely in a wretched motel room, in which a downtrodden waitress (Ashley Judd, in a stunning performance) first fends off her sadistic former husband, newly paroled from jail, then takes up with an apparently agreeable drifter (Michael Shannon) who is well, er, a little more loony than he at first appears...
...mystery: Why did Serena slide into near oblivion? In the 16 months leading up to the Australian, she played in five tournaments. Her mother Oracene Price admits that tennis started to bore her daughter, so Serena felt free to pursue some outside interests, like acting (she appeared in an ER episode). Plus, a nagging knee injury stripped some motivation. "Serena is definitely the baby in our family," says Williams' sister Isha of her youngest sib. "She has a little of that 'Woe is me' going on. Like, 'Oh, my God, why am I always injured? Why is the press picking...
...pick up the slack, Charity's closure is putting a great deal of stress on an already overtaxed health care system. Hospital staff more accustomed to treating cuts and chest pains are dealing with severely mentally ill patients and hard-core substance abuse cases. A limited number of ER beds, needed for heart patients and diabetic emergencies, are filled with psychiatric patients who have nowhere else to go. And police and ambulance drivers are being tied up by long waits at emergency units, depriving the city of essential crime fighters and first responders...
...open up for people needing psychiatric care. The New Orleans Police Department, stretched perilously thin since the storm, had 207 cases in the same period where cops waited up to three hours with patients picked up for mental health disorders, or had to drive miles to a suburban ER that could admit them. In many cases, police are bypassing hospitals altogether and taking detainees to jail - an often harrowing destination for the mentally ill, but a place where they can at least receive treatment for the immediate crisis. "That's the Dark Ages," Ebbert says. "That...