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Finally! For nine days, the 61st Cannes Film festival had doddered along into a premature senility. What we got, mostly, were cautious reprises of top directors, earlier pictures - from European minimalism, by Euro-faves like the Dardenne brothers and Nuri Bilge Ceylan (which, you have to admit, is a great name) - to Hollywood gigantism from the Indiana Jones team. The Riviera fortnight has been so stodgy that we almost welcomed a wild, four-and-a-half hour misfire like Steven Soderbergh's Che. But now our (my) patience has been rewarded, our (my) biliousness calmed. One good movie...
...Havel may not be recounting his own life story, but he is clearly drawing on his experience as one of the leading figures of Eastern Europe's democratic transformation. Czech audiences are being offered a rare perspective on a pivotal period in eastern European history. So far, they appear to like what they see. The 71-year-old playwright attended the opening with his actress wife (who was originally cast in the play but dropped out at the last moment) and received a 10-minute standing ovation. He thanked the audience quickly and then rushed off stage...
...month to discuss a possible resolution to the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process. "We must be able to talk if we want to play a role," French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner told a Paris-based radio station on May 19. Hamas claims it's had similar contact with other European countries, despite U.S. attempts to isolate the group. "We don't believe [such discussions are] helpful to the process of bringing peace to the region," a U.S. State Department spokesman said...
...lost for business," grumbled a top Russian banker on Wednesday. His sentiment may have been shared, at the end of the day, by Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, whose London-based soccer team Chelsea was beaten 6-5 on penalty kicks by Manchester United in the European Champion's League final played in the Russian capital. But the banker's complaint was simply that he had no way to move around the Moscow to keep appointments, given the traffic restrictions all over the city to allow smooth passage for the 970 special buses whisking Chelsea and United fans, separately, from airports...
...while Russia turned down British demands to extradite Andrei Lugovoi, prime suspect in the murder of former Russian security officer Aleksander Litvinenko. It would be premature, however, to judge the blanket visa approval as signaling a thaw in relations, rather than simply a necessary move to remain onside with European soccer authorities. This week, Russian security offficials again raided the Moscow headquarters of the British oil company BP, whose operation and holdings in Russia are coveted by Russia's hydrocarbon state...