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...Washington's film recalls many worthy Hollywood tracts, Cage's Sonny is in the mold of Cassavetes' gritty, improvised psychodramas. Sonny Phillips (James Franco) is a male prostitute come home to New Orleans after a two-year Army hitch. He wants to put the sex business aside, but he's good at it, and it's the only trade he knows. No surprise here, in the story or the actors' doggedly Method manners. Sonny's main interest is Cage the director returning to the tone of the indie films that gave Cage the actor his wild-man start--in films...
...oats as never before, seems more able to relax and put his political skills to work improving the alliance that is still the primary engine of the E.U. "It's more cold calculation than a warm handshake that brings these two together," says Henrik Uterwedde, deputy director of the Franco-German Institute in Ludwigsburg. "What's important is that they're determined to work with one another." At their dinner, Chirac and Schröder laid out an important marker for this week's high-voltage European Council meeting in Copenhagen. They agreed that the E.U. should start negotiations with...
...getting worse." Vinck adds that the increased controls are pushing migrants to take bigger risks. In Nieuwpoort, a small coastal town 40 km from Zeebrugge, dozens of migrants have attempted to cross the Channel in small boats and rubber dinghies over the past few weeks. As coordinated Franco-British action drives migrants and smugglers away from the Calais-Dover route, towns elsewhere along the coast can expect increased traffic. As an icy drizzle blew in off the Channel last week, Calais resident Jean Godts nodded over at the lights burning behind Saint Pierre-Saint Paul's stained-glass windows. "They...
...Hong Kong Film Awards the following year, and the year after that turned down Ang Lee?s offer to star in ?Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.? By now she?s surely been forgiven for her Cat III antics; last month she starred in the Sino-Franco-American action film ?The Transporter...
...were paid $25,000 each. A senior activist in the Iraqi-backed Arab Liberation Front, Salim also confessed he met with Arafat to clear the distribution of cash, according to Israeli intelligence sources. - By Jamil Hamad, Aharon Klein and Matt Rees/Jerusalem. EUROPE More Fudge Down On The Farm The Franco-German alliance at the heart of the E.U. has some life in it yet. Meeting at an E.U. summit in Brussels, German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and French President Jacques Chirac seemed to clear the way for the E.U.'s enlargement by limiting growth in spending on the Union...