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...Winners BILL CLINTON Chilling out in Rio, former U.S. Prez drops $113 in a local shop on a pair of bikinis and three sarongs. Don't ask. Just don't ask ASCENSION FRANCO GONZALES Undocumented immigrant finds $203,000 on L.A. street, gives all of it back. That's how the INS guessed he wasn't a real American BARNEY THE LOBSTER One-meter-long crustacean is saved from the pot by a merciful chef in London. When it comes to shellfish, size does matter Losers MICHAEL JACKSON King of Pop opens trading at NASDAQ, only to see stocks tumble...
...European auteurs in Gregory and Maria Pearse?s Truth-in-Cinema Quest site and the panoramic considerations of themes in Chinese movies on Peter Nepstad?s The Illuminated Lantern. And I?m agreeably flummoxed by the attention ladled onto the 175 films made by Spanish bad-film auteur Jesus Franco. Tim Lucas? overview is almost enough to force me to watch, again and again, those tortured films with gorgeous naked women. Anything for film research...
Sick of movie-star biopics? Then there's little to change your mind in this one, written by Israel Horovitz and directed by Mark Rydell: celeb struggles to overcome childhood demons, audience struggles to find the remote. It's worth seeing, though, because James Franco uncannily channels the sulky, sexy, short-lived heartthrob. Franco recalls not just Dean's recklessness and (cue E! True Hollywood Story music) his icy relationship with his father (Michael Moriarty), but also the acting craft of a phenom who lived hard and left a good-looking memory...
November 20, 1975: Generalismo Francisco Franco, ruler of fascist Spain for 36 years, dies...
...dozen others, members of the Guardia Civil and former Socialist officials in the autonomous Basque region - has been a propaganda gift for ETA. It has also served to convince a significant number of moderate Basques that the central government still wants to crush their cultural identity, just as Franco did. Woodworth writes that not only did the dirty war fail to destroy ETA, but the investigations - or lack thereof - into its members and backers provided "rich material for an ideology which viewed the Basques as victims of a murderous Spanish state apparatus...