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Dragone, 50, is a Belgian with the soul of a Frenchman. In conversation his jagged English lurches between profound existential lows ("Sometimes I do not know if the show will work--I do not know how it could") and exuberant, absurdist highs ("That character, he is the moon!"). "There's no light at the end of the tunnel with Franco," says Mia Michaels, A New Day's choreographer. "Most directors I work for say, 'This is what I want--this is how we'll get it.' He's just like 'Whatever you want to do, do it. Create what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diva Las Vegas | 3/17/2003 | See Source »

...voice is provided by Sokurov) explaining that he has just awoken after a terrible, mysterious “accident.” The audience and the Author next find themselves in 18th century Russia, being led through a museum-tour through history by another time traveler, a 19th-century Frenchman, the Marquis (Sergey Dreiden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Film Preview | 2/28/2003 | See Source »

Michel, 65, a Frenchman who stepped down as CEO in January and was succeeded by American Gerald Grandey, 56, spent his career turning Cameco from a Canada-focused mining company into a worldwide energy conglomerate. Cameco's goal is to become the ExxonMobil of uranium: a vertically integrated multinational involved in every stage of the fuel cycle, from extracting raw ore to fuel enrichment to delivering fuel rods. The company is a middleman in the U.S.-Russian program to import and reprocess uranium from decommissioned Soviet-era warheads, for use in reactors. With its 15% stake in the Bruce Power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Nuclear Rock | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

...disreputable foreign invention. Today, thanks to superstar chef Alain Ducasse, veteran of New York's Essex House and Paris' Plaza Athénée, fast food is well on its way to attaining gourmet credibility. How did Ducasse pull off this culinary miracle? Simple. Like any self-respecting Frenchman, he invented an original concept (original, at least, to Paris). That concept is Be, a new shop that Ducasse opened in the city's posh eighth arrondissement. Be - which presents itself as "the very first bakery-grocery store" - is a corner shop reimagined by a fashion magazine. Wicker baskets behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making the Sandwich Chic | 1/19/2003 | See Source »

...second "cloned" baby, this time in Europe. The news comes just days after the sect's first claim of a successful clone, and has sparked worldwide skepticism - and intense curiosity: who are the Raelians and what do they believe? TIME's Anne Berryman spoke to Raelian Damien Marsic, a Frenchman now living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Are the Raelians? | 1/4/2003 | See Source »

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