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...Pictures had a low-budget hit last year with the pro-life drama Bella. "But do you know any filmmakers who would make them or studios that would release them?" McEveety eventually secured a release for Carol in more than 2,000 theaters in the U.S. through Vivendi, a French firm that is expanding from home entertainment into theatrical distribution. American companies shied away for political reasons, not financial ones, the filmmakers believe...
...French journalist and philosopher (apparently still at least a part-time profession in the 21st century) Levy is in full finger-wagging mode in this latest polemic. Unlike the grounded, tangible arguments of 2006's excellent American Vertigo--in which he roamed the U.S. ŕ la Tocqueville and painted a portrait of a nation both majestic and mad--there's an intellectual ranginess to Dark Times that makes it difficult to pin down. The object of Levy's ire is the left, or rather, "the monsters that the new laboratories of what we in Europe call Leftism and what Americans...
...provide a unique comedic service on campus certainly, but also for the college media world in general,” says Greaves, who has worked on other HRTV programs such as Ivory Tower and Respectably French...
...fact that I have a Haitian grandfather may seem, to some, an odd thing to bond me to the CVS employees. I thought so at first, too. At the beginning of the year, I would grab my soda and poptarts, exchange a brief greeting in French with the cashier, and go back to my dorm and my studies without another thought. Each time I came to CVS, I was struck by how glad the Haitian employees were to see me. The year wore on and our French greetings turned to lengthier French banter, and still I could not understand...
...centuries, the Golan Heights changed hands incessantly, enduring brief bouts of occupation by everyone from Alexander the Great to the Roman Empire. The area finally settled under the control of the Ottomans in the 16th century, where it remained until the dissolution of the Empire after World War I. French mandated modern-day Syria emerged from its ashes and the Golan Heights was included within its newly defined borders...