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DIED "I got addicted," Karine Ruby, 31, once said of her passion for snowboarding, which she took up at age 11. The Frenchwoman, who won six world championships and an Olympic gold medal, died in a climbing accident on France's Mont Blanc...
...title evoke the tensions surrounding Hector Ennepeque, Feydeau’s semi-autobiographical main character, as he waits for his wife Léonie to give birth. His anxiety is exacerbated by snobby in-laws and a domineering midwife. Though the character of the midwife was a pushy Frenchwoman in the Feydeau original, Shapiro’s translation renders her a robust “German frau.” “I thought it would be a little funnier to create this Valkyrie-type character,” he says.Shapiro takes a “certain amount...
...some people live to be older than others? You know the standard explanations: keeping an abstemious diet; engaging in regular exercise; and, if you're an unusual Frenchwoman, smoking cigarettes until you are 117 years...
...Sorry, too entertaining.) Brad Pitt had a scuzzy majesty as Jesse James, and his missus was nobly agonized in A Mighty Heart, but neither Bra nor ngelina was nominated. Meanwhile, foreigners flourished: nine of the 20 acting slots went to the Brits, the Aussies and the tragic, singing Frenchwoman - Marion Cotillard, giving a Susan Hayward-meets-Judy Garland performance in La Vie en Rose. Sorry, Marion who? It's as if the voters thought, there might still be a strike, no big names will show up, so let's give the prizes to the honorable second tier...
...Johnny Deep (Sweeney Todd) and Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose) won for comedy or musical. The Supporting prizes went to Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men) and Cate Blanchett (I'm Not There). For you xenophobes keeping score, yes, that's five foreign winners - two Anglos, a Frenchwoman, a Spaniard and an Aussie - and an American who lives in France. All these winners are shoo-ins for Oscar nominations. So is Juno, the indie comedy that has that Little Miss Sunshine sheen and has already topped Sunshine's total box-office gross...