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...turned into a chasm. Many blacks viewed Latinos as interlopers getting a free ride on the civil-rights trail African-Americans had blazed; Latinos resented the notion that they were merely junior partners in minority politics, that their own demands for good jobs, schools and neighborhoods were somehow considered gate-crashing...
...Between 1939-1954, Cannes' highest accolade was called the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film. At the end of the 1954 festival (won by the Japanese movie Gate of Hell), the festival's Board of Directors asked jewelers to submit designs for a palm, in honor of the tree on Cannes' coat of arms. The renowned Lucienne Lazon's design, (a bevelled lower extremity of the stalk forming a heart) in tandem with a pedestal produced by the celebrated artist Sébastien, was greenlit by the board and the Palme d'Or was born. (See photos from...
...forget that there are thousands of people coming in and out, right? So I'm walking Bo out here, and I'm like, O.K., let me take him out so I can eat lunch, and I come here for the interview. And we happen to walk past the gate where the visitors were coming, and I heard this "Yeaaaa! It's Bo!" [Laughter.] And ... what is that? [Laughter.] Oh, shoot. [Laughter.] Oh, I went by the Visitors Gate. Bo is like, Who's calling me? [Laughter.] And you just forget. I was like, Oh, darn, I should have gone around...
...that path, at least for a while, is blocked. Just before our interview, she'd been out on the South Lawn walking Bo when she took a wrong turn. "We happen to walk past the gate where the visitors were coming, and I heard this 'Yeaaaa! It's Bo!' ... Bo is like, 'Who's calling me?' " She's laughing now at the spectacle of a dog who is world-famous, at a house trafficked by thousands of strangers every day, at a life in which every stroll can become a headline. "I was like, Oh, darn, I should have gone...
...much of the 1990s, spoke to large crowds at her front gate every Saturday and Sunday...