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...Cannes festival was complete without some sexually explicit film to stoke outrage and fill screening rooms. Those randy days are long gone, and this year the only erotic hoo-hah was for this intimate German drama about, to get right to the point, naked old people making love - but nothing explicit, danke. Inge (Ursula Werner), a plain hefty woman in her early 60s, is more or less happily married to 70-something Werner (Horst Rehberg), whose idea of excitement is to listen to recordings of model-train sound effects. No wonder she goes for the slightly sprightlier Karl (Horst Westphal...
...Since 1985 this Hollywood legend has brought five films to Cannes - not as special screenings, where he has nothing to lose, but in the ego-bruising competition for the top prize - and the first four times (with Pale Rider, Bird, White Hunter Black Heart and Mystic River he's gone home empty-handed. It's not that the old cowboy needs another trophy: he's twice won Oscars for best director and best picture, with Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby. Perhaps the businessman in him knows that his movies will get more free publicity when he stands on the Grand...
...Yahoo's search business. We're supposed to believe that Yahoo - thanks to Carl Icahn's proxy battle to replace Yahoo's board - is feeling the heat. But it's Microsoft that has everything to lose here. The barbarians are at the gates, and Gates (as in Bill) has gone off to serve humanity. Without a search strategy that works - and with Yahoo potentially linking up with Google, a partnership that is expected to be announced in a few days - Microsoft is an empire in rapid decline...
...that however well we did this year as a team, it had a lot to do with how well how underclassmen did,” Stanton added. “It’s good to know that the team will still do well after we’re gone.”—Staff writer Dixon McPhillips can be reached at fmcphill@fas.harvard.edu...
...dictated who I should hire, and who I should promote." But Weis still knows that, in the end, Daley is the boss. Meanwhile, the new police superintendent has proposed that his officers submit to annual physical fitness tests and adhere to maximum body fat standards. The proposal hasn't gone over well, particularly with older officers. Weis further irritated officers by wearing a police uniform, even though he isn't a sworn officer. He has since promised to wear the uniform only for police academy graduations, funerals and other ceremonies...