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...This year is still relatively young, and Wong's romantic epic, in the version shown at Cannes, is not quite finished. Still, we say that?because of its passion, its craft, its belief in the grace and pain of love?2046 is the film...
Hobeika did not fair as well as the other Crimson wrestlers. Up 6-3 near the end of her first match against No. 10 Grace Magnussen, ended up losing after Magnussen picked up four quick points to win the match...
...1960s-era mistress with a panoply of pouts, flirtations and surrendering smiles. It's a spectacular star performance in a rapturous ode to love and loss set in China's past, present and future. The year is still young, but - in its passion, its craft, its belief in the grace and pain of love - 2046 may be the film of 2004. If Cannes' solid program lacked anything, it was an old-fashioned film scandale. In another venue, Fahrenheit 9/11 might have done the trick; but since nearly everyone at Cannes is left wing, the debate was minimal (except for Godard...
...Grace and Power begins the day after Kennedy was elected and wafts us lightly through to his assassination and its aftermath. Smith's primary focus is on the lopsided, bittersweet love story of Jack and Jackie, but she finds time to document in exhaustive detail Kennedy's many infidelities--yes, she digs up a few new ones--as well as Jackie's exceptional grasp of tactical flirtation, cutting off Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev mid-lecture by saying, "Oh, Mr. Chairman, don't bore me with statistics." Somewhere in the background, we glimpse Jack's political evolution from the hothead...
...Wing, but otherwise there is nothing particularly revelatory or shocking here. And there's something a little surreal about the book's lack of perspective. Kennedy was a President who confronted the unthinkable in many forms, be it nuclear annihilation or Oleg Cassini dancing the twist with Robert McNamara. Grace and Power gives them equal weight. --By Lev Grossman