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...Glam and grim: that is the Cannes cocktail. Though flashbulbs still pop and traffic stops for stars like Elizabeth Taylor and Calista Flockhart, the festival no longer pays much notice to big-budget Hollywood films, and the feeling is mutual. Gladiator is not here, nor Mission: Impossible 2. Gilles Jacob, the Cannes program director, who will step down after the current festival, has not been to Hollywood in five years. Instead, he woos the reigning masters of Europe and Asia, as well as America's indie auteurs. Jacob wants the universe of movie people in Cannes to find artistic life...
Very few of us are breathing easy these days. That grim news comes courtesy of an American Lung Association study, released Tuesday, that rates the air quality in cities across the nation - and hands failing grades to nearly half. Those receiving F's include a broad cluster of California cities, as well as many other, less predictable metropolitan areas like Birmingham, Ala., and Wilmington, Del. Leaping to the defense of recent, tougher anti-smog regulations, the Environmental Protection Agency has already criticized the report, claiming the ALA rankings, while technically accurate, don't represent the efforts of many pollution-prone...
Remember when you were a kid, and there was a blizzard outside and you thought you'd get a day off? Then you saw that school bus heading up the street? To recapture that grim feeling of disappointment, listen to Hanson's new CD. On the brothers' debut, we gave 'em a pass, partly because they looked like little elves, partly because that song MMMBop was so darn catchy. Now they're older (ages 14, 17 and 19), two have cut their hair (goodbye, elf appeal), and though a couple of tracks are hummable, most of their new songs...
...which few Americans cast votes that will matter, can hardly serve as an adequate test of a candidate's fitness for national office. In 1980, 21 percent of convention delegates were selected by March 15. Today, 63 percent are. A front-loaded process also leads to the current grim spectacle of a seven-month-long general election campaign...
...young executive who is singled out and verbally harassed at a meeting by a superior. Both the player and the young executive know that their elders hold the sole key to their respective successes: One to the NBA, one to upper management. They also each know the grim truth: Bearing witness to a superior's misbehavior can be tantamount to career suicide...