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...film in the other groups). Best directors were David Fincher for Benjamin Button (NBR), Danny Boyle for Slumdog (D.C. and L.A.) and Mike Leigh for Happy-Go-Lucky (New York). Screenplay prizes were allotted to Slumdog, Benjamin Button, Happy-Go-Lucky, Rachel Getting Married and Gran Torino. Art-house habituées may wish to know that Man on Wire was judged best documentary by all four groups (the only clean sweep), and that the best foreign-language films were Mongol (NBR), the Swedish vampire drama Let the Right One In (D.C.), the Chinese Still Life (L.A.) and the Romanian...
...forefront is Jean-Christophe Ansanay-Alex ("J.C. A.A." to his habitués), who likes to take an English staple like fish and chips with mushy peas and turn it into Dover sole with vegetable root chips, sauce Paloise and green-pea puree. The onetime personal chef to Christina Onassis, Ansanay-Alex gives British ingredients the Gallic once-over - think beef stuffed with oysters and served with Guinness sauce - at his South Kensington restaurant, Ambassade de L'Ile, www.ambassadedelile.com...
...there ways to protect children online short of shutting down chat rooms? Many Internet companies have decided that a reasonably effective method of weeding out sexual predators is to require chat room habitués to register - and pay. Users must cough up a subscription fee, along with a credit-card number and personal information that can then be used to trace the perpetrator of any future abuse. Indeed, Microsoft itself will in some nations - including the U.S., Japan and Canada - require such subscriptions of between $2 and $10 per month to gain access to MSN chat rooms...
...weekend evening, the park is crowded with record buyers, traders and tape pirates, who carry a list of merchandise and escort a customer to a private apartment where money and merchandise change hands. The result of this underhanded commerce is a surprisingly timely taste for Western trends. One habitué of the park recently boasted of owning "two Sex Pistols records and an Ian Dury." Another effect is more striking: tolerance-unofficial, of course-of the record deals, and an attempt to give Soviet pop some Western-style spin...
...habitué of America's choked freeways, parkways, beltways, highways and byways might have guessed, more than half the gasoline consumed in the world is consumed in the U.S. That statistic implies a profligacy that might be expected to give Americans pause. But with the recession receding and the 1973 Arab oil embargo a dimming memory, Americans appear to be pausing not at all. The Federal Energy Administration noted last week that gasoline currently is being guzzled at a pace that seems certain to drown all previous records...