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...Palme d'Or - as L'Enfant, another dour view of the Belgian underclass by the brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, did at Saturday night's closing ceremony. But the festival organizers, like the rubberneckers outside the Palais, are smitten by star quality. Sharon Stone, one of the few Hollywood actresses adept at radiating that old-time sexual allure, was seen and photographed everywhere. Chief programmer Thierry Frémaux made a point of inviting small films brandishing major marquee names, like Amos Gitai's Israeli drama Free Zone, with Portman as an American taking a risky trip deep into...
...shells - listed businesses with no physical operation - or mining and exploration firms aiming to capitalize on booming energy prices, but with no income. So as long as small-cap exchanges are in vogue, fashion victims are inevitable. - By Adam Smith Getting In The Picture Move over, Hollywood - here comes Hungary. That's the hope of flamboyant Budapest real estate tycoon Sandor Demjan, chairman of TriGranit Development Corporation. With a government go-ahead expected "very soon," according to TriGranit, work is set to begin on a $188-million, state-of-the-art film complex to be built 15 km outside Budapest...
Russell Lyons sees things a bit differently. The 10-year-old from San Diego is hoping summer camp will help foster his career in the film industry. Last summer he spent a week at Pali Overnight Adventures' Hollywood Stunt Camp in California's San Bernardino Mountains. There he got professional instruction on taking 40-ft. free falls onto mats and choreographing fight scenes. Says Lyons, who already has an agent and occasionally leaves school early to go to auditions: "If I ever have to do my own stunts on a shoot, I'm ready...
...toward such camps and away from those that offer a range of general-interest activities. "If a child can explore something he's passionate about at age 10, like photography, he's got a head start," says Barry Vigon, camp director for Pali Overnight Adventures, which, in addition to Hollywood Stunt Camp, operates Secret Agent Camp, Acting Academy, Spa Camp and Rock Star Camp (price: $1,435 for a one-week session). "We've come to realize that camp is much more than recreation," says Marla Coleman, past president of the American Camp Association (ACA). "It's a total education...
...Hollywood seems to be pinning its hope on the Star Wars movie to turn this box office slump around, and I think it will,” said Paul Dergarabedian, president of the Los Angeles-based film industry tracker Exhibitor Relations. “Never have we needed a Star Wars movie so badly...