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...OFTEN IS FILMMAKING A matter of life and death? It was just that for Massimo Troisi, star of The Postman (Il Postino). Enfeebled by a heart condition, the Italian actor was able to work only an hour or two a day on his dream movie, whose story imagined a friendship between Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and a simple postman. Two cardiologists and an oxygen tent stood by on the set for Troisi, 41, who couldn't walk more than a few feet before sitting down. A high school gym teacher had to serve as his body double for more than...
...would be wearing the shy, radiant smile that illuminates Il Postino, for last week the film received five nominations from the Motion Picture Academy in Hollywood. Though unsanctioned by the usual arbiters of artistic chic--film festivals and critics' groups--and something less than a breakout box-office hit of the Like Water for Chocolate variety, Il Postino became the first foreign-language film nominated for best picture since Ingmar Bergman's Cries and Whispers 22 years ago. Troisi was cited for his performance, Radford for his direction. Both the screenplay and the score were also nominated. In a race...
...Joliet, IL and Eliot House...
Figuring outNorth Korea's leadershipcould make even a Kremlinologist's head spin, but it looks as though Kim Jong Il -- son of the late PresidentKim Il Sung-- may finally be running the show. Today, on the eve of the anniversary of elder Kim's death, North Korean television showed the younger Kim seated at a dais with other dignitaries as a military band played a patriotic song. "The revolutionary cause pioneered by President Kim Il Sung is now being successfully carried forward under the wise guidance of the great leader, Comrade Kim Jong Il," Yang Hyong Sop, North Korea...
...Jung Il...