Word: ims
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...distinguished panel. Another Cannes first: a Bollywood musical, Devdas, was part of the official selection, luring Indian mega-muffin Shahrukh Khan to this dappled Riviera town. For the fifth time in six years, at least one major prize went to an East Asian film: Chihwaseon, by Korean film legend Im Kwon Taek. All in all, another triumphant year for Asia at the world's biggest festival...
...pretty film with pretty people singing of love and loss; exactly one critic (this one) was there at the end. As for Chihwaseon, one insider announced a few hours before the awards ceremony that the jury had decided to give it the Palme d'Or (top prize). Yet Im settled for half of the Best Director prize (roughly a fourth-place award); he had to share it with U.S. director Paul Thomas Anderson, cited for the Adam Sandler comedy Punch-Drunk Love...
...Roman Polanski's The Pianist, a conventional, if sharply drawn, epic about a Jew surviving the Warsaw Ghetto. Second place, the Grand Prix, went to Aki Kaurismaki's The Man Without a Past?one of the deadpan-comic Finn's finest films, but more sweet than startling. And Im's thanks-for-coming prize was the only laurel Asia received. The one competing Chinese film, Jia Zhangke's Unknown Pleasures, got nothing. As for Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and Thailand, they had no films invited to the main festival. India too: Devdas was shown out of competition...
...other side of the issue, mothers of "queen bees" should be very specific with their daughters that the same rules for treating people decently face-to-face also apply to IM-ing or phoning. These moms should also consider controlling access to these weapons of lass destruction by removing conference-calling and call-waiting features and limiting time on the computer. And they should caution their girls against using incendiary language, which is a huge temptation with IM-ing; the word slut is the current favorite pejorative. Girls who know exactly what the rules are will get that...
...will be awarded to Adams tomorrow at 3:45 p.m. on the steps of the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC), when Cabot’s IM chairs will bring the trophy down from the Quad where it has resided for the last seven years...