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...Maybe this is just an off-year for international cinema. About this lineup, Cannes' Gilles Jacob and Thierry Fremeaux might mount the usual defense you hear from film festival programmers: "We can discover good films, but we can't invent them...
...Technically, the Tigers did not invent modern suicide bombing - the first such attack was against the American embassy in Beirut in 1983. They did however turn it into a vicious art form. Tigers adapted explosives so that they could be used on land, sea and air - thanks to the purchase of what Sri Lankan intelligence services say is a small squadron of microlight aircraft. Bombs were disguised to fit around, and even inside, the body. Among Tiger victims: a president, the head of the Sri Lankan air force, a minister of national security, an opposition leader and a former prime...
...ORIENTALIST TOM REISS Madonna didn't invent self-reinvention. Born in 1905, Lev Nussimbaum fled the political violence of his native Azerbaijan for the swanky salons of proto-fascist Europe. There he became a swinging socialite and best-selling author using a totally made-up identity, that of a romantic Muslim prince named Essad Bey, a creature of curvy daggers and Moorish sighs. Commingling East and West, art and politics, and featuring countless cameos by the great and powerful, Nussimbaum's unlikely life (lives?) reads like a secret history of the 20th century...
RETIRING. MIKE WALLACE, 87, after 38 years as the face of CBS' groundbreaking television news program 60 Minutes; in the spring; in New York City. Over a storied career begun on Chicago radio in the 1940s, the ex-game-show host helped invent the TV interview with a hard-charging approach to subjects from Eleanor Roosevelt to Yasser Arafat. He will become correspondent emeritus, a post he said entitled him to "longer vacations...
...says, “We have to figure out how to tell the story. What can we touch? If we can touch enough of it, can we make a shape out of it? How do we unlock this part of the world? We use limitations as moments to invent...