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What's the French for "get over it"? Don't bother asking the defenders of France's lovely and beloved language. A decade after the government of Prime Minister Edouard Balladur passed a law requiring the use of French in all government documents, business contracts, restaurant menus and advertisements, the...
Although he has moved to new geographical territory with Sideways, Payne is familiar with the backdrop. He grew up with Greek parents who drank Scotch and ouzo, but he discovered wine when living alone and cooking, watching Jacques Pépin on PBS. He also had an Italian girlfriend, whose ex...
DIED. JACQUES DERRIDA, 74, French philosopher and intellectual demigod; of pancreatic cancer; in Paris. Born into a Jewish family in Algeria, he earned his reputation with a series of philosophical works that combined daunting academic virtuosity with an enlightened playfulness. A man of immense charm, he was the godfather of...
Why Can't I See My Kid? Re your report on the plight of fathers who are shut out of their children's lives by divorce or the legal system [Sept. 27]: The high divorce or separation rate for marriages in the European Union is well known. In a romantic...
DIED. JANET LEIGH, 77, coolly seductive Hollywood star, who earned immortality as the cinema's prime slasher victim in Hitch-cock's Psycho; in Beverly Hills. She could have settled for being Tony Curtis' wife (for 11 years) and Jamie Lee's mother. But Leigh had a gaze as alert...