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...Pope." But he was fascinated by Surrealist theories of automatic drawing and writing; of the importance of chance encounters and intuition; and above all, of rebellion. (He still claims to be an "anarchist, but not violent.") He also met the cream of bohemian Paris, from Jean Giraudoux to Max Ernst and Gertrude Stein. In 1931, after a year hunting game on the Ivory Coast, Cartier-Bresson had a fateful chance encounter when he came across a photograph by the Hungarian Martin Munkacsi: three boys leaping in the waves of Lake Tanganyika. "I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity...
...GOOD THIEF. Neil Jordan, who hasn’t directed a feature since 1999’s The End of the Affair, ends his absence with this heist film, based upon Jean-Pierre Melville’s jazzy 1955 noir Bob le Flambeur. Nick Nolte, who weathered a well-publicized DUI arrest last year, does nothing to rehabilitate his image by starring as a graying, heroin-addicted gambler who tries to rob a casino. Holding the film together are a passel of modern noir/heist elements—the prostitute, the chummy detective, the technology whiz, exotic locations and lush cinematography...
...assassination attempt kicks off a series of subplots that conveniently breaks up the team of X-Men. Familiar characters Storm (Halle Berry) and Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) take off for Boston to retrieve the would-be assassin, while Cyclops (James Marsden) and Professor X (Patrick Stewart) pay a visit to the still-imprisoned misanthropic villain Magneto. Meanwhile, the frightened President is confronted by a McCarthy-like figure named General Stryker (Brian Cox), whose goal, we later learn, is to eradicate mutants from the face of the earth. Stryker is more powerful and knowledgeable than he seems and may even hold...
DIED. CECILE DE BRUNHOFF, 99, who invented the tale of Babar the elephant, which her husband, writer-painter Jean de Brunhoff, and later her son Laurent, turned into the famous, internationally beloved series of illustrated children's books, which now number close to 50; in Paris. To calm her sons Laurent and Mathieu one night in 1930 when the latter was ill, she told the story of an orphaned elephant who flees the jungle and winds up in a big city much like Paris...
...Jean is a columnist for MONEY magazine. You can e-mail her at moneytalk@ moneymail.com