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...movie is the fourth feature by French writer and director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, whose previous project was Alien: Resurrection. That 1997 sci-fi horror film established Jeunet in international cinema's big-time, but two years in Hollywood left him longing for the charms of Paris. Back home in Montmartre, Jeunet began planning a film that would reflect Paris in his uniquely colorful and contorted visual style and recapture the dream-like atmosphere of his 1991 black comedy Delicatessen. The intent of Amélie, Jeunet says, was to make audiences feel happy-a goal he has clearly fulfilled...
WOODY ALLEN filed a lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court claiming that Jean Doumanian, his producer, collaborator and friend of 40 years, bilked him out of profits from his last eight films. Friends of Allen and Doumanian were shocked that the former partners may do battle in court. Industry observers were shocked to discover that there were profits from those films. The suit alleges that Doumanian deprived Allen of his guaranteed 50% share of the gross proceeds from his films since 1993. The eight movies in question (spanning from Bullets over Broadway to Small Time Crooks) grossed $67.1 million...
...Dark Places, a factual account of his attempt to find his mother's killer 38 years after the fact. He hired a detective and reinvestigated thousands of old leads. They did not find the killer, but Ellroy is not disappointed. "I suspect part of the whole dynamic of Jean Hilliker Ellroy and me is that I'm not going to know and I'm not meant to know... Closure is bulls___--it's not worth anything." Far from burying the demons that had haunted him since childhood, the exercise brought him to "a level of maturity and of erotic intensity...
...Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" (a French tune by Louiguy and Jacques Larue). A slew of instrumental hits traded in wanderlust: "Lisbon Antigua" (by Raul Portela, Jose Galhardo and Amaduedo Vale, recorded by Nelson Riddle), "The Poor People of Paris" (Marguerite Monnot's "La Goualante De Pauvre Jean," covered by Les Baxter), "Never on Sunday (Manos Hadjidakis), "Petite Fleur" (composed by expatriate jazz lion Sidney Bechet and Fernand Bonifay, and a 1959 hit for Chris Barber...
...Most listeners, though, didn't know that the countrified "The Three Bells" ("Les trois cloches" by Jean Villard) or the Paul Anka "All of a Sudden My Heart Sings" (by Jean-Marie Blanvillain and Laurent Henri Herpin) or "Mack the Knife" (which had five versions in the Top 20 from 1956 to 1959, including Bobby Darin's #1) had come to Tin Pan Alley through Ellis Island. This was music they heard, liked and bought. I also doubt that the decade's record producers were trying to broaden the masses' musical palette; they probably figured that, since catchy tunes were...