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...Gloria" (Laura Branigan) from the Italian song by Umberto Tozzi and Giancarlo Bigazzi "I Can't Help Falling in Love With You" (Elvis Presley) from the 18th century French ballad "Plaisir d'amour" by Jean-Pierre Claris "It's Now or Never" (Elvis Presley) from the 19th century Italian song "O Sole Mio" by Giovanni Capurro and Eduardo Di Capua "Jealousy" (Frankie Laine) from the "gypsy tango" by the Danish composer Jacob Gade "Let It Be Me" (The Everly Brothers) from the French song "Je t'appartiens" by Gilbert Becaud and Pierre Delanoe "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" (The Tokens) from...
...Broadway, French dramatists were all the rage: the plays of Jean Giraudoux and Samuel Beckett had good runs, as did the musicals "La Plume de ma tante" and "Irma la douce"; the young Hepburn entranced New York audiences as Colette's Gigi and Jean Anouilh's Ondine. Novels from Germany, Italy, Japan - pretty much any nation the Allies had conquered - were must reading for the intelligentsia. Jean-Paul Sartre was so famous he was parodied in Hepburn's Paris frolic "Funny Face...
...even the more passive folks, sitting in their living room in front of that new magic gadget, got a world view. ABC's weekend movie slot was frequently filled with British product; I keenly recall an airing of the 1949 "Blue Lagoon," with 20-year-old Jean Simmons as the most thrilling mermaid. The Sunday afternoon show "Omnibus" presented classical concerts, up-and-coming comic talents (Mike Nichols and Elaine May) and foreign films, including the U.S. premiere of Laurence Olivier's "Richard...
...Alcatel Optronics Public company based in Nozay, France CEO: Jean-Christophe Giroux What it does: Makes active and passive optical components Why it is hot: As one of the few companies that can offer a full range of products, it's catching up to U.S. rivals in market share and is currently bidding $5 billion to buy rival Lucent Technologies' optic fiber unit www.alcatel.com/optronics...
After an abortive mid-'90s stint in Hollywood helming two Jean-Claude Van Damme actioners, Tsui returned home for a rest and a good think. "I had been working nonstop for too long," he says. "You have to get away and get a fresh perspective." Now he's back, frenetic as ever. He has done a remake of Zu with a hot young cast (including Crouching Tiger star Zhang Ziyi). He also produced Hong Kong's big Easter hit, the live-action-plus-animation Master...