Word: julians
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...films tagged as front-runners - 4 Months, Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, Carlos Reygadas' Stellet Licht, Fatih Akim's German-Turkish family drama The Edge of Heaven and the Coens' adaptation of a Cormac McCarthy novel - all but one was lauded tonight. The one you might be looking forward to: the Coen movie...
...Johnny Depp was originally to play Bauby, but Pirates of the Caribbean came along to monopolize his time. So director Julian Schnabel, whose previous films, Basquiat and Before Night Falls, were studies of artists isolated from their surroundings, had the sensible idea to make this story -of a Frenchman and his French medical angels -in French, with Mathieu Amalric as Bauby (or, as he is called in the film, Jean Do). The result is an affecting, imaginatively told parable of human triumph over excruciating obstacles: instead of My Left Foot, this is My Left...
...solemnly mark the anniversary of the terrorist attacks in America, Ethiopians will be partying like it's 1999. That's because in Ethiopia, it really is 1999 - unlike most nations today that use the Gregorian calendar, the East African nation of more than 70 million has stuck to a Julian-inspired one. And according to that calendar, September 11 just happens to be the last day of the 20th century...
...Julian Mitchell, an analyst with Credit Suisse, applauds Kleinfeld for sorting out the bad businesses in the company's portfolio but says Siemens--no matter who runs it--still has a lot of work to do. "The next phase is all about improving execution in the core areas of the company, the areas the company is good at, like power and automation and health care, and then further streamlining the portfolio," he says...
When the partying is over, you can bed down nearby, thanks to a pair of upmarket hotels. The Courtyard by Marriott Düsseldorf Hafen, tel: (49-211) 49390, houses Julian's Bar, with its red chaise longues and fat leather sofas, which is a popular spot for predinner drinks. Milanese architect Matteo Thun's modern masterpiece, the Radisson SAS Media Harbour Hotel, www.radisson.com/dusseldorfde_harbour, is done up with a sleek Brazilian slate facade, features an outstanding health club and spa and another of the neighborhood's standout restaurants, Amano, www.amano-medienhafen.de. In MedienHafen, there's no shortage of good food...