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...earlier film succeeds because Grant and Hepburn sparkle under Donen’s playful directing. Although he filmed in Paris alongside French New Wavers Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard in the early 1960s, Donen largely ignored the experimental techniques of his European colleagues and instead channeled his skills as an MGM musicals maestro into crafting a highly stylized and clever thriller scored by Henry Mancini and interlaced with a deadpan humor and snappy script. In one scene, as Grant’s character is forced atop the roof of a Parisian American Express building where he presumably will...
...Gluck amassed a body of historians, including museum advisory-board member Luc Sante, to assist in putting the collection together, along with help from the Kinsey Institute and the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Gluck also bought the "Ralph Whittington Collection," a U-Haul of porn previously owned by Ralph Whittington, 57, a retired Library of Congress curator who lives with his mother near Washington and who kept the world's largest professionally catalogued collection of pornography, carefully labeled in bingo-card boxes that his mother brought home from church. His approach to collecting is far more passionate than that...
...Minister to officiate and clear the air. Sometimes the government shows signs of wanting reform but lacking the stomach to go through with it. Last week, for example, after a junior minister provoked a storm by revealing job reductions planned for France's mammoth public school system, Education Minister Luc Ferry rushed to placate teachers' unions with assurances that only administrative posts would be cut. Budget Minister Alain Lambert and Economy Minister Francis Mer have similarly been at odds on fiscal policy. Their most notable mixup arose over possible tax cuts in 2003?a must if Chirac's extravagant campaign...
...competitors from Australia, New Zealand, South America and South Africa. When French exports started to fall after a bumper year in 1998, growers wondered if they'd got something wrong. "We used to make wine that we knew was good and assumed it would sell itself," says Jean-Luc Dairien, general manager of the French Wines Council, "but that just doesn't work any more...
...Quick Trip Down from the Top "so long, it's been good to know yuh," Woody Guthrie wrote in a 1935 song about migrants during the Great Depression. But now the refrain applies equally well to ceos, whose stays at the top are getting shorter. The career of Luc Vandevelde, 51, right, the Belgian ceo of Marks & Spencer, is a typical case: after joining the company two years ago and helping reverse its decline, he stepped aside last week. A study by consultancy DBM shows that the median tenure for a CEO in the U.K. is now only...