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...Groundhog Day is perpetual. Last week, Blair was still asking Bush to get involved. Perhaps the rumors are true that James Baker (who orchestrated the 1991 Madrid conference that finally got the Israelis and Palestinians talking) will recommend another big confab, so Blair, who tried to get one going in 2003, is pushing against an open door. Unfortunately, during the long hiatus when Blair has been imploring Bush for help, relations between Israel and the Palestinians have soured to curdling and U.S. influence with Arab states has plummeted. "Besides the residual, declining power of America, Bush doesn't have...
Back when Mexico was still a colony of Madrid, Monterrey was frontier--much like America's Wild West, more than 200 years later--settled by a rugged cast of characters, including unmoored Jews and some in trouble with the Spanish crown, whose present-day descendants are fiercely proud of their heritage and the modern metropolis they developed. Monterrey is the most important business center in the country after Mexico City. It's as if San Antonio, Texas, went on to become Pittsburgh, Pa., skipping the Rust Belt phase. This city of nearly 4 million, often confused by Americans with...
...Cruz as the embodiment of motherhood in a movie about three generations of women surviving the wild winds of his home turf, La Mancha, Spain--winds that blow in fires, death and some superfluous men. Volver is Spanish for return. Fittingly, with the film, Almodóvar has reclaimed the Madrid-born Cruz from the lost- property department of blond and bland Hollywood, where she has lived for the past several years carrying the cross of exoticism through a series of disappointing movies and tabloid-tracked relationships with Sexiest Man Alive--type guys. With Volver, she is prompting people to talk...
...cinema exports indebted to the director, Antonio Banderas. From then on, "my main motivation to become an actress was to work with Pedro," Cruz says. "I was kind of obsessed about it." In 1997, at 22, she got her wish, playing a prostitute loudly giving birth on a Madrid city bus in Live Flesh. Then the director, whose films are populated by heroic transvestites and lovable hookers, cast her in another memorable maternity part in All About My Mother, in 1999, this time as a pregnant, HIV-positive...
...NEXT: Wilson (R) v. Madrid...