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...Prime Number $47 billion to be paid to an 84-year-old Mexican woman after a court ruled that her $6,000 deposit in 1988 should benefit from the astronomical interest rates of 1990s Mexico...
...Destin d'Amélie Poulain (The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain), a Parisian fairy tale generating ecstatic reviews. Last week, the film ended its second week in theaters as France's box office leader with over 2 million tickets sold more than double American rival The Mexican, with Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt. Filmgoers are being charmed by Amélie's gentle quirkiness and its evident fondness for Paris' Montmartre area. Currently limited to theaters in France and Belgium, the film will soon roll out internationally under the English title Amélie from Montmartre...
...Greeley and goes West; in California, he runs out of America. It is the culmination and extinction of hope. The vision of plenty for everyone becomes a mockery - a process whose impact is amply documented by the 1930s social-realist segments of this show, with their dock strikers and Mexican migrant workers pitted against grasping Anglo bosses. Different cultures and immigrant races swirl around, not in a melting pot as some optimists have supposed but in unappeased opposition to one another...
Which is part of the point. Youth culture often rejects the past; Aterciopelados is leading a wave of Latin acts that are dragging tradition into the present. In Brazil, performers like Moreno Veloso are blending bossa nova with electronica; in Mexico, Nortec Collective, an organization of Mexican artists, recently released The Tijuana Sessions Vol. 1, a groundbreaking CD fusing traditional norteno (a kind of polka-esque music) with clubland techno. Echeverri and Buitrago are particularly proud that Gozo Poderoso was recorded in Colombia--and in Spanish. "Identity and roots are very important for us," says Echeverri. "We've been listening...
Schickel's review was symptomatic of how easy it is to be seduced by the false hype of Hollywood marketing. As Schickel noted, the movie is bloody, but that is about it. It presents a pathetic image of social scum. Why not promote other, better Mexican films such as Herod's Law, Two Crimes and even Recipes to Stay Together? JAIME LAGUNEZ OTERO Mexico City...