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...Hogwash," says Morrison Bonpasse, executive director of the Lucy Stone League. (Stone, who married Henry Blackwell in 1855, is believed to be the first American woman to have kept her birth name after marriage.) "If you really think that there's equality, ask him to change his name." Alternatively, says Bonpasse, look at Hillary Rodham and Teresa Heinz, who adopted the names Clinton and Kerry only during their respective husbands' gubernatorial and presidential campaigns. If a wife who doesn't take her husband's name is a political liability, Bonpasse says, it's hard to believe the fight for gender...
...festival bosses choose nine or 10 distinguished members of the film and literary community to serve. This year's Jury comprises directors Emir Kusturica (President), Fatih Akin, Benoit Jacquot, Agnes Varda and John Woo; actresses Nandita Das and Salma Hayek; actor Javier Bardem; and Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison...
...looking to the past two years, when the Palme winners Elephant and Fahrenheit 9/11 were both critical of American society, suggests that the Palme might go to Lars Von Trier's Manderlay, a parable of freed slaves reluctant to give up their old servitude. Hmmm... we wonder what Toni Morrison thinks of that film...
...persons. Two films fitting that description are Marco Tullio Giordano's illegal-immigrant drama Once You're Born and the nutsy-sexy Mexican Battle in Heaven. A third, as Cannes' official announcer Patrick Fabre told me at a swank party where we sat at the same table with Toni Morrison and Morgan Freeman (have I broken the record for name-dropping in a subordinate clause?), is the quasi-Kurdish war epic Kilometre Zero. That movie has an image that is pure Kusturica: of a Kurdish soldier so eager to get out of the Iraqi army that during one trench battle...
...lyrics, “Through the static and distance, a farewell transmission: listen.” In this passage, you can hear his voice nearly break with seemingly genuine exhaustion and desperation. It’s this sheer channeling of raw emotion that makes singers great: Dylan, Jim Morrison, Jeff Tweedy...