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...Morrison on Clinton, Redux Though the reason Toni Morrison gives for calling Bill Clinton the "first black President" sounds very nice ("I said he was being treated like a black on the street [during the Monica Lewinsky scandal], already a perp"), Morrison should reread the article she wrote for the New Yorker to see her original reasons [May 19]. They do not in any way resemble what she says now. Clinton, she wrote in October 1998, "displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas...
...anywhere but in France, the Brooklyn-based director turns from tortured crime movies (The Yards, We Own the Night) to a story of romantic obsession: after a couple of suicide attempts, a young man (Joaquin Phoenix) falls in love with a troubled rich girl (Gwyneth Paltrow) rather than the nice girl (Vinessa Shaw) his parents want him to marry. This is one long toothache of a movie, painfully earnest, not preposterous enough to be enjoyed as camp, and a waste of some very good actors. The Paris critics called Two Lovers "sublime," which sounds even better in French. Maybe something...
...Israeli state). There she meets handsome young Emad (Saleh Bakri, the young stud from The Band's Visit) and gets embroiled with him in a crime that might be described as the reassignment of property. The politics are plausible, the lead actors charming enough, and it's nice to see Palestine by sunset. But in its making, this is an all-too-familiar melodrama. Ordinary is the last word one would think to apply to a film from such a volcanic land, but it's the one that fits here...
...France's charismatic new President Nicolas Sarkozy. Thank you! The man doesn't need to boost his already inflated ego. And furthermore it's way too early to tell if his actions will have any impact on the French people's daily life and on world diplomacy. Anne Bouffet, NICE, FRANCE...
...best programs in the East.”And with all the young talent making their marks over the weekend, that evolution could be just around the corner.“With that many quality guys coming back next year, it’s nice to know that the team will really be able to compete in the next couple of years” Holmquest said of the men’s squad.“For us [seniors], it’s nice to know that however well we did this year as a team...