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...faut aller voir" (We must go and see) was the motto aboard legendary sea explorer Jacques Cousteau's boat Calypso. With his 1956 Oscar-winning underwater-adventure documentary The Silent World, Cousteau transported millions of viewers to the Indian Ocean islands of Assomption and Aldabra - one of the world's largest coral atolls. Today it's possible to go in person. The Island Sky is a small expedition ship that departs from Mauritius, taking 100 passengers on 12-day-long cruises on these turquoise waters. Wading ashore Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore...
...DIED. GENE PITNEY, 65, wholesome, ebullient former teen idol who crooned melodramatic tales of failed romance, topping the charts in the 1960s with hits including 24 Hours from Tulsa, (The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance and the Oscar-nominated title song for the 1961 film Town Without Pity; apparently of natural causes, while on tour in Britain; in Cardiff, Wales. One of the first acts to be produced by Phil Spector, Pitney got his start behind the scenes, penning hits for artists like Ricky Nelson (Hello Mary Lou), Bobby Vee (Rubber Ball) and the Crystals (He's a Rebel...
...Port Authority policemen trapped beneath the towers' charnel rubble, follows in August. James Vanderbilt's screenplay of Against All Enemies, Clarke's contentious memoir of his career tracking terrorists, which begins with frenetic scenes in the White House on 9/11, is floating around Hollywood. Paul Haggis, fresh from his Oscar upset with Crash, has expressed interest in directing...
...technology be used to serve art? The financial returns will come later. Sean Taylor Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S. time's film critic Richard Corliss said Lucas' Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith was "the most popular live-action digital movie in history." It didn't win any Oscars, however, and that's because it was horrible, not because of some conspiracy against digital technology on the part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. All the technical achievement in the world can't make up for a horrendously bad script. If Lucas wants to save...
...Suffering for Society "Place Your Bets" [March 6] predicted that the movie Brokeback Mountain would win the Academy Award for Best Picture, but the Oscar went to Crash. Brokeback may have lost because of its homosexual theme, but it has a story that everyone can relate to. It is about the road not taken because it is too difficult. We fear failure, and society dictates our behavior. In Brokeback Mountain, we see two worlds: the open, exuberant, vivid natural setting, suggesting what life could be like; and the cramped, suffocating, dark domestic world inhabited by Ennis and Jack, what their...