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...Gilles Jacob and Thierry Fremeaux, who choose the Cannes slate, seem to recognize this problem. That's why they pack their program with American items from Oscar-winning directors. This year Clint Eastwood brings Changeling, starring Angelina Jolie, and Woody Allen has Vicky Christina Barcelona, with Oscar-winner Javier Bardem, Oscar-nominee Penelope Cruz and Woody's latest muse, Scarlett Johansson. Steven Soderbergh is presenting the 4-1.2-hr. Che, with Benicio del Toro as the sexy South American insurrectionist...
...Beyond the red-carpet celebrimania, Cannes can still offer what it has provided for six decade: a first peek at some of the world's best films. Last year's festival saw the debut of the Coen brothers' Oscar-winning No Country for Old Men, plus such 10-best titles as The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Persepolis the Israeli charmer The Band's Visit and the out-of-nowhere Romanian sensation 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days. The Cannes imprimatur helped critics alert moviegoers to these fine films, and a large or little bandwagon got rolling. Mission accomplished...
...need? A couple of attractive actors, a goofy, but not entirely implausible, premise, a modicum of snappy dialogue, the navigation of a handful of embarrassing situations, before the couple finally realizes that, all kidding aside, they were meant for each other. You don't have to be Oscar Wilde, or for that matter, Neil Simon, to pull that...
...During a May 7 food-security summit in Managua involving the ALBA countries and Nicaragua's neighbors in Central America and the Caribbean, various Presidents spoke of the failure of a free-market globalization model promoted by the United States. Even more conservative leaders, such as Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, appeared to side with the leftists leaders, with whom he is normally at odds, in criticizing the values and priorities of the United States. Arias criticized the United States's offer of $1 billion in food aid as insufficient compared to the amount it spends on war in Iraq...
...Oscar Wilde once resolved, “Somehow or other I’ll be famous, and if I’m not famous, I’ll be notorious.” This is not as easy as it sounds. Oscar could make one flippant remark about his blue china and find himself catapulted onto the national scene. I make a lot of flippant remarks about a variety of things, and I can’t even get onto GossipGeek...