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...world's largest film festival, held every May in Cannes on the French Riviera, also doubles as a more refined Academy Awards. Past winners of the Palme d'Or--Cannes' top prize--have been sex, lies and videotape; Pulp Fiction and Apocalypse Now, all of which were almost completely snubbed when it was time to give out little golden statues in America. It should come as no surprise that Rosetta, this year's controversial winner of the Palm, is being released in the US with little fanfare, and probably to a limited run. It's a shame because films like...
DIED. HORST, 93, photographer of the rich and fashionable; in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. Born Horst P. Horst, he infused his dramatic, stylized shots of such glitterati as Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel and Andy Warhol with ashtrays and other everyday details, assuring worried fashion editors that "my best pictures always have a little mess...
Sandy Batkin, 76, is one such paternalist. He felt he had to sell his Universal Folding Box Co. in Hoboken, N.J., after his heirs made it clear they had no interest in carrying on the business. But he held out until he found a buyer, Workflow Management of Palm Beach, Fla., that would pledge to keep his 165 employees. "I know almost all the employees by name," says Batkin. "I know their families. It was very important to me that I sell to a company that was not going to liquidate and move the business somewhere else...
...Orleans 2 Cleveland 3 Grand Rapids 4 Long Island, New York 5 Milwaukee 6 Norfolk 7 Rochester 8 Tampa 9 Orlando 10 Chicago 11 Riverside 12 Detroit 13 Salt Lake City 14 Minneapolis 15 West Palm Beach...
...convenience. For anywhere from $200 to $500, they offer calendars, address books, word processors, Web browsing and more. These aren't high-octane versions of the leading programs, but exchanging files with desktop machines is easy. This year's updates will get you MP3 music on your handheld, and Palm's wireless Net access is just the beginning of what promises to be a huge trend in portable computing. Like everything else in personal technology, there's no single standard for handhelds, with the Palm, Windows CE devices and Psion all going their own ways. You'll have to compare...