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Immigrant journalism is often colored by homeland politics. San Francisco's eight Chinese-language papers tend to side with either Taiwan or the People's Republic. The Haiti Observateur, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based weekly with a circulation of 45,000, was founded in 1971 as a challenge to Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, the country's self-appointed President for Life. All but one of California's 24 Vietnamese papers excoriate Hanoi, while the Philippine News, with 73,000 readers, opposes Ferdinand Marcos...
From nowhere -- well, Yugoslavia, actually -- came one of the few entries to uphold the standard of defiantly indigenous "little" films, Emir Kusturica's Papa's Away on a Business Trip. A brutal, poignant, exuberant story of a family rent by political and sexual chicanery, Papa boasts nary a Hurt nor a Kinski among its actors, and earned every frond of Cannes's grand prize, the Palme...
...newsmen, the government tried to shut away many of these children in a nearby detention center. Last week one boy, barely in his teens, who had escaped the roundup, began holding onto an American journalist, writing down what looked like a G.I. serial number and repeating, over and over, "Papa." Within minutes, a policeman seized the boy and dragged him away in handcuffs. By then, however, the plaintiveness of his appeal, like the toughness of his country, had left its mark...
...Munich. "I had hoped to get a job of some kind in Italy, but I hadn't set up anything beforehand," she said ruefully. "Then somebody picked my pocket in Rome, and the problem got serious." (Yes, she is safely back in the U.S., thanks to money wired by Papa...
...important element that was missing from Paper Dolls: a strong family unit. The Bloomingdale's-like department store of the title is run by an aging tycoon (Sam Wanamaker) whose children and their spouses vie for power and assorted sex partners. "Positively Byzantine," remarks one family member, after Papa Berrenger has announced plans to retire. "It's going to be fun watching this family fight their way through this." Not as much fun, unfortunately, as it would be if the actors and plot twists did not look so much like mass-produced goods. One exception: Andrea Marcovicci, as a bitchy...