Word: parise
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jefferson in Paris brings this bit of vulgar wisdom back to mind. Regrettably so, for it is the work of that redoubtable trio consisting of producer Ismail Merchant, director James Ivory and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. With films like Howards End and Remains of the Day, they have, almost alone...
The problem with this kind of filmmaking has always been caution. And that's what is wrong with Jefferson in Paris. It's as if everyone was just a little too much in tasteful awe of its subject, who is played rather stolidly by Nick Nolte. They are afraid to...
In a series of humorous stories, Merchant described his movie-making career and the growth of his partnership with James Ivory. The two have collaborated on such movies as "Howard's End," "Remains of the Day" and the recently released "Jefferson in Paris."
"Whenever religion is involved, terrorists kill more people,'' says Bruce Hoffman, director of the Center for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at Scotland's University of St. Andrews. Last December a group of Algerian Islamists hijacked an Air France Airbus A300, which they planned to blow up over...
Cuban leader Fidel Castro, in a new bid for international acceptance, made a round of political and social visits in Europe. Occasionally swapping his trademark fatigues for a dark blue suit and spotted tie, he criticized "blind and savage market laws" at the world-poverty summit in Copenhagen, told UNESCO...