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...Three other awards went to Asian artists. The Grand Jury Prize (second place) was given to Park Chan-wook, director of the vigorous, violent Korean melodrama ?Old Boy.? This was precisely the sort of genre film the Festival has previously eschewed, and which Tarantino has championed. In announcing the prize, he said with a big smile, ?The Jury is DELIGHTED to award....? Yuya Yagira, the 14-year-old star of Hirokazu Kore-eda?s poignant Japanese drama ?Nobody Knows,? won the Best Actor prize. Best Actress went to Hong Kong?s Maggie Cheung for her role as a drug addict...
...French essay in angst, Agnès Jaoui's Comme une Image (Look at Me), displayed a tender wisdom toward its characters. Some popular genres - the thriller, the martial-arts epic, Japanese anime - made rare appearances at Cannes. Asia's strong showing included a mainstream Korean revenge-a-thon (Park Chan-wook's Old Boy), a Hong Kong media melodrama (Johnnie To's Breaking News) with an elaborate five-minute tracking shot of a shootout, and a gorgeous animated feature (Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence) from the company that did the smashing anime segment of Quentin...
...officer was sent to Park Drive in Boston in response to the attempted robbery of a Harvard-affiliate who was the victim of an attempted robbery. The incident occured in the vicinity of Park Drive and Jersey Street in the early morning hours of May 3. The officer urged the victim to contact the Boston Police Department to file a report...
...officer arrested Joseph Santillo, 44, who is homeless, for possession of marijuana in John F. Kennedy Park...
...back to his past. So, over lunch in a Sydney restaurant, he describes the Adelaide backyard where he and his brothers contested their fierce "Tests" - played always, at the insistence of their father, with a hard ball. Other times, with local boys, they'd set up stumps at the park around the corner or at the beach, where they chose between two types of pitch - fast (the hard sand) or a subcontinental turner (the soft stuff). These games could go for hours, like sessions of the various solo bat-and-ball activities that young Greg would settle for sometimes...