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...place. Shot nearly two years ago and financed by the now-defunct New Line Cinema, this moony love story connected with female audiences in an unusually crowded marketplace for femme films. Four of the top 10 films were romances, as couples could also choose the love-of-food bio-pic Julie & Julia, in fourth place; Katherine Heigl's The Ugly Truth, in eighth; and the she-loves-me-not rom-com (500) Days of Summer, in tenth. Kids could see G-Force (fifth), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (seventh) and the Disney-released Ponyo (ninth). (Check out TIME...
...best places on earth to join the star-gazing fraternity is a glass-and-concrete aerie perched on the roof of the French Pyrenees: views from the Pic du Midi are so good that NASA used it to map the moon's surface for the Apollo landings. (See pictures of the Apollo astronauts then...
...Pic du Midi can be eerie in colder months, when freezing mists swirl around the domes and antennas, but on clear nights, when the skies are blazing with stars, it is as close to heaven on earth as astronomers can imagine. Galileo would have loved...
Overnight stays at the Pic du Midi, with dinner and breakfast, are priced at around $280 per person, or roughly $420 per couple. See www.picdumidi.com for more...
...Alongside her highly contrasted menu ("Crisp and soft, sweet and acidulated, light and intense"), Pic serves the legendary crayfish au gratin and bass with caviar - the dishes created by her grandfather André and father Jacques that first helped win Maison Pic three-star status. "Flavors are such an important part of our memory," she explains with feeling. "This is the way forward - to know the best from before, but to continue to find my own creative culinary path." Find out more at www.brp.ch...