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...story of the beleaguered broadcast television networks were turned into a telenovela, the plot might go something like this: a rich, handsome man loses everything he holds dear (ratings) after his glamorous wife (the fickle American viewer) forsakes him for the sexy new men in the neighborhood (cable, TiVo, video games--she gets around). He discovers the secret to rejuvenation in his own backyard, eventually winning back true love and regaining his lost fortune...
OSAMA BIN LADEN, on an unauthenticated videotape, denying that self-confessed terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui had a role in the 9/11 plot...
There's a plot of sorts: the time is a few years hence, and the public-housing ghettos, petri dishes for the car-burning riots that traumatized Paris last fall, have been turned into official ghettos, requiring a pass to enter or leave and ruled by gangs. A guy named Leďto (David Belle) runs afoul of one of them, and his sister is abducted and enslaved by its comically malevolent leader (Bibi Naceri). Meanwhile, a WMD has gone missing somewhere in B13, and a cop named Damien (Cyril Raffaelli) makes common cause with Leďto to retrieve...
...less like a hard-core film, more like a musical. There are songs throughout, though Mitchell didn't write them, and the production numbers have a geometrical elegance and absurdity that suggests a porno Busby Berkeley. And when the movie finally ends (it has more tie-up-the-plot scenes than The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King), everybody's back at the salon, singing the anthemic...
...premiered in Cannes, France on Wednesday. We have been treated to delightful stories of Christians planning boycotts, disruptions of screenings, and even hunger strikes. Right now, there is a protest being staged in Boston Commons over it. Apparently the protesters are taking offense to the fact that the plot claims that Jesus married Mary Magdelene and had kids. I am a Roman Catholic. I was an alter boy. I play the organ regularly for church services. I go to mass every Sunday. And I find nothing offensive about “The Da Vinci Code.” I remember...