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Jerry Lewis' character owns a carnivalesque Cadillac dealership. It's been a while since Lewis last hammed it up in a French film, but he obviously still thinks his behavior appropriate and funny. He even gets to call his new bride, Minnie (Paulina Porizkova), his "polish cupcake." The cast cannot muffle their laughs. They practically wink at the camera to show they are having a good time...
...broad swipes of the brush and suggest an unease that is close to violence. The man is on the very edge of his seat, his arm cocked at a peculiar rhetorical angle, his hand on his thigh. We have seen this pose before. It is that of Rembrandt's Polish Rider: the mysterious young man setting out through the dark landscape on a bony horse. And indeed, the head of that horse materializes in the seat of the carriage. Through the train window, we see a landscape. It is not Rembrandt's dark pastoral background. It is bathed in smeary...
...Nails: Polish is not required for females, Farrell explains, "but one time a woman came in and she'd matched her nail polish to her blouse. I thought it was so neat! I mean, she must have been a pretty together person...
SEEN & HEARD If this is Monday, Esther Grossi, 58, must be in blue, or green, or orange. The new Brazilian Congresswoman is always color coordinated. Hair, dress, shoes, nail polish: they all match, and she chooses a new hue whenever she gets the urge. With a Ph.D. in education, Grossi says her wardrobe reflects her teaching theories: have the courage to change...
...despite their solemnity, the observances marking the Jan. 27 anniversary stirred old tensions between Jews and non-Jews. Ceremonies were boycotted, accusations made. Jewish leaders protested the Polish government's initial refusal to include the Jewish prayer of mourning, the Kaddish, in the main memorial ceremony. Polish officials, unyielding, dismissed the complaints as reflecting the ``personal ambition'' of individual Jewish leaders. Some Jews refused to attend the Polish ceremonies; others organized instead a Jewish observance a day earlier, on Thursday. At one point Jewish and Polish demonstrators even clashed, shouting and shoving within sight of the camp's guard towers...