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...press conference following the film, Tarantino was asked if this was a "Jewish revenge fantasy," and he replied, "Well, that's not the section of the video store I'd put it in." But Eli Roth, director of the Hostel horror movies and one of Tarantino's Basterds, said the notion of Jews getting even with Hitler was "kosher porn. It's something I dreamed since...
...Tarantino, who finished his script last July, rushed the movie into and through production because he wanted it to be ready for this multilingual Babel of a festival. At the press conference, he said he loved Cannes because, here, "cinema matters. It's important. It means something here. All the world's film press are here. There's something about all of them seeing it at the same time. The cat is out of the bag for the Planet Earth. I am not an American. I make movies for the Planet Earth. And Cannes is about that...
...people's lives are open to the kind of scrutiny that used to be reserved for celebrities. The concept of personal boundaries has been destroyed. Many companies track the content of their workers' emails and whether they spend hours each day online interacting with their friends on Facebook. The press recently reported that Google (GOOG) has created software that can predict whether its employees will quit. The next step will be that the search company will forecast which people it will fire. That should save its human resources staff a great deal of time and anguish. Google may even find...
...cases, Boston Latin School students were let out five minutes early due to concerns about swine flu and two strains of seasonal flu. Out of 2400 students who attend the 7-12 grade school, over 260 of them called in sick yesterday with flu-like symptoms, according to a press release from the office of Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino which was released yesterday afternoon. According to a letter sent out by Boston Public Schools’ superintendent, Carol R. Johnson, the school was closed to “prevent new infections and avoid unnecessary illness?...
Leone said at a press conference yesterday afternoon that police were “still developing facts” about why Cosby was inside Kirkland House, and that it was unclear how precisely Cosby gained access to the building. Intent and motive for the shooting also remain a mystery, he said...