Word: prix
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...Winners EVEL KNIEVEL Elderly daredevil to defy death again. Instead of jumping buses, he'll strap rockets to his walker and try to jump the buffet line at Sizzler GARY KASPAROV Chess master beats 15-year-old, wins Moscow Grand Prix. Great, but was it necessary to spike the king and do the Icky Shuffle on the board? BRUCE ARENA U.S. coach's team beats Portugal. 280 million Americans are still trying to figure out why they don't just pick up the ball and run with it Losers NICHOLAS TSE Hunky Canto-pop star charged with perverting justice...
...jury that was expected to reward eccentricity and innovation (because it was headed by iconoclastic American auteur David Lynch) gave the Palme d'Or to Roman Polanski's The Pianist, a conventional, if sharply drawn, epic about a Jew surviving the Warsaw Ghetto. Second place, the Grand Prix, went to Aki Kaurismaki's The Man Without a Past?one of the deadpan-comic Finn's finest films, but more sweet than startling. And Im's thanks-for-coming prize was the only laurel Asia received. The one competing Chinese film, Jia Zhangke's Unknown Pleasures, got nothing. As for Hong...
...military checkpoint, and a Palestinian Ninja babe beats the enemy with maneuvers worthy of Hong Kong martial madame Michelle Yeoh (a member of this year's Jury). At the closing ceremony, Suleiman won a Jury prize: third place. Other awards went to Cannes familiars in good form: a Grand Prix (second place) to Aki Kaurismaki's The Man Without a Past - a tale of an amnesiac among the unemployed and one of the deadpan Finn's finest films, but more sweet than startling. The film's leading lady, Kati Outinen, took Best Actress. Olivier Gourmet was named Best Actor...
Meanwhile, the road show rolls on to Dubai, where FIDE's World Chess Grand Prix kicks off April 2. Of course, the top three active players won't be there; Kasparov, Kramnik and Indian grandmaster Viswanathan Anand will be at an independent tournament in Kazakhstan. "You've almost got a situation like in boxing," says Seirawan with a sigh. "Speaking as a member of the chess world, it's extremely undignified...
...SPORTS AUTHORITIES Can We Play Too? Who was conspicuously absent at preparations for last weekend's Malaysian Grand Prix? The fledgling Phoenix racing team, which was barred from participating by FIA, Formula One's ruling body. FIA told Phoenix, which came into being after purchasing certain assets from the now-defunct Prost team for a reported $3.5 million, that its entry was invalid because the group had not bought the "right to compete." The cost for Phoenix to qualify in time for the next Formula One season? $48 million. No such participatory problems for Mike Tyson. In spite...