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...logos plastered on cars and drivers' overalls. In Barcelona in May, for example, Schumacher led the race from beginning to end. Three weeks later he did the same in Nurburgring. And after winning at Silverstone in Britain last week, he figures to take another victory lap at the Grand Prix in Hockenheim, Germany, next Sunday. "It certainly does ruin the suspense," says Mario Andretti, the last American driver to win the F1 world championship, back...
Spurning the flamboyant, womanizing lifestyle associated with many F1 drivers, Schumacher lives quietly in Switzerland with his wife and their two children. He's intense, working out up to four hours a day; last year he won the Monaco Grand Prix hours after learning that his mother had died. Jordan says that by now, none of the established drivers can beat Schumacher: "Psychologically, Michael has got inside their heads...
...Palais to speak their thanks, usually in English, to the jury and its Asiaphile president, Quentin Tarantino. Maggie Cheung accepted the Best Actress scroll with her usual cool poise, while her director and ex-husband Olivier Assayas squirmed in his seat. The Thai auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul solemnly dedicated his Prix du Jury (third place) for Tropical Malady to his recently deceased father. And so it went. Four of the eight award winners at this year's Cannes Film Festival were from East Asia. By the end of the ceremony the only surprise was that the most eagerly anticipated movie, Wong...
...Park Chan Wook's Old Boy. It took the Grand Prix du Jury, or second prize. (Only Michael Moore's anti-Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 finished higher, copping the Palme d'Or.) When Tarantino read out the Old Boy award, he proclaimed that the jury was "delighted" with its choice...
...Value of a 108-carat diamond lost during the Monaco Grand Prix, when the car in which it was embedded as a publicity stunt crashed...