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Afterward, burn off the calories at one of the many high-octane after-hours spots. A brilliant conversion of a 1930s warehouse, mk-2, http://mk-2.de, is a cutting-edge lounge cum discothèque with a roster of topnotch resident DJs and a dedicated thirtysomething VIP clientele. Over at 3001, www.d-3001.de, five areas, including a massive dance floor, keep the in-crowd contented, while Harpune, www.harpune.com, features a heady mix of deep house and trance refrains for its blissed-out masses...
...Mexican film history. He anchored cowboy comedies, historical-political epics and dozens of vein-popping romantic melodramas. He played virginal student-priests (in El Seminarista -The Seminarian) and rogues who at the crack of dawn rose from a lady's bed and jumped out the window (in Dicen que soy mujeriego -They Call Me a Ladies' Man). The good-hearted heroes he played fought, they cried and, always, they sang...
...consider this scene at the start of the 1949 La Mujer que yo perdí (The Woman I Lost). A pretty young woman (Silvia Pinal, Buñuel's Viridiana), on an evening's stroll with her mother, is accosted by a young man she has rebuffed before. As he persists in his advances, her fiance (Infante) comes by and insists the man apologize. The man, identifying himself as the son of the attorney general, draws a gun. Infante knocks him down, the man's head hits the curb and blood gushes out. A newspaper headline screams: "Pedro Monta...
...blame the machines, either. French and Italian cafes ditched the handmade espresso years ago for automation and don't seem to have suffered ennui because of it. You think Café Flore in Paris would lose its charm because it served automated café au lait? Je pense que no friggin' way. Sit down in Starbucks and enjoy a cup and some conversation? Sure, if you can manage to snag a seat from the WiFi squatters who have set up an office for the price of a latte. (Here's a suggestion: Set up joint outlets with Kinkos...
DIED. Ray Evans, 92, Oscar-winning songwriter whose collaboration with partner Jay Livingston gave rise to Silver Bells, Mona Lisa and Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be); in Los Angeles...