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...blithe spirit of instant perishability, I offer some hints on candidates for the top prize, or Palme d'Or, or Golden Palm (as in palm trees, which line the beachfront in this Riviera resort), at the 58th Cannes Film Festival, shortly drawing to a happy, exhausted close...
Today marks the opening of the 58th Cannes Film Festival, the world's largest annual convention, art exhibit and international debating society. For 32 of those years, we have made our pilgrimage to this Riviera redoubt to hobnob with stars and directors, renew old friendships, sample the superb wines and cuisine under cloudless Cote d'Azur skies and, when there's time, see movies...
Phil South relaxes on the deck as twilight descends on the French Riviera. The 22-year-old technician from Chelmsford, England, and his girlfriend, Gillian Fell, 26, are aboard easyCruiseOne, a no-frills, budget liner on its maiden voyage from Nice, the start of a tour of the French and Italian coasts that stretches between St. Tropez and Portofino. "There's no way we could have gone on a cruise [before easyCruise]," says South. "This has opened barriers for people like us." Great; just as long as nobody expects luxury at low prices. Forget deck quoits, pink gins and white...
...remote burial ground of Garhi Khuda Baksh, 200 miles northeast of Karachi, hundreds of Pakistanis gathered to pay their respects to Shahnawaz Bhutto, 27, son of the late Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was found dead under mysterious circumstances on the French Riviera last month. Thousands of others were trying to reach the area in the expectation that the funeral would be held this week. But Pakistan's President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq was taking no chances that the outpouring of sympathy for the Bhutto family would turn into a huge and possibly unmanageable political demonstration. Zia conveyed...
Industry experts predict another Easy success. Traditional cruise lines, they say, won't be threatened unless Hadji-Ioannou adds bigger boats to the Riviera lines. The Greek-Cypriot entrepreneur last week said he was talking with the world's largest cruise operator, Carnival Corp., in hopes of finding a strategic partner...