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...Before the fact, the critics had guessed. And, mostly, the critics were wrong. Leave it to Tarantino and his Riviera Band Apart to offer prizes that surprised, delighted and outraged...
...angry left-wing books sell millions of copies in the U.S. and around the globe, and his Oscar-winning documentary Bowling for Columbine earned $58 million worldwide. Last week the fellow from Flint, Michigan, who's usually seen in a scruffy beard and duck-hunter couture, was prowling the Riviera in a tuxedo jacket and baggy black trousers, and this time the game he was aiming at was George W. Bush. Cannes was primed for Moore's latest movie Molotov cocktail, Fahrenheit 9/11, long before it won the coveted Palme D'Or award on Saturday evening. The film's first...
...producers scramble to find an item for the weekly Almanac; they highlight an event that occurred today, many years ago, whether the founding of the Boy Scouts of America, or the opening of the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, or the invention of chewing gum. Often the deja-view has ominous glints. To compare the U.S. post-war adventure in Iraq with our occupation of Japan, the producers aired part of a 1946 documentary, sternly narrated by Arthur Kennedy: ?Here?s where we clinch our victory or muff it.? That sounded like a caveat on April 13 of last year...
...Yokohama Country & Athletic Club, for instance, are entitled to stay at Melbourne's venerable Royal Automobile Club of Victoria, where a double room and breakfast cost a mere $106 (a savings of more than $70 on typical city center-hotel rates). If you belong to the Beijing Riviera Country Club, then you can rest your head at the swanky Raffles Town Club in Singapore, where a suite with its own pool starts from $185. Meanwhile, members of the Tokyo British Club can rent low rise-bungalow accommodation at the leafy United Services Recreation Club in Hong Kong from just...
...Hollywood, they say that movies are diversions from life's anxiety, rancor and tragedy. In the rest of the world, films are often a reflection of those troubles, a mirror into the dark soul of humanity. So each May, 35,000 movie folk convene in a Riviera paradise, where they place a stethoscope to mankind's heart and announce, this guy is sick...