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...Life and times of this bionic man will be made into West-End musical?no wait, that's Lee Majors. Who exactly is this guy? Losers IRA EINHORN Old hippie activist is finally extradited for the murder of his girlfriend. Says a government plot kept him stoned in the Riviera for 20 years INDIA THE CAT Bombay protesters object to President Bush's cat's name. Then argue whether masala chai "tastes great" or is "less filling" KIM MATHERS Eminem's ex faces drug charge after she's nailed on warrant for disturbing peace. With so much in common, these...
...Like the earlier attempts to prosecute former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet, the Milosevic trial further erodes a time-honored tradition of peacefully easing dictators out of power by offering them comfortable retirement on the French Riviera. Would Pinochet or Haiti's "Baby Doc" Duvalier have handed over power if all they had to look forward to was court and prison? Unlikely. But advocates of justice-without-borders and geopolitical imperatives counter by asking whether the prospect of trial and punishment might not have restrained their behavior while in power. As complicated as the precedent set by Milosevic's trial...
...54th annual Riviera bash, which concluded last week, the big do was a Hong Kong film party at the Majestic Hotel. Jackie Chan, Samo Hung, Jet Li, they were all there, and everyone was invited. Except Your Intrepid Reporter - even after begging. So YIR and his comely escort stood in the hotel driveway, watching thousands of lucky people pressed against one another in a subway-rush-hour crush. The only people allowed to join the party were Hong Kong celebrities arriving in limos and whisked into another entrance. Then YIR's escort spotted a familiar face, that of director Peter...
...Hung and Jet Li, flashed their smiles at the most congested soirEe in recent memory. When Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai sat for a Q&A about his career, one of the audience members asking questions was Faye Dunaway, still glamorous 34 years after Bonnie and Clyde. This Riviera fortnight always has enough stardust to dazzle the dourest soul...
...space with the bridge column. A TV critic, no mater how witty, fat and proficient of thumb, will never become a syndicated celebrity. And above all, every May, film critics jet off to Cannes to sample the year's coming wares on the shores of the French Riviera...