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...Neither failures nor successes, Broken Flowers, The King and Manderlay cemented the notion of this year's festival as one of mostly middling films from better-than-middling directors. Only the Cronenberg suggested that Cannes 2005 might be ready to forge a robust identity in which filmmakers escaped the glories of their past...
...average 50% of its pages with news-agency content, down from 80% 10 years ago. At 20 Minutes, wires account for between 20% and 30%. "A year and a half ago, a politician wouldn't give interviews to free newspapers," says Pecquerie. "This is no longer the case." A robust media environment means that there should always be high-quality publications for those willing to pay for them, even if only on a small scale. But will traditional publishers survive long enough to find a way to compete with free papers? Read the message at the bottom of the London...
...signature hero and villain back to their boyhoods--Indy with the Young Indiana Jones TV series, Darth Vader with three Star Wars episodes. But the megamovie template for a coming-of-age fantasy saga is the 2002 Spider-Man, which earned $800 million worldwide and spawned its own robust franchise. If the strategy works, it feeds Hollywood's itch to be endlessly self-derivative. First comes the remake--or, in mogul-speak, the reimagining--then the sequels. If it doesn't work, the result is The Hulk or Catwoman, two pricey flops for which their studios should issue not sequels...
...other side of Sydney, at Beverly Hills, principal Debbie Sutton, a robust, straight-talking 47-year-old, has noticed with alarm the same trend. "Years ago," she says, "parents used to think that their image in society was measured by their house or their car. Now, I think, it's whether their kids get into a selective high school." Recently, Beverly Hills surveyed its 420 pupils and found that less than a quarter played sport outside of school. "I get really concerned about the number of our kids who don't have lives," Sutton says. Adds assistant principal and Year...
...trying to burnish his image. "Nobody really knows who is in charge," says Allan Hoffenblum, a Republican strategist in Los Angeles. "His followers want to rally around the flag, but they can't find the flagpole." The Governor's spokesman, Rob Stutzman, says the press has been "mischaracterizing robust discussion as a split...