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...writing a cookbook series and has authored a children’s book, The Cat Who Couldn’t Meow, which he says follows “the saga of our blue chartreux,” one of the seven foundling cats his wife has collected over the years. In conjunction with his writing, he has founded his own publishing imprint, Zzyzzyx Press...
...Jean-Pierre Dardennes' The Son, a touching drama about a troubled teenager and the carpenter whose son he killed. But after all the politico-ethnic tsimmes and tsouris, the Jury (headed by U.S. director David Lynch) gave its top award, the Palme d'Or, to Roman Polanski's Holocaust saga The Pianist, an epic adaptation of the 1946 memoir by Jewish musician and Warsaw Ghetto survivor Wladyslaw Szpilman. Cannes this year was good for the Jews, and not bad for world cinema. It is always dangerous to find political significance in movies. Films are not news bulletins; they are dreams...
...believe it's fair to criticize his approach to making the Star Wars films. He has the ability to make exciting movies, and if it takes years of solitude between making them, that's fine with me. Titanic can't compare in quality and ingenuity with the Star Wars saga. REBECCA SAKSEFSKI Louisville...
...Will people stand for it?" Not only will we stand for it, it's what we've been waiting for all along. We want the darkness. It's what makes the story truly interesting, and it's the reason The Empire Strikes Back is my favorite movie in the saga thus far. A happy ending may please the crowd, but a dark ending will make people think. There are plenty of saccharin-sweet movies out there. I want something I have to wrap my mind around. MELISSA MORTH Houston...
...been charged). For a leader who promised to end Korea's culture of corruption, watching offspring turn the Blue House into an atm is debilitating. President Kim has offered five public apologies for his sons' antics and recently resigned from the ruling Millennium Democratic Party, which is praying the saga won't cloud December presidential elections. Koreans, though, are getting used to this. A son of former President Kim Young Sam was sentenced to two years in prison for corruption. Kim the elder can only look at his wayward scions and wonder where it all went wrong, while Koreans look...