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...aftermath: Jim Simpson's The Guys, a conventionally heartrending meeting of a journalist and a New York City fire captain, and the much more ambitious and provocative 11'09"01: September 11. The conceit is this: 11 directors from five continents each make a film, running 11 min. 9 sec. Some episodes find subtlety, humor, parable in the world's reaction to the event. In Iran (a segment directed by Samira Makhmalbaf), a teacher desperately tries to explain the meaning of the attack to her uncomprehending village school kids. Sean Penn helmed the Manhattan segment in which...
Eleven directors of international repute each made a film intended to be precisely 11 min., 9 sec. and one frame long. Some were poignant (Sean Penn's, on a man living in the shadow of the Towers), some funny (Idrissa Ouedraogo's parable of African boys who spot an Osama bin Laden look-alike and try to cop the $25 million ransom). Several (from England, Bosnia, Egypt and Israel) pointed fingers at the U.S., saying, in effect, other countries have suffered atrocities for decades, so welcome to the club, America. No surprise that the film has opened in Europe...
...founder of Balaji Telefilms, a soap-opera production company, Kapoor, 27, is the queen of Indian TV. Four top shows on India's leading network are Balaji soaps, and ad rates on the highest-rated programs just hit a record $31,000 for 30 sec. Balaji has earned the prestigious Emerging Company of the Year award from the Economic Times of India...
...Germany, the Netherlands and elsewhere mandating employee representation on boards The issue risks becoming a new flashpoint in trade relations between the U.S. and the European Union, already strained by disputes over steel tariffs and tax breaks for American exporters. E.U. Commissioner Frits Bolkestein complained in a letter to sec chairman Harvey L. Pitt on Aug. 29 that "the implementation of some of the provisions of the Act might have undesirable extraterritorial consequences or they might create unnecessary difficulties for European companies." Among his concerns: a new U.S. body that will oversee auditing firms will regulate non-U.S. auditors...