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...there's nothing wrong with the camera falling in love with its subject. Star quality is an essential factor in movie mystique. Directors are also free to show a lovely face in slow motion, as you do endlessly with Nevins'. The Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai has built a brilliant career on that technique. You selected Wong's longtime cinematographer, Christopher Doyle, in part because he would know how to work a similarly glorious magic...
...like boy bands: here today, gone tomorrow," he says. "But cider has existed for hundreds of years - we've simply added an enhancement." What's more, says Pratt, "Magners has been carefully positioned by us as anything but fashionable." Perhaps, but the pace of Magners' U.K. growth did slow slightly over the winter. C&C is confident demand will pick up again with the warmer weather, and it expects Magners' share of the total U.K. beer and cider market to more than double to 4% over the next three to four years. In anticipation, the company recently spent $271 million...
While the tennis world has long anticipated Roger Federer's quest for his first title in the French Open (starting May 27) and likely Slam if he finally conquers the slow clay of Roland Garros, it's suddenly Serena, now ranked No. 11, who may steal center court. "It's just amazing what she has done," says the world's No. 5, Jelena Jankovic of Serbia. "When she's on her game, Serena is the best player in the world. It wouldn't surprise me if she won a Grand Slam...
...master miniaturist, a creator of wistful anecdotes featuring, over and over, the same sort of people: fatalistic men and moody women who, for a poignant, painful, precious few moments, connect. He cocoons these beautiful losers in his distinct visual-emotional style. The mix of cigarette smoke and step-printed slow motion, furtive glances and liquored wisdom, lends ordinary anguish an almost majestic glamour...
...Many of the foreign inmates are awaiting repatriation to their home countries, under bilateral prison transfer agreements. But their departure requires the necessary paperwork to be completed by the notoriously slow Venezuelan bureaucracy. "Obviously if you've got people being killed all the time, you want the prison transfer agreement to work," a consular official at one embassy said...