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...HDTV altogether and instead cram a combination of several standard-definition channels and even some pay-TV programs into the digital pipe. Infuriated public watchdogs see this as sleight of hand. "They get all this spectrum for free, and nobody else had a chance to bid on it," says Solveig Bernstein, a telecommunications expert with the Cato Institute. "It's ridiculous...
...Bring back the old stars and add a big new one. Bruno Ganz and Otto Sander are back as Damiel and Cassiel, the angels come to Earth. Peter Falk returns as an ex-angel, and Solveig Dommartin as the trapeze artist who'll meet any heavenly body halfway. But here's a casting coup: Mikhail Gorbachev as himself. He sits at a desk, pondering the meaning of life and the purpose of the universe. "I'm sure that a secure world can't be built on blood, only on harmony," opines the former Soviet leader, now available for smaller roles...
...film's disenchanted young heroine, Claire (Solveig Dommartin), couldn't care less. Adrift on the highways between Venice and Paris with the loot from a bank robbery in the front seat of her car, Claire gives a ride to fellow traveller Sam Farber (William Hurt). She falls in love with him during their day-long trip to the French capitol. Only after she has dropped Farber off at his hotel does she realize that he has stolen her money...
...World is worth seeing twice--attention is often divided between the flawless and inventive performances of Dommartin, Hurt, and Neill and the whimsical subtlety of the sets. The screen-play, though written by Peter Carey and Wim Wenders, is based on an original idea by Wenders and Solveig Dommartin...
...readers, unable to warm themselves at the long-ago communal campfire of art. A visiting Hollywood actor (Peter Falk) teaches a new friend some primal joys, simple things: "To smoke, have coffee. And if you do it together, it's fantastic!" In a traveling circus, a pretty trapeze artist (Solveig Dommartin) chafes at the gaudy "chicken wings" she must wear in her act. As she stares in her mirror and considers the pleasures men take in looking at her, the invisible Damiel caresses her shoulder...