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...Space Odyssey.” Such inside jokes are no surprise—director Brian Cook was a prime Kubrick admirer, serving as assistant director, co-producer, and actor in Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut.” Malkovich and the myriad references are somewhat entertaining, but not enough so to rescue the film from its overwhelming mediocrity. The opening scene is deceptively promising: a jolly parody of “A Clockwork Orange” in both music and action. Hopes stay high with several scenes of Conway swindling naïves into buying...
...show was obscure for an American audience,” Lajer-Burcharth says. “You look for 1970s experimental video art in Poland, and there you have it.”The exhibit collects works solicited from local artists in each host city, which explains its somewhat quirky contents. As a result of the collection’s organic growth process, its contents do not reflect a “Who’s Who” of the video art world. Nam June Paik, for instance, is nowhere to be found.But in spite of the esoteric subject...
...kiss. It's an indulgence, a passion, then an obsession. In other words, it's the ultimate French confection. Paris is divided into two camps: those who hold that the best mini macarons come from Ladurée, and those that swear by Pierre Hermé. This is a somewhat academic debate, since Hermé worked at Ladurée before opening his own shops in Paris and Tokyo...
...Scholar and a Gentleman James Graff's profile of François Bayrou [March 26], although most interesting, seemed to give an unfair and somewhat distorted impression of the French presidential candidate's intellectual background. I am writing here as an academic, not a politician. Bayrou is a farmer's son, for sure, and a gentleman farmer, probably. But while he is no product of a French administrative or political grande école, he is a doctor of literature. He is, therefore, quite an erudite individual. No nitwit! And an excellent, learned writer in his own right. Françoise...
...global hunt for talent at the youngest of ages. The US is hardly innocent in this quest—one need only think of pre-pubescent Olympic gymnasts, the Freddy Adu craze, and 15-year old swimming phenoms—but both college football and college basketball have somewhat resisted the urge to uncover the Fountain of Youth.Globally, the best soccer players are hunted out well before they are old enough to worry about going to college. Brazil provides the best example, with its surfeit of young talent that crops up every four years, but even England reveals its newly...