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...that sequence Steven Soderbergh, working territory far removed from his sex, lies, and videotape, efficiently reveals the sweet blend of imagination and practicality that animates his principal character and the sympathetic yet unsentimental approach with which he will recount his subsequent adventures...
...middle of the demographic bulge. If I can keep doing films that will appeal to my generation, someday I can do films about 80-year-old hippies. And these pictures could be hits, even if the theaters have to be equipped with hearing aids and Braille subtitles." What a sweet ambition: to be the auteur of the baby tombers...
That made 12 suicides among the targets of Italy's 18-month investigation into fraud, kickbacks and political payoffs. Gardini's name surfaced over and over, as investigators probed a sweet deal in which his firm's share of a joint venture, called Enimont, with the state energy company was bought out for $2.5 billion, vastly more than it was worth. Last week investigators questioning two former Gardini executives reportedly learned that more than $90 million in payoffs may have landed in the pockets of leading politicians, including two former Prime Ministers, who denied the accusations...
...difference a year makes: Gardini reached the peak of his fame only last spring, when his racing yacht, Il Moro di Venezia, defied sailing experts and reached the finals in the America's Cup. Il Moro's success cast Gardini as the personification of Italian style, an image especially sweet for a man whose childhood on a farm in Ravenna earned him the lifelong nickname "il contadino," the peasant...
...many Brazilians had no sympathy for the victims. "Everyone is making them out to be heroes," says taxi driver Joao Mendes, "but they were not sweet flowers." Citizens calling in to local talk shows applauded the massacre. Says Alexandre Coelho Reis, 23, who works in Rio: "Many of these 13-year-old kids have killed. They deserve...