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...time. Jean Hixson was a former W.A.S.P. who taught third-graders in Akron, Ohio, under the sobriquet "the supersonic schoolmarm." Jan and Marion Dietrich were identical twins from California, dead ringers for Natalie Wood. Janey Hart was the wife of a U.S. Senator. Four of them had logged more flying hours than any of the seven men chosen two years earlier as Mercury astronauts. Jerrie Cobb, the first to be tested, was a shy, restless woman who had worked ferrying planes to obscure corners of South America. She held the world record for nonstop long-distance flying and the world...
...focus toward the end, but for the first hour Makhmalbaf locates the heartache and the desperation without ever raising her voice. She did that only on closing night, when Afternoon won the Jury Prize (third place). "My movie is about a woman who dreams of becoming a President," she declared. "But I personally don't have such a dream ... because we are living in a world in which Mr. George W. Bush is the most famous President...
...archbishop, Law—who had moved from Mexico to Colombia to the Virgin Islands during his childhood—took stances on many international policy issues, calling for debt relief for third world countries and an end to the U.S. embargo on trade with Cuba...
...brutal occupation, Afghanistan is rich in ruins. The film never raises its voice, but the 23-year-old Makhmalbaf did - on closing night, when At Five in the Afternoon won the Jury Prize (third place). "My movie is about a woman who dreams to become a president," she declared. "But I personally don't have such a dream ... because we are living in a world in which Mr. George W. Bush is the most famous President." Wait a minute, you say. Didn't Cannes use to be the place to see elegant, middle-brow European films and buxom topless starlets...
...parents went to the same church as mine, and my father got his signature when Band gave the congregation a slide show on his exploits in the high mountains. (In 1954 Band and another legendary British climber, Joe Brown, were the first men to summit Kanchenjunga, the world's third highest peak, and technically a much tougher climb than Everest.) Now retired, Band still leads treks in the Himalayas. When I spoke to him last week, I asked him to describe his colleagues in the Everest party. His choice of adjectives was illuminating and a little archaic. Hunt, he said...