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...only country where that chasm is becoming a nexus. In Italy, Sabina Guzzanti is a self-described buffoon (it has a slightly loftier connotation in Italian) and TV personality. In 2003 she launched a weekly show of political satire called RaiOt - for the network that carried it, RAI Tre, and the English word Riot. The comedy she perpetrated was unexceptional: getting made up as Silvio Berlusconi, Italy?s head of state, and telling jokes about him. But the show was cancelled after one airing, possibly because Berlusconi, a major industrialist, also owns RAI. "One man controls the government, the media...
...Despite the gravitational pull toward uniformity provided by the binding opinions of the European Court of Human Rights, a diverse Continent does not lend itself to a common approach. "It's like trying to nail down a jellyfish," says Vincenzo Zeno-Zencovich, a professor of comparative law at Roma Tre University. "Each country has its own taboos. What applies to Great Britain does not apply to Greece." The old law-school adage holds that hard cases make bad law, and when a country finds certain words upsetting enough to ban them, all the cases are hard. In December, breaking...
...sure she is not recognized by maître d's and waiters, Sheraton never makes reservations in her own name. She also declines to be photographed fullface. "So I don't fight back, except of course in my reviews." But critics, Sheraton believes, whether of food or fashion, movies or books, "are willing to put up with the bad for the privilege of doing what they relish for a living...
...hand-held cameras, on location with no additional props, no soundtrack and no extra lighting. They should be set in the present - no genre films allowed - and the director should not be credited. In March 1995, when Von Trier was invited to Paris' Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe to speak at a celebration of 100 years of cinema, he took to the stage, read out the manifesto, tossed red pamphlets printed with The Vow of Chastity into the audience, and walked off. The Dogme 95 movement was born. A decade later, around 40 Dogme films...
Green Day singer-guitarist, Billie Joe Armstrong, once proclaimed in song, "I'm a smart-ass, but I'm playing dumb," and for many years his performance was seamless. Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tre Cool met in their late teens and displayed natural gifts for propulsive, funny, disposable punk-pop songs about masturbation and alienation. In 1994 Dookie, their first major-label album, sold 10 million copies. Multimillionaires at 22, the members of Green Day settled into a routine of churning out blink-and-they're-over records followed closely by triumphant world tours. They were not quite...