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Crane's currency challengers have found a champion in Arizona Republican Representative Jim Kolbe. A free trader who calls the Crane monopoly "un-American," Kolbe has introduced legislation every year for a decade to overturn the laws that he says favor Crane. "First, there's the provision that only companies that are [at least] 90% American-owned can bid," he says. "We don't allow that for anything else, not even defense." The Secret Service insists that money must be produced and printed within the U.S. to maintain security, but the GAO found no reason to bar foreign companies from...
There was plenty of renewable energy around the prospect of an Al-vs.-Hillary smackdown last week. New York magazine's cover story on Gore, written by John Heilemann, carried the headline: THE UN-HILLARY. And while Gore was basking in solar-drenched adulation at Cannes, Clinton was presenting her own energy plan in an hourlong wonkathon at the National Press Club in Washington. As Clinton showed her command of the intricacies of carbon-dioxide sequestration and cellulosic ethanol, it was impossible not to wonder whether the two of them might once again be crowding onto the same turf. Maureen...
...obliged to stay for the whole thing (actually 2hr.35min.). And truth to tell, a few critics who put themselves through the entire ordeal whispered the word materpiece, if only to annoy the rest of us - because for most reviewers, this static film about the Lisbon lower depths was literally un-sit-throughable, at least after the first hour. If Costa does win, expect a chorus of boos to drown out his acceptance speech...
...programmers know that films are also movies. So this year Cannes had a quartet of horror-SF pictures. Two, X-Men The Last Stand and the Taiwanese thriller Silk, showed out of competition in the main selection. Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly played in the official sidebar Un Certain Regard. The fourth film, Bong Joon-ho's The Host was in the independent Directors' Fortnight program...
...their language. This is a big change from the early years; it's said that Eric Rohmer's divinely talky Ma Nuit chez Maud (My Night at Maud's) in 1969 was the first competition film shown with English subtitles. Now all films in the official selection - the competition, Un Certain Regard and the special selections - are shown in English or with English subtitles. In the film market English is even more dominant; the salespeople want to speak their customers' language...