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...Besides Van Sant's, there were four other U.S. films in the Competition - Joel and Ethan Coen's No Country for Old Men, Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, David Fincher's Zodiac and James Gray's We Own the Night - and none of them received a prize. Readers in the States may be wondering if all four films were less laudable than the nine that won something...
...Van Sant, who's made good films (Drugstore Cowboy, To Die For) and bad ones (Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Finding Forrester), got a prize for another miss: Paranoid Park, the muddled, nearly incoherent tale of a teen skateboarder haunted by a thoughtless killing. He received the 60th Anniversary Prize, Frears announced, "for his career, and because he made a lovely film...
...soirées, frequented by brainiacs and swells like publisher Bennett Cerf and arts advocate Kitty Carlisle, and quiz shows celebrated academics. Twenty-One scandalized the nation--and isn't it quaint to think of Americans being scandalized over a game show?--because people wanted to believe in intellectual Charles Van Doren, who was fed answers. Jeopardy! and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire follow that tradition, quizzing contestants on literature and science, things classy people are supposed to know about. Even Wheel of Fortune is, at least, about language skills...
...PLAYED MANY roles in Hollywood, but Elizabeth Taylor's latest drama played out in a U.S. court of appeals, which ruled that the actress, an avid art collector, could keep a Vincent van Gogh painting. In 2004 a family sued Taylor, claiming that View of the Asylum and Chapel at Saint-Rémy had been confiscated by the Nazis from their ancestor, who fled Germany in 1939. Taylor insisted the work had passed through two Jewish art dealers without any sign of coercion before she paid $257,000 for it at a 1963 Sotheby's auction...
...commitment to promoting intercultural and racial understanding did not stop it from pulling sponsorship of a 2006 panel featuring Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the former Dutch parliamentarian and human rights activist whose 2004 film, "Submission," detailing mistreatment of Muslim women in the Netherlands, triggered the murder of its director, Theo Van Gogh. Despite the fact that Hirsi Ali was set to appear with several other panelists, including Ahmed Mansour, a leading scholar and defender of Islam, many students, including members of the Harvard Islamic Society, objected to the event because they found Hirsi Ali’s politics offensive. Fearful...