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...works went on tour. The Grenville L. Winthrop Collection opened in Lyon, France in March, and after touring London and New York City it will return to Cambridge early next year. The show includes more than 200 paintings, drawings and sculptures by such notable artists as Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh, normally displayed as part of the Fogg’s showings...
Anne Alexander Vincent, a psychological-development consultant and life coach with a practice in Nashville, Tenn., has noticed an increase in the number of pre-retiree and retiree clients seeking help in defining an activities agenda. "I think people are so ready for something new," she says. "If they thought they had to do another five or 10 years of what they had done, they simply don't have the energy for it." Once clients embrace the possibility of doing something new, she relies on assessment tools, including standard psychological tests, to help clarify what they are most likely...
...theorists might have seen sinister connections between its star, Nicole Kidman, and jury member Meg Ryan, who stars later this year in the Kidman-produced In the Cut. Best Goofy Diversion from a Dreadful Slate of Films: The mystery of the purloined penis. An American indie movie, Vincent Gallo's stupefyingly inept The Brown Bunny, let loose such a torrent of critical contumely that the director-writer-star-cameraman-editor apologized publicly for his film. Bunny's only selling point was the promise of an explicit scene of fellatio between Gallo and Chloë Sevigny. One hour and 47 minutes...
...fans by getting shut out at award time. But another Danish auteur did have reason to be there and be pleased: Christoffer Boe, director of Reconstruction, which won the Camera d'Or for best first feature. As he accepted his prize, Boe made this plea into the ether: "Vincent Gallo, don't give up! We need to fight conventional filmmaking." Someone needs to make, and fight for, better films. Maybe next year: Cannes 2004 has already been dubbed the Atonement Festival. But if there's a lesson from Cannes 2003, it's that bad films are more fun to talk...
...calling and e-mailing commanders, the U.S. tried to convince Iraq's military that it was in their interest not to put up a fight. "As we had access to leaders, we spoke with them and said, 'You need to make a choice here,'" says U.S. Army Brigadier General Vincent Brooks, chief spokesman for the U.S. Central Command in Doha, Qatar. "Those that made the choices will have an opportunity to live another day. Those who did not did not survive the operations...