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Back when Mexico was still a colony of Madrid, Monterrey was frontier--much like America's Wild West, more than 200 years later--settled by a rugged cast of characters, including unmoored Jews and some in trouble with the Spanish crown, whose present-day descendants are fiercely proud of their heritage and the modern metropolis they developed. Monterrey is the most important business center in the country after Mexico City. It's as if San Antonio, Texas, went on to become Pittsburgh, Pa., skipping the Rust Belt phase. This city of nearly 4 million, often confused by Americans with...
...Harvard team, however, still has a good chance of earning a wild-card berth to the world finals, depending on the outcomes of the other regional competitions...
...career (and also maybe because somehow it doesn't seem as feelthy coming from a gay guy). The Oscar-winning writer-director of Talk to Her and All About My Mother cast Cruz as the embodiment of motherhood in a movie about three generations of women surviving the wild winds of his home turf, La Mancha, Spain--winds that blow in fires, death and some superfluous men. Volver is Spanish for return. Fittingly, with the film, Almodóvar has reclaimed the Madrid-born Cruz from the lost- property department of blond and bland Hollywood, where she has lived...
...Films had two corporate hallmarks. One was great taste in choosing films - or perhaps the company's choice of films shaped the tastes of me and my fellow cinephiles. The other was a sprightly and pliable imagination in showcasing movies. The success Janus had with The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries helped it buy the rights to more than a dozen older and newer Bergman films. But instead of releasing them all separately, Janus packaged the lot in a Bergman retrospective. Theaters would book the program for a two- or three-week run, showing double features for a few days...
Every collector has a story. Mine begins in the stone age. No, not that Stone Age. My personal stone age. For a couple of years in grade school I collected minerals. Granite, pyrite, rose quartz - all of them were hunted down in the wild or purchased at hobby shops, glued onto cardboard supports and lovingly mounted in "presentation boxes," which were presented to no one because no one else was really that interested. But I was. By the time I reached the age of 10, what I didn't know about feldspar was not worth knowing...