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...through a green apple, then flosses his teeth and flirts with a makeup artist - all while philosophizing about his "craft," noting the absence of reality in an actor's life and lamenting the homesickness that can hit, even here in sunny Malta, where he's filming Troy - Wolfgang Petersen's adaptation of the Iliad. Mid-floss, Bloom pauses, cocks his head, smiles and says: "But I'm 26. I'm in the prime of my life. What do I have to complain about?" Not much. No star is rising faster than his. Of course the boy from Canterbury, England...
...icon of escape, Wolfgang Mattheuer's Die Flucht des Sisyphos (The Flight of Sisyphus), from 1972, is unmistakable. A worker is suspended in mid-stride, fleeing the path of the stone he has been pushing uphill; he's both dodging the plummeting boulder and heading for an idyllic valley. But here's the twist: when he painted it, Mattheuer was an avowed communist coddled by East German apparatchiks, yet the work is an obvious protest at the condition of life for ordinary folk in the G.D.R. - not the sort of thing one expects a state-supported artist to have produced...
...year, whereas in France workers get 30 days, not to mention another 11 public holidays. In Germany it's 24 days plus up to 15 public or religious holidays, while in Spain the combined total is 34 days. "We've undoubtedly reached the limit," said German Economic Minister Wolfgang Clement in June. "Those who compare our calendar of public holidays with those of other countries may well start to ruminate." Not many have ruminated, and few are foregoing their getaways. "Holiday trips are a regular consumer good, which is sacrificed only under extreme conditions," says Peter Aderholt, secretary...
...companies from U.S. lawsuits relating to the Nazi era, the government in 2000 made a deal with Washington that involved setting up a €5 billion fund to pay outstanding Holocaust-related slave-labor claims in exchange for legal immunity from restitution demands. Indeed, the German ambassador in Washington, Wolfgang Ischinger, in January wrote to the New Jersey judge who is considering Principe's suit in the U.S., urging him to dismiss that case. It should, according to the ambassador, be subsumed by the 2000 agreement. Principe's lawyers filed an angry rebuttal, saying the ambassador's letter "inexcusably" failed...
...jour. "I just hope they slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly discover that over the next 10 years." It may be too late for a gradual buildup. He has already made an impression on Hollywood. A featured role in "Black Hawk Down" led to "The Hulk." Now he is shooting Wolfgang Petersen's "Troy", in which he plays Hector to Brad Pitt's Achilles - and that role could make Bana next year's June pinup as well as this year...