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...Fail: Audiences ignored and critics shrugged at Youth Without Youth, the experimental movie your buddy Francis Coppola made last year. So what? Youth got Francis out of a 10-year dry spell and excited about making movies again. Now he's at work on another. Make your own weird little film with no expectations. When it hits theaters, take a vacation, ignore the weekend grosses and start brainstorming your next movie...
...masses are doing even more. The China Youth Daily newspaper reported that some 200,000 people from all over China have descended on the quake zone, providing food, shelter and medical treatment, their convoys of vehicles sometimes causing traffic jams on the narrow mountain roads of Sichuan province. Private aid takes many forms: beef trucked in from Inner Mongolia, sleeping bags shipped from Shenzhen, building materials from Chongqing, millions of bottles of water and packets of instant noodles. Volunteers are working in areas overlooked by government relief efforts. In the village of Yongan, south of the devastated city of Beichuan...
...says Christian Girard, a 19-year-old high school senior who is the vice-president of SVP's youth section in Geneva and supports the initiative. "Direct democracy has been a Swiss tradition for 150 years and we know how to vote responsibly," he says. "Naturalization must be a political, not an administrative process. And in a political process, people should be the ones to decide...
...Davies has been brilliantly memorializing his Liverpool youth for a quarter century: in The Terence Davies Trilogy of short films, in Distant Voices, Still Lives (the most powerful aesthetic autobiography I know) and The Long Day Dying. His new film has elements of a memoir: of a Catholic boy discovering his love for movies and, later, his love for other men. But this is mainly a biography of a place and time: of its stately old civic monuments and, later, its soulless estates (an expression, Davies says in the narration, of "the British genius for creating the dismal...
...where the press is controlled by the state. Over the past year, Chien was repeatedly questioned about his sources by police "who twisted his reports," the paper said. "(Chien) was not motivated by any personal motive or interest," the paper said. "His motive was completely pure." The Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper said that after the arrest of its reporter it was besieged by a record number of phone calls and e-mails from outraged readers...