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...Palestinian Ninja babe beats the enemy with maneuvers worthy of Hong Kong martial madame Michelle Yeoh (a member of this year's Jury). At the closing ceremony, Suleiman won a Jury prize: third place. Other awards went to Cannes familiars in good form: a Grand Prix (second place) to Aki Kaurismaki's The Man Without a Past - a tale of an amnesiac among the unemployed and one of the deadpan Finn's finest films, but more sweet than startling. The film's leading lady, Kati Outinen, took Best Actress. Olivier Gourmet was named Best Actor for his role...
...largely inscrutable—exuberant and tangled webs of bleeps, squelches and drums occasionally verging on 180 beat-per-minute gabba tempos. This was performance, not participatory, music. The audience could do nothing but stand and let the waves of noise wash over them as Takemura and his labelmate Aki Tsuyoko tweaked the controls...
Walk through Fantasy's four floors of office space in downtown Honolulu--a city chosen for its almost equidistance between Hollywood and Tokyo--and you'll see sleep-deprived animators getting strands of our heroine Aki's hair to waft just so, or watching endless video loops of voice talents James Woods, Alec Baldwin, Ming-Na and Ving Rhames trying to make their characters' lips move in exactly the same...
...high-tech companies in central Japan. "Most of the money goes to improving an existing product, not to basic research." Even when an inventor comes up with a hot product, the country's strong ethic of subordination of individuals to groups holds sway. Take the case of Aki Komikado, an unassuming sales-and-marketing employee who invented the Tamagotchi digital pet in 1996. The toy craze earned her employer, Bandai, $350 million, but Komikado didn't get a pay raise or a big bonus, and it doesn't seem to bother her. "Why should I get lots of money?" says...
Vermont skiers Trond Nystad, Aki Partanen and Camut Nystad (Twin brother of Trond) finished one, two, three in the men's classical...