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...resulting in a US-bound brain drain, a Europe/New York City-bound arts drain, and, more depressing for a father-to-be, a "dream drain": a pervasive acceptance that a creative and fulfilled life in a human-friendly environment lies only in the Paris of Am?lie, the Rome of Audrey Hepburn's Holiday and the Canada or Hawaii of Japan Travel Bureau brochures. An economy gnawed by deflation produces a climate where xenophobia heats up, not cools down. Education should propagate multiculturalism but instead fosters cookie-cutter conformity in a marathon sprint to brand-name universities which offer a woefully...
...partners to offer apologies to each other and seek forgiveness for the hurt they have inflicted. "The church is always present during a death, but here we are with a divorce, an overwhelmingly painful thing, and the church hides its head in the sand," says the Rev. Jeanne Audrey Powers, 69, a retired Methodist minister who co-wrote a paper in 1976 examining Christian divorce rituals...
Think, Karan Johar says, of "a Hollywood release starring Sean Connery, Tom Cruise and Leonardo DiCaprio." And then add Audrey Hepburn, Julia Roberts and Kate Hudson. That's what the 29-year-old director aimed for with Kabhie Khushi Kabhie Gham (Sometimes There's Joy, Sometimes Sorrow), which features three generations of India's brightest movie stars in one of Bollywood's most expensive productions ever. In an industry that churns out some 500 films a year, few motion pictures have attracted as much positive prerelease buzz. "This is our Harry Potter," says Amit Khanna, president of the All India...
...AMELIE FROM MONTMARTRE A shy girl with a runaway imagination (Audrey Tautou) forces magic on all those in her Paris neighborhood. Jean-Pierre Jeunet's scurrying narrative and cinematic gamesmanship (a style that could be called faux Truffaut) may at times weary viewers used to Hollywood's burlier, spell-it-all-out mode. But give me, any day, a film that offers a groaning banquet table of invention and enchantment--and a showcase for world-class beguiler Tautou...
...from Montmartre A shy girl with a runaway imagination (Audrey Tautou) forces magic on all those in her Paris neighborhood. Jean-Pierre Jeunet's scurrying narrative and cinematic gamesmanship (a style that could be called faux Truffaut) may at times weary viewers used to Hollywood's burlier, spell-it-all-out mode. But give me, any day, a film that offers a groaning banquet table of invention and enchantment - and a showcase for world-class beguiler Tautou...