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...After weeks of lobbying and protests by foreign journalists at official obstructionism, a revamped government press operation announced it was taking a first group of correspondents to Grozny. I was on the trip, along with colleagues from the U.S., Canada, Japan, Italy and France. We were to travel with Nikolai Koshman, the Russian government's plenipotentiary representative for Chechnya. On Monday, several hours late, we left from Vnukovo Airport on a government flight...
FAMILY SHORTFALL A new World Health Organization survey of Europe, Canada and the U.S. reveals that less than two-thirds of American adolescent students live with both parents--placing the U.S. next to last, above only Greenland, among the countries studied. U.S. youths are less likely than their foreign peers to eat well and exercise frequently. But the good news is that by age 15, U.S. youngsters rank in the middle on drinking and are less likely to smoke or watch television four hours or more...
...Egoyan released his first feature film, Next of Kin, which received funding from both the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council. The complex story deals with a disillusioned young man who, while undergoing video therapy with his parents, sees a tape of an Armenian family wracked with guilt over giving up their son to a foster home years ago. The protagonist, Peter, craves a new role in life, so he presents himself to the family as their long-lost son, an act that leads to dark visions concerning cultural displacement and the line between role-playing and reality...
...Egoyan's experience shooting Felicia's Journey, released last fall, was unique in that it is the only film he has shot outside of Canada. The filmmaker originally planned to relocate the story to Canada, as he did with The Sweet Hereafter (originally set in New York), but decided to keep it in Ireland due to the insistence of the book's author, William Trevor...
...pray that I'll be able to contain my temper when 'NSync takes the stage to perform their Best Original Song nominee, "Music of My Heart"--they'll perform instead of Madonna, whose "Beautiful Stranger" managed to miss the final cut. The good news? We'll also see "Blame Canada," performed on stage since the South Park tune somehow made it to the nominees list. South Park set to a full orchestra? That's the difference between good cultural catastrophe and bad cultural catastrophe...