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...Support eroded first among older, traditional conservatives repelled by Sarkozy's private life: his unabashed relish for wealth and famous friends; his public anguish over and finally divorce from his wife Cécilia; and his courtship of and, less than four months later, marriage to former top model Carla Bruni. But the latest polls show the leading cause of voter complaint to be Sarkozy's failure to deliver on the reforms he hyped to the heavens during his first six months in office...
...audience - Daniel Day-Lewis, Keira Knightley, Anthony Hopkins, Kate Hudson, Ridley Scott, Ian McKellen - just not enough of them. After the first three rows, the faces became unfamiliar. Many of the high-profile nominees - George, Cate, Tommy Lee - were no-shows, and it quickly became clear that many famous attendees were there either to present an award or pick one up. Everybody had a job to do; nobody had just come for the party...
...WERE ON OUR WAY, we hoped, to freedom," said British pilot Bertram (Jimmy) James of his exploits as a prisoner of war and a perennially frustrated escape artist. "That wasn't quite the case." After taking part in the most famous attempt of World War II--the mass exit from Poland's Stalag Luft III, depicted in the 1963 film The Great Escape-- James survived a labor camp and went on to work in Britain's diplomatic service. James...
...violence. It was also the era of Arthur Penn, a television and film director best known for such classics as “Bonnie and Clyde.” Penn appeared at the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) last weekend for screenings of several of his works, ranging from the famous (“The Chase,” “Mickey One”) to the obscure (“The Highest,” a short featured in the 1972 Olympics) to a live television drama (“The Tears of My Sister”). After...
...function of Boston being (relatively) cosmopolitan, but the intermixture also says something important about what’s happening in music today. Musical purity died a long time ago, and the mutual exclusivity of genres is a relic of an age when nonchalance was still believable, and being famous was synonymous with having enviable class and dignity. It is my firm belief, however, that culture is not dead. New forms of expression are always waiting to be discovered. Call me an optimist; I’ll call you something far worse. I’m just hopeful for what?...