Word: french
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world's largest film festival, held every May in Cannes on the French Riviera, also doubles as a more refined Academy Awards. Past winners of the Palme d'Or--Cannes' top prize--have been sex, lies and videotape; Pulp Fiction and Apocalypse Now, all of which were almost completely snubbed when it was time to give out little golden statues in America. It should come as no surprise that Rosetta, this year's controversial winner of the Palm, is being released in the US with little fanfare, and probably to a limited run. It's a shame because films like...
...FRENCH-TASTIC CIRCUS...
...raft in an ocean; a shark fin begins to swim around him and he panics; he suddenly calms down, picks up a fishing pole and hooks the fin, pulling it up to reveal a crescent moon which he gleefully hangs in the sky). It's also a decidedly French experience--it's incomparable to anything that I've ever seen in American theater (the only comparison I can make is to 1995's The Fifth Element--and that, of course, was made by a French director...
...Disney loyal fan base? Stay tuned. We'll have a full report for you coming soon... Pick up the new Women in Hollywood special Premiere Magazine issue. It has some fascinating interviews with the best female actresses in the business and a compelling biography of Maria Schneider, the infamous French actress whose career self-destructed with Last Tango in Paris And what wins my award for worst movie of the year? Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo. But I haven't seen...
...characteristic I note on my list of consultant stereotypes, along with "overachiever" and "talks in bullet-points." Wang, the "business analyst" and most junior member of the team, chose the restaurant and puts the blame on Zagat's when Tom, the "project director" makes fun of the fancy French decor...