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...Fortnight had a winner with The Host, which imagines a sea monster, Nessie mixed with Godzilla, rising from the Han River to terrorize the good people of Seoul. Variety's Todd McCarthy called it the surprise hit of the Festival, saying it "provoked widespread comparison to Jaws and Alien in its scare quotient and filmmaking expertise." So many buyers were turned away from packed early screenings that more had to be scheduled...
...Smithfield markets via the ultramodern Millennium Bridge that spans the Thames. Norman Foster, the bridge's architect, plans to lead the way. PETER ACKROYD'S THAMES On the same bridge - the first to be built in London in more than 100 years - bone up on the history of the river and the city it slices at a neat little exhibition put together by London biographer Peter Ackroyd. Its layout mirrors the capital's: displays on the bridge's east side map the dark, grimy, industrial face; cross to the west side for the regal and religious. TALKS Head to Southwark...
...Cannes 2006 has shown some movies that oppose the prevailing trend and try to encompass a lot, everything, too much. One film was Summer Palace, from the Chinese director Lou Ye, whose Suzhou River was an international hit six years ago. In Summer Palace he wants to summarize the yearning for emancipation among China's youth in the '80s and '90s. The centerpiece is the Tiananmen Square demonstrations of 1989, the portrayal of which should keep the film suppressed in its home country for quite some time...
...nails done, she had her sister do her makeup, and she even took a trip to the spray-tanning parlor. Later that evening, she and her boyfriend, Chris Raffo, took pictures at his parents' house. But instead of joining the rest of her classmates at Pearl River Central High School, in Carriere, Miss., for their last big hurrah, Lott and Raffo dined in an Italian restaurant and drove to New Orleans for a quiet evening in the French Quarter. Lott, 18, had desperately wanted to go to her prom, but not without Raffo, 21, a Marine who had secured...
...Soldiers on the border? That won't stop me. I'll swim the river and jump the wall. I'm going to arrive in the United States." ANTONIO AURIEL, Honduran migrant, on the Bush Administration's plan to send National Guard troops to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border...