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...Cannes Film Festival means to be a celebration of international cinema--a reminder that movies are made in other places besides Hollywood. Yet American-star wattage usually puts the rest of the world in the dark. At last week's festival, jury member Sharon Stone was photographed a record 1,633,458 times (unofficial count); Jack Nicholson, promoting his film About Schmidt, searched for a TV where he could watch his beloved Lakers game. Best of all, MARTIN SCORSESE showed 20 tantalizing minutes of clips from his long-delayed epic Gangs of New York in the company of stars LEONARDO...
...quite. Yeoh was outshone by Hollywood's Sharon Stone, just recovered from a brain hemorrhage and still the paparazzi's favorite playmate. Devdas, a three-hour romantic phantasmagoria, got little indulgence from the international critics. Though they sat obediently through dozens of mopey minimalist movies, and one with a brutal nine-minute rape scene, they had a low threshold of pain for a pretty film with pretty people singing of love and loss; exactly one critic (this one) was there at the end. As for Chihwaseon, one insider announced a few hours before the awards ceremony that the jury...
...Israeli checkpoints. A balloon with Yasser Arafat's face on it floats above the soldiers; a Palestinian ninja babe beats the enemy with her Yeoh-worthy maneuvers. With its smart humor, as dry as the Negev, this is a film that might raise a chuckle even from Ariel Sharon. Give irony a chance...
...Sharon's plan appears to be to wear down the resistance of Palestinian militants until they're prepared to accept Israel's terms. But many Israelis have expressed surprise and alarm at how soon after "Defensive Shield" Palestinian attacks have resumed. Washington, at least formally, is opposed to Israel seeking a military solution, and the Bush administration's game plan, in concert with moderates, is to restore conditions for dialogue by getting the PA's security structures to clamp down hard on prospective terrorists. But right now ordinary Palestinians are not taking the PA's security structures any more seriously...
...much as Washington and its Arab allies would like to use the planned regional peace conference in June to create momentum toward some form of long-term peace agreement, the situation on the ground reinforces hard-line positions. For Sharon, the ongoing security crisis is a reason to postpone serious discussion over a long-term peace agreement. For the militants on the Palestinian side, the ongoing Israeli operations in Area A cities strip away what they see as the illusions of Oslo and reinforce a belief among Palestinians that armed struggle is the only effective response to the occupation...