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...knew that, sometimes, nothing looks so good on the giant Festival Palais screen as a bad Hollywood movie. In 1992 the Opening Night entry was Basic Instinct, that chicly sleazy sex-and-violence thriller starring Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone and the space between Sharon Stone's legs. U.S. critics had seen the movie months before, and dumped their contempt on it. Yet in the Lumiere Theatre at Cannes, on that 60-ft.-wide canvas, it had the kind of luminosity, confidence and throbbing pulse that no Franco-Polish minimalist masterpiece could match. This, we were reminded, is why audiences...
...Stone's glamour spilled off the screen - her old-fashioned beauty, of course, but also the devouring eyes and grown-up voice, and her evident pleasure in being watched. It was that evening in the Palais (and remember, I'd seen Basic Instinct at a critics' showing in New York) that I became convinced of what I still believe: that Stone is one of the few people in the post-Golden Age era who deserves that venerable epithet "movie star...
...point of cultures. Today, at a time when rival Palestinian factions are gunning each other down, we learn that Gaza's early inhabitants were prosperous, practiced multiculturalists. On show are objects from several empires unearthed during the past two centuries, with some dating back nearly 5,000 years. Egyptian stone scarabs are displayed alongside Greek statues, Byzantine mosaics, Syrian oil lamps, French coins and Roman amphora jugs...
...doesn't always work. Mixing Groban's operatic voice with African rhythm and Spanish guitar feels like several fusions too far. But Kidjo's African dance-hall cover of the Rolling Stones' Gimme Shelter with Joss Stone is as irresistible as the original. And Lonlon, an African folk a cappella adaptation of Bolero, might have pleased even Ravel...
...exonerate himself and his military career, Marine lawyer Captain Randy Stone told an investigating officer at a Camp Pendleton, Calif., hearing that he did not investigate the alleged Marine killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha, a story broken by TIME, because he believed that the troops had engaged in lawful combat. During earlier testimony, a Marine who had interviewed Stone, Colonel John Ewers, lambasted the lawyer's failure to look into the killings but said those actions were not criminal. The investigating officer will now decide if Stone should face a full trial...