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...tomato, I say toh-mah-toh, let's call the whole thing off..." Indeed, if China and the U.S. spoke the same language, the job of U.S. and Chinese diplomats negotiating the text of a letter from Washington that would allow them to end the Hainan standoff would have been a lot more difficult. And, of course, Beijing's monopoly of control over the Chinese media may have proved extremely useful in developing traction for a diplomatic solution in which one side needed to convince its public that it had received an apology, while the other side had to gesture...
...celluloid. Balding, short of stature and, lately, getting a little paunchy around the waist, Luchini is nobody's idea of a classic matinee idol. But he has something almost no other actor possesses these days: a flawless elocution, a way of incarnating the spoken word that turns a text into a lyrical, almost sensual form of expression. In a country like France, proud and respectful of its rich literary tradition, Luchini has had phenomenal success with his one-man recitations of works by authors ranging from Lafontaine and Victor Hugo to Baudelaire and Louis-Ferdinand Céline...
...work with my public to find the right note," he says. "I'm like someone who is tuning an instrument. If they help me, we arrive at the truth. If they don't, I get angry." Nor does his interplay with the public end with the final line of text. On a good night, a sweat-drenched Luchini will return after the curtain calls and launch into a so-called prolongation - an improvised monologue in which he extols Céline's genius, chides people for coughing during his performance, mimics President Jacques Chirac (who attended one of the first...
...During our lunchtime interview, he artfully modulates his voice, grabs my arm, grimaces, shouts out bits of text. At one point, loudly complaining that the typical French film dialogue revolves around "screwing or not screwing," he notices four well-dressed women gawking at him from the next table. He jumps to his feet and introduces himself, then takes a seat with the ladies, bums a cigarette, orders a drink and spends a half-hour charming the delighted coterie and taking down their phone numbers. When he returns to resume the interview, he mutters, "You know, the libido is a frightening...
...contrast, the text of Gagnon’s letter, though conciliatory, remains cautious...