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...ahead." Montand also savored the interplay with Co-Star Gérard Depardieu, "one of the best actors in the world," and the delights of the literate script. "The dialogue is so rich ...with the kinds of sentences that, mmm, you can taste because it's so close to the truth, so far from artifice," he says. "This film shows the grandeur of France, but the real France, not the pretentious, self-satisfied one." Which is not a bad way to describe Montand himself...
...viewed as a social satire about the professional classes: its self-deluding hero, an architect planning high-rise public housing, seeks to tear down as unlivable a neighborhood of row houses very much like his own. The play's structure--overlapping reminiscences and flashbacks--suggests the unattainability of objective truth and the aching burden of memory. Frayn does not fault the re viewers. "I know the play rather well," he says, "yet I found it very difficult to give a brief description for a collection of my work...
...associates. Throughout her 79 years, especially in the memoirs she wrote during her final two decades, Hellman delighted in presenting herself as tough, combative and above all principled. Many critics, among them former friends, accused her of having a higher regard for her reputation than for the literal truth: revisionists have presented detailed arguments that Hellman distorted or invented stories in her autobiographies, most notably in the section of Pentimento that was adapted as the movie Julia. Political enemies regarded her as an all but unrepentant Communist, although she denied having formally belonged to the party...
Harsh words, but again containing some truth. In the best of times, property and casualty insurers, the kind that issue liability policies, rarely make much money on underwriting: the premiums collected have exceeded claims paid in only two of the past ten years. Most of their profits come from investing the premiums they collect. Five years ago, when the prime rate, keystone of the U.S. interest-rate structure, hit an incredible high of 21˝%, such investments paid off very, very well...
Although Frank was denied a pardon in 1983, this time, the Georgia pardons and paroles board accepted the arguments of attorneys representing Jewish organizations that Frank had been denied justice. "The state failed to protect Frank or guarantee him an appeal," said Pardons Board Chairman Wayne Snow. "The truth is, we were interested in doing the right thing." CONGRESS A Vote to Ban Lie Detectors...