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...couple hundred journalists milled this morning at Carlton Beach, an outdoor restaurant with a pier that juts into the Mediterranean. They looked across the Croisette, the wide oceanside strip that is the Cannes Film Festival's own chic boulevard, and up to the top of the seven-story Carlton Hotel, a white building with wedding-cake ornamentation. There, in a bulbous bee costume, stood Jerry Seinfeld, being attached to a guy wire by several burly technicians. He was about to "fly" about a hundred yards onto the pier, risking life and reputation to promote his animated film Bee Movie. "Anything...
...decision to shoot part of the movie in Cuba made him the subject of a federal investigation, which may be precisely the p.r. gold he was after. Still, the film will surely get people talking, which is just what Moore wants - and just what he did in a wide-ranging conversation with TIME...
...because drivers had to put up with cramped passenger compartments and anemic 50-h.p. engines. That began to change in 1998, when government restrictions on maximum minicar size (owners are eligible for discounts in annual car taxes worth at least $200) increased to 3.3 m long and 1.5 m wide. The bump in dimensions gave manufacturers creative space to build better, roomier models-most now have four doors-and alleviated consumer concerns about safety and comfort. "I feel perfectly safe in a minicar," says Ayako Yamamoto, a 57-year-old housewife in Nagasaki prefecture whose family owns...
True, armed soldiers patrol Bogotá's wide, modern streets, and you'd be wise to leave your jewelry in the hotel before you head out - but who cares when all that glittery stuff awaits you in the museum...
Last fall, just six years after Dick Cheney left the Dallas office of Halliburton for Washington, Democrats swept every county-wide contested race. And on May 12, Dallas sent an openly gay candidate into next month's mayoral runoff. If city councilman Ed Oakley defeats former Turner Construction CEO Tom Leppert, Dallas will become the first big U.S. city to elect a gay mayor. Dallas would join Berlin and Paris as major cities led by gays. Wait--Dallas...