Paris Chat: Sydney Confidential
Terrorist fears foil Bandits THE debate continues as to why Bandits — Cate Blanchett’s latest film — is underperforming at the US box office.Earlier this week Confidential reported that Hollywood studio executives were putting it down to the terrorism fears gripping America.And in an interview with the Toronto Sun, Bandits director Barry Levinson revealed his disappointment in the posters and TV spots devised by the marketers at the MGM-UA studio, saying he felt the film…
Paris Chat: 1994 BEST AND BRIGHTEST
Brillant, bold and benevolent
For these college students, there’s far more to life than classes. They’re working on early detection of cancer and causes of Alzheimer’s disease. They’re fighting AIDS, child abuse, domestic violence, pain.They’ve helped the poor get a clinic in Ecuador, education in Philadelphia, homes in Baltimore. They’ve interviewed blacks in South Africa, slum-dwellers in Jamaica, former heads of state in Paris….
Paris Chat: IN PERSON
GENERAL OUTCRY. (Stage direction in Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot.”) The first word from Paris on the Mike Nichols/Steve Martin/Robin Williams Lincoln Center production of “Waiting for Godot” was that Beckett was not amused. In a letter to Jack Garfein, Beckett was reported to have said, “I deplore the liberties taken in N.Y. `Godot,’ with text and on stage.” Well, you may think – especially if…
Paris Chat: Assessing British satire’s hour
Well over a century ago now, Oscar Wilde said that the Americans and the British were two peoples separated by a common language, and his crack (I won’t say bon mot – definitely wrong language) continues to be invoked to this day. Still, as with most pithy generalizations, there are limits to its applicability, and this past March 27 provided an example when the British comedian Dudley Moore and Milton Berle, the American one, died on the same day. Humphrey…
