 | Cannes Film Festival
abuzz as dark tales shine THE Cannes film festival is
buzzing this year with a string of
hit movies in the official lineup.
The unseasonably cold, wet
weather has done little to dampen
spirits among the famously picky critics
and journalists on the French Riviera to
interview...
|
|
| | Pet chips
have become big business,
but do they work? |  BONNIE is missing" blared the
email subject line. A 2-yearold
female pit bull weighing 55
pounds, with gray and white
markings, she was last seen on
the corner of Maple Avenue and Myrtle
Street in my community, wearing a chain
collar. "I am asking for your help in finding
my lost dog," her owner pleaded.
I immediately felt a pang of anxiety.
And then one of confusion. Exactly what
was I supposed to do with this information?
It appeared on my smartphone
because I recently got a new puppy and,
while Riley was under the ether being
spayed, the veterinarian´s assistant recommended
inserting a chip for identification
purposes.
My previous dog´s... | | | Taboos, tourism and
Cannes Film Fest |  THE Austrian director Ulrich
Seidl makes a habit of blurring
boundaries: his work encompasses
fiction (Dog Days) and
nonfiction (Animal Love), and
he typically works with nonprofessional
actors using documentary-like settings and
improvisatory techniques. But there is little
middle ground when it comes to the reception
of his films. Seidl tends to be condemned
as a misanthrope who goes to
unseemly lengths to prove the depths of
human misery or hailed as a maestro of discomfort
whose taste for confrontation
masks a seriousness of purpose and a measure
of compassion.
Last at the festival here with
Import/Export (2007), a bleak tale of lost
souls making their ... | | | Raveena Tandon
plans a sabbatical |
 AT a time when other actresses are making
comebacks, Raveena Tandon is
planning her sabbatical. "I want to help
my daughter Rasha, with her homework
and accompany my son Ranbir
Vardhan, to his swimming classes," she smiles
and says. So is her tryst with tinsel town over?
"Not really. I have completed two films, but will
now be choosy about my roles," she says.
The actress admits that things are different in
the industry now. "Bollywood is engrossed in
the world of social networking
sites. It was
not the same when
I joined the
industry. Now
people go
back to their
vanity vans
i m m e d i -
ately after
a shot is
o v e r .
Earlier,
t h e
u n i t
used to be like a family. There were... | |
|
|
|
