Archive: May 13, 2007 - May 19, 2007
Cannes in Briefs
Dangerously, I have acquired a French vocabulary of nearly one hundred words (mostly nouns, involving obscure cheeses, but also several verbs for I want, I need, I sorry). On the flight over the Atlantic, I put in my time with the Lonely Planet French Phrase Book. One of my favorites,...
By Maura McCarthy | May 18, 2007; 1:19 PM ET | Comments (2)
Norah Jones Gets Many Kisses
Sat down for a bubble water with singer Norah Jones. She's just as ripe and fresh and petite and round as a cherry tomato, with these eyebrows, like mysterious black lines on a map to a place you want to go. She stars in "My Blueberry Nights," the Wong Kar...
By Bill Booth | May 18, 2007; 10:56 AM ET | Email a Comment
U2N3D.
Louder! It really should be a lot louder. Crank the V, bro. I mean, my wife plays "Zoo Station" louder than this, like, at Sunday brunch (called church in our house). That's what I was thinking as I caught the dawn press screening of the new "U2 3D" concert film,...
By Bill Booth | May 18, 2007; 4:26 AM ET | Email a Comment
The Hunt and Pecking Order
As the organizers of the Festival de Cannes are fond of reminding us, there are 4000 representatives of the international press in attendance. That is one scary number. In part, because the French have developed a system, a color, to assign each member of the hack pack, a credential...
By Bill Booth | May 17, 2007; 12:22 PM ET | Email a Comment
My 'Blueberry' Pancakes
So I squeezed into the nearly midnight screening of Wong Kar Wai's "My Blueberry Nights." The Grand Theatre Lumiere was packed. But was it the lateness of the hour? The collective jet lagishness of the audience? Perhaps. Yet I spied many a head a nodding. The film? Lusciously shot. Wong...
By Bill Booth | May 17, 2007; 11:01 AM ET | Email a Comment
Jerry Seinfeld Can Fly.
Jeffy Seinfeld creates a buzz with his costumed flight. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) Look! It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a billionaire comedian in a fuzzy bee suit jumping (with cables) from the top of the Hotel Carlton. Seriously. The big press yada yada of the morning is the...
By Bill Booth | May 17, 2007; 9:00 AM ET | Comments (6)
Arrival. Cannes. Smells.
"Blueberry" stars Jude Law and Norah Jones. (Peter Kramer - Getty Images) So... It's LAX to Atlanta to Milan. Cab to the train station (ouch, 79 euros), then the Trenitalia through Genova to the sea, and 49 hours later -- pop! -- we're in Cannes. We smell like middle-seat...
By Bill Booth | May 16, 2007; 5:08 PM ET | Comments (2)
