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New-Zealand director Jane Campion will be honoured during this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Campion has been chosen as the recipient of the Carrosse d’Or (Golden Coach) Award given by the French film directors guild, the SRF, according to industry website Deadline.com.
Aside from trying out for the Olympic decathlon, there may be no more enervating enterprise in the U.S.
Mia Wasikowska slips through the lobby of New York City’s Waldorf-Astoria hotel, hat pulled low, scarf wrapped high, face scrubbed clean, a marvel of unadornment. If you hadn’t spent the previous evening at a screening of her new film, Jane Eyre, absorbed in her performance as the original plain Jane, you’d hardly notice her.
“Lions hate circuses” has long been a bumper sticker slogan of the animal rights movement, and Bolivia has heard the message: The left-leaning government of the Andean country recently passed the world’s first legislation prohibiting the use of all animals in circuses.