Handicapping the Palme d'Or
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It's almost impossible, but here's a look at two of the Festival favorites
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Les versions allemande, franÃ§aise et nÃ©erlandaise sont dÃ©sormais disponibles. La version italienne sera bientÃ´t accessible. Copernic et son partenaire de dÃ©veloppement Ã©conomique international Contraco
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Travel: Ever wanted to re-enact a scene from your favourite movie? Sean Dodson shows you how and where
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It takes guts to chase  after an Oscar. It also takes serious money, luck, and insider  experience. Fail to land a nomination, and that cash doesn't  magically come back.
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Watch a movie or make a mobile phone call. Soon, in France, you might not be able to do both at once...
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Travel: Competition Send your suggestions, and you could win a luxury break.
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Watch a movie or make a mobile phone call. Soon, in France, you might not be able to do both at once.
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Changes at The Journal: movable deadlines and a new taste for models.
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Both olfactorily and opportunistically.
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How to find the best choices in a crowded market.
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Nine movies are in contention for the foreign-language Academy Award.
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Producers take heart: It just got a little easier to put your hands on an Oscar.
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Ski racing is not just about timing, it's also about figuring out the trade-off between risk and reward. The higher the stakes, the more tempting it is to roll the dice.
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This year's Academy Awards has something it hasn't had in ages: A neck-and-neck race for Best Picture.
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In March 2002, I made a bet with Martin Nisenholtz about the relative importance of weblogs and the New York Times. I was and am a blogger, and Martin worked then, as he does now, for the Times. For the actual terms of the bet, read the piece on the LongNow site, and a story I wrote to announce the bet. A few comments.  1. It seems now is the time to decide who won the bet, if either of us did. 2. The world that I hoped would come about did not. While blogs have broken many stories, they have not, in general, turned into the authoritative sources I hoped they would in 2002. When the blogosphere resembles journalism it's often the tabloid kind.  3. I wouldn't mind losing the bet. That is, I wouldn't mind if the Times fully embraced the web, and I suspect Martin wouldn't mind if blogs rose to the quality of the Times. 4. If the bet had been held a year later, it seems there would be a pretty good chance that Martin would have won the bet because they recently took down the firewall at the Times, allowing search engines to index the full content. In the past, articles would remain visible for a couple of weeks then you'd have to pay money to access them. I believe they have a special deal with Google and other crawlers that allow them to get past the membership wall. For most of 2007 the Times articles were behind the firewall, and were less likely to be pointed to (which is how they rise in rank at Google). 5. It certainly is fun to speculate, but the decision about who won belongs exclusively to the Long Now Foundation. They have to decide who determines what the top stories of 2007 are, and imho they should consult with search experts to determine how to do the queries. Apparently it makes a difference how you do it.  But ultimately it's their decision. 6. Whether Wikipedia has more or less results seems to be a sidebar to the bet, which only talks about blogs and the Times. 7. Another interesting sidebar is rich media. In 2002, before podcasting had taken hold, before YouTube existed, it would have been hard to forsee the story of the South Carolina beauty queen, or the Don't Tase Me Bro guy. Questions about the future are always framed in the context of the past. Did the question Martin and I asked have any value in 2007, or did it just say something about the world of 2002?   Update: Paul Boutin who arranged the bet, apparently in conjunction with Google (I didn't know this) in 2002, weighs in.
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Finite le ferie degli spettatori, exploit 'Chi l'ha visto'
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But keep that movie or game a week too long, and you&#39;ll own it (but can return it, for a fee). By MARK ALBRIGHT, Times Staff Writer.