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Friday September 24, 1999      Claude Berri's "Lucie Aubrac" has it all: a tender romance, acute suspense, terrific acting, and a camera style and and score that are beautiful yet understated. Most important, it has an impeccable sense of period and...

In this minor whimsy of a film, two strangers meet during a transportation strike and partake of some stop-and-go romance. Juliette Binoche plays Rose, a petit-bourgeois beautician on the run from an abusive relationship, while a slicked-up, buttoned-down...

WASHINGTON - Just weeks after the angriest rift with a close ally in decades, the United States is quietly backing away from threats to penalize France for its strenuous efforts to block the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Although Secretary of State Colin L....

GETTING THERE Nonstop service from LAX to Paris is available on Air France and Air Tahiti Nui; direct service (no change of planes) on US Airways; connecting service (change of planes) on American, United, Lufthansa, Delta, Continental, Northwest and...

Hilburn worked with Michael Jackson during 1984 and early 1985 on a book Jackson is writing for Doubleday. Michael Jackson's $47.5-million purchase of the Beatles' song collection last month was the climax of 10 months of intense, complicated and...

PARIS -- One sign of the improving mood in Franco-American relations came recently when American Robert J. Fitzpatrick, president of the new Euro Disneyland under construction outside Paris, went to the Elysee Palace office of a senior French official...

Michael Jackson's $47.5-million purchase of the Beatles' song collection last month was the climax of 10 months of intense, complicated and confusing on-again, off-again negotiations. The package--of which the Beatles music was only part of the nearly 4,...