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Paris Can Wait
Written and directed by Eleanor Coppola, Paris Can Wait is the story of a woman who travels to Cannes with her producer husband as she decides to go to Paris with another traveler where a relationship ensues. The film is a genre-bender that blends the romantic comedy with the road movie as it plays into a woman wanting to escape from her husband's busy life in order to enjoy life on her own with another traveler. Starring Diane Lane, Arnaud Viard, and Alec Baldwin. Paris Can Wait is a delightful and charming film from Eleanor Coppola.
The film is a simple road story about a film producer's wife who decides to go to Paris rather than fly to Budapest from Cannes for a meeting while his partner offers to driver her to Paris from Cannes. It's a film that doesn't have much of a premise where this woman is on a road trip with a man she barely knows as he would make detours into various places in France including Lyon. Eleanor Coppola's screenplay follows three days in the life of Anne (Diane Lane) who is on vacation at Cannes with her producer husband Michael (Alec Baldwin) during its film festival as he is dealing with all sorts of problems and has to leave to Budapest. Offering to drive Anne to Paris is Michael's producing partner Jacques (Arnaud Viard) as he knows about the places to go to where Anne finds herself feasting on all sorts of food and go to various places during the trip. Though Anne at first is more concerned about getting to Paris, she does eventually embrace the things she sees as she would take pictures of the trip while getting to know Jacques despite his flirtatious behavior.
Coppola's direction is simple in terms of the compositions she creates as it's more about the journey from Cannes to Paris and through the many landmarks and locations throughout the country including the city of Lyon. Coppola's usage of the wide and medium shots of the locations play into Anne's look into her surroundings as her original intention was to fly but was unable to due to an ear infection she received. Yet, Coppola would also infuse elements of simple compositions in the medium shots and close-ups to play into the interaction between Anne and Jacques as well as the places they go to. There are some unique visuals that Coppola would create as it relates to not just the growing friendship between the two but also hinting elements of romance though there's reasons for them not to be together. Even as they do share some of their own stories of sadness yet find some comfort through the amount of food they eat and the wine they drink. Overall, Coppola crafts a splendid and compelling film about a road trip through France.
Cinematographer Crystal Fournier does excellent work with the film's colorful cinematography to capture the natural look of the many exterior locations of France for the scenes in the day with some low-key scenes at night for some of the scenes at the restaurants they go to. Editor Glen Scantlebury does nice work with the editing as it does have bits of style in the jump-cuts and dissolves to play into the scenes on the road with some straightforward cutting for the drama and humor. Production designer Anne Siebel and set decorator Christelle Maisonneuve do terrific work with the look of the hotel rooms as well as a few places such as Anne and Michael's apartment in Paris.
Costume designer Milena Canonero does fantastic work with the costume as it is largely straightforward with a few designer-like dresses that Anne wears as well as a few other characters in the film. Sound designer Richard Beggs does superb work with the sound in capturing the atmosphere of people at Cannes as well as the quieter moments in the film for the locations involving trees and rivers. The film's music by Laura Karpman is amazing for its jazz-like score that play into the serenity of France while the soundtrack features bits of classical music from Erik Satie and contemporary music from the band Phoenix.
The film's wonderful cast include some notable small roles including a cameo from Aurore Clement as a concierge at Anne and Michael's apartment, Eleanor Lambert as a picture of Anne and Michael's daughter, and Elise Tielrooy as a friend of Jacques in Martine who runs a film museum in Lyon. Alec Baldwin is superb as Anne's husband Michael as a film producer who is dealing with the chaos of a film he's producing and other projects as he has a hard time trying to find time for himself. Arnaud Viard is brilliant as Jacques as Michael's producing partner who offers Anne to take her to Paris as he shows her the many wonders of the country while being a flirtatious man as it's a charming and fun performance from Viard. Finally, there's Diane Lane in a radiant performance as Anne as a film producer's wife that is eager to go to Paris where she deals with an ear infection forcing her to go on the road where she copes with her own problems as she becomes fascinated by her surroundings and the food she eats as it's just an intoxicating and charismatic performance from Lane.
Paris Can Wait is a marvelous film from Eleanor Coppola that features an incredible performance from Diane Lane. Along with its gorgeous visuals, mesmerizing locations, and sumptuous images of food and wine. The film is an offbeat road movie of sorts with elements of the romantic comedy all playing into a woman discovering the wonders of France outside of Paris. In the end, Paris Can Wait is a remarkable film from Eleanor Coppola.
Labels: alec baldwin, arnaud viard, aurore clement, diane lane, eleanor coppola
Not familiar with this one, but now I'm curious about it. And pardon my ignorance, but is Eleanor related to the other famous Coppolas?
@Wendell-Yes, in fact she's Francis Ford Coppola's wife. Roman and Sofia's mother and Nicholas Cage's aunt. She's directed making-of docs for her husband and children with many of the footage of the making of Apocalypse Now being what she's most famous for.
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Legislators in Concord are about to add another layer to the already challenging cost of doing business in New Hampshire by abandoning the last steps of modest reductions of the state's two major business taxes.
In 2015, the business profits tax was 8.5 percent. The business enterprise tax was 0.75 percent. The state's corporate taxes were among the highest in the country. Combined with one of the nation's highest energy costs, a limited labor market and high housing costs, legislators will be making it more difficult to attract new companies and retain those already doing business in the state.
Recognizing the economy was improving and wanting to stimulate further growth, the Democratic governor and Republican Legislature at the time agreed to reduce business tax rates in small steps over several years.
For the taxable period ending in 2016, the BPT went down to 8.2 percent. For 2018, it went down to 7.9 percent, and for taxable year 2019 the rate is 7.7 percent. The BET also went from 0.75 percent to 0.72 percent, then 0.675 percent, and to .60 percent in taxable year 2019.
were not attained, the rate reductions would be reset.
The final tax reductions are scheduled for 2021, when the BPT rate will be 7.5 percent and the BET 0.5 percent. However, there is a move at the State House to squash this tax relief. House Bill 623, which passed in the House, 200-141, and now goes to the Finance Committee for further debate, would "freeze" these tax rates at the 2018 level. However, since we're already in 2019, it's not a freeze but a tax hike.
A similar bill in the Senate, Senate Bill 301, would also raise business taxes to these levels. A third bill, SB 135, takes a slightly different approach. Like the other two bills, it rolls back business tax rates to the 2018 level, but instead of freezing them at those rates, the bill suspends the final two business tax reductions for two years.
One could infer that reversing agreed-upon tax rates must be the result of some fiscal calamity. Ironically, business tax revenues are not down; they're up. New Hampshire has a very large surplus in business tax revenue, even with the BPT and BET reductions (or perhaps because of them). State revenue reports show that even with the lower rates, New Hampshire collected nearly $114 million more in business tax revenue than anticipated last fiscal year. After the first seven months of this fiscal year, the state is already $143 million over projections. In fact, total revenue exceeding projections since FY 2016 is $406 million.
If the tax receipts are still flowing in even stronger than before, why is the Legislature seeking to go back on its word to businesses? Perhaps a clue lies in the way proponents talk about the rate reduction.
More than one policy leader has characterized them as "tax cuts for large out-of-state corporations." Notwithstanding the fact that "out-of-state corporations" — like BAE Systems, Liberty Mutual Insurance, Whelen Engineering and hundreds of others — are some of the most attractive employers in the state, seeking to position tax relief as solely going to large employers to the exclusion of our small businesses is disingenuous. By raising business tax rates, hundreds of small businesses up and down every Main Street in New Hampshire will also be harmed.
Some are also dismissive of the over-performance of business tax revenue, claiming it's a one-time bump from recent federal tax reform. While those cuts probably had some impact, New Hampshire business tax revenues have been exceeding projections since 2016, long before the federal cuts were signed into law.
In his recent budget address, Governor Sununu said, "It is irresponsible governance for the legislature to ping-pong core tax policies every two years." We agree. The state made a promise to businesses. The state ought to keep it.
Brien Murphy is vice president of sales at Boyce Highlands, Concord.


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The cast of Sideways (largest to smallest): Miles Raymond sniffing his wine while plugging his ear, Jack Cole, broken nose and clearly in disgrace…let's face it, anyone wearing a bandage and a bedspread is clearly up to no good; Maya Randall the waitress and Stephanie, who had beaten up Jack with her motorcycle helmet but she's got a good reason to. What's the fifth doll? Why it's a bottle of Belle Glos wine, which is not featured in the film, but a representation of the buyer's husband's favorite inebriant.
I totally believe that when the Great Organizer of the Universe hands you a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, you better grab it and run with it. That's exactly what my friend and former colleague Dan Zalkus did when Glenfiddich came a-knockin'. He was an artist in residence at the Glenfiddich Distillery in Scotland for a few months, doing nothing but knocking back endless shots of whiskeys and drawing. The fruits of his labor resulted in a show at the distillery AND a wonderful picture book of the daily going ons there.
Flipping through this book reminds me of my own trips to Scotland oh so many years ago. Although I'm not a strict whiskey drinker, I do recall ordering a number of them there since my coat wasn't doing sufficient enough a job keeping me warm while looking for the wee Nessie at Inverness.
Dan's able to capture the movements of the distillery workers with his impeccable style by showing up every day with his charcoal pencil and drawing board. It's not a bad way to spend three months of your life, is it?
When I got his book in the mail, it went right up in a place of honor…right next to our very own Glenfiddich bottle! This is one book that should not be shelved!
For someone who's obsessed with food and miniatures and miniature foods, Re-ment is a godsend. Well, not really, since collecting it can burn a serious hole in one's pocket. I was able to amass a serious collection a few years back and am now the proud owner of many hard-to-find and discontinued sets. Unfortunately, I have collected so much that it required multiple shipments for me to transport it all to Oz from the US (my parents simply gave me this look when I suggested that they send it to me bi-monthly), so I only have a few sets here at my disposal.
I know, I know, I should use my free time more constructively…like maybe figure out how to stop the ants from coming in and dying in my bathroom.
It's a no-brainer which version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to paint…the original, of course!
Clockwise from left: Augustus Gloop, Violet Beauregarde, Willy Wonka, Veruca Salt, an Oompa Loompa, Charlie Bucket, and Mike Teavee.
Wonka with an Everlasting Gobstopper and Augustus Gloop with not one but two Wonka bars.
Violet Beauregarde just before turning into a blueberry and Veruca Salt in the midst of a temper tantrum.
Mike Teavee in all his spaghetti western movie glory and Charlie Bucket with his golden ticket!
And of course the Oompa Loompa! He's mainly the reason why I went with the classic version and not Tim Burton's. Nothing against the re-make, but I love my Oompa Loompas with orange faces and green hair and those kicky overalls.
It all started out as a joke. A customer sent me a photograph of a cake shaped like a cockroach because that's the kind of stuff she does. After I stopped laughing, I passed it on to a friend a told her it would be funny to present something like it for the hubs' birthday, as Anthony is deathly afraid of the itty bitty vermin. Honestly, we're talking about a man who has faced crocs and sharks on a regular basis whilst on his kayaking expeditions yet he'd scream for me to come and kill the roaches. I can't tell you how many time he's run out of the house and wouldn't come in till I got rid of it.
As luck would have it, my friend Kristy actually knew an award-winning cake maker who made it happen. I can't say the roach has cured the hubs of his fears, but he can safely say that he's had himself a birthday—fear-factor style—by eating a cockroach!
Come on, a cake like this can't be bought from ANY shop! When it was unveiled we basically just stood around and stared at it, our mouths open. No one can work fondant like the fabulous Debbie Crispin.
We didn't even bother with candles or the birthday song. The cake absolutely overwhelmed us.
This was another cake Debbie has made earlier for Kristy's daughter Charlie's fairy themed birthday. Yes, that's a full miniature tea set and cake on the toadstool table. There was a debate then whether or not the cake should be cut up, but with eight little girls hopped up on sugar and wanting more, Kristy had no choice…although she did manage to salvage the entire tea set and the woodland critters! We didn't have much problem cutting up the roach cake…as it was chocolate and it's been a whole month since I had any sugar based product and I was itching to have a go at it!
Thanks, Debbie! You rock! It's a joy to have someone as talented as you to be a part of our special days.
It's occurred to me that the walls in my unit was shamefully barren so I devoted a week to doing something about it.
I mentioned once that I was a bit obsessed about putting everything in chart forms. That was a bit of an occupational hazard as teachers were forever telling their pupils to deconstruct the world around them in chart form. It eventually rubbed off on me.
I'd meant to do this series about 15 years ago and finally got around to getting it done. If I'm not the Queen of Procrastination, I don't know who is.
I couldn't help myself! I love cupcakes and I love glitter! I recently got my little hands on several bottles of Martha Stewart's glitter and after much deliberation, I decided to combine my two passions!
These gals competing for the Little Miss Cupcake Pageant have done it again! It's obvious that Miss Mango Parfait Cupcake is the front runner from the beginning. You can't miss her cupcake…nor her outrageously orange gown from the start. Is it any wonder she got the coveted Cupcake Trophy?
But the two runner ups: Miss Key Lime Cupcake and Miss Cherry Chocolate Cupcake, are nothing to sneeze at either. Although they haven't got the top honor, the loss will be sure to send them back into the kitchen, bettering their cupcake recipes for the next pageant!
Ever wonder how you can achieve that lovable nesting doll shape? Well, wonder no more! Here are three easy steps to procure and maintain this glorious figure!
Step 1: Eating right is essential. BoBo BaBushka recommends a high-calorie, high carb, high sodium, high fat, all-sugar and grease street fair diet. Corn dogs, candied apples, chicken kabobs, mozzarepa, funnel cakes, corn with mayo on it…just to name a few. You can wash it all down with the saccharine sweet lemonade and enjoy a sno-cone topped with extra syrup for dessert.
Step 2: Low impact exercise. High impact exercise regiments will not help you achieve the nesting doll figure. But BoBo BaBushka has figured out a way to aid those who are exercise-conscious. A walk from the couch to the refrigerator is just the kind of exercise that will both help your cause AND give your heart rate a little boost. Don't forget to rehydrate before and after these walks with a refreshing beverage such as a 32 oz. Crush.
Step 3: Get lots of Z's. Do not overlook the power of sleep! BoBo BaBushka recommends 10-14 hours of sleep daily, supplemented by frequent naps.
By applying these 3 easy steps to your daily routine, you, too, can have a nesting doll body in no time!


How to use the zodiac to manifest your life the way you were born to live it.
Drawing on over two thousand years of astrological tradition, John presents the zodiac soul using a wheel analogy: it is a wheel that is supposed to turn, but will inevitably get stuck and falter during the course of life's many challenges- whether these be around personal relationships, financial issues, health, career pressures or a low sense of self-worth. Through his programme, John reassuringly shows that these challenges all have their place in the wheel, and that our underlying fears and self-defeating behaviour patterns driving them can all be addressed and compassionately transformed.
With John's assistance, you will learn to identify where the wheel gets stuck in your own life and get it turning again. Turning The Wheel of Your Zodiac Soul will offer you a way of making significant changes, guiding you to manifest the life you were born to live.
John Wadsworth has been working as a professional astrologer since 1993 and has been teaching astrology since 2000, running the Kairos School of Astrology in Glastonbury. John holds an MA in Cultural Astronomy & Astrology from Bath Spa University. He also teaches night-sky astronomy and runs a mobile planetarium for schools.


The tour starts with transfer from your accommodation to the port of Split, and a 50-minute ferry ride to the island of Brač. From Supetar, the road takes us to the village called Škrip for a visit to a couple of unique museums: the Museum of the Island of Brač and the nearby Olive Oil Museum, with each one bringing history to life in its own way.
Historically speaking, the island is famous for its 2 millennia long stone production. It is a well-known fact that the stone for the construction of Diocletian's Palace was quarried here.
The specificity of the island of Brač, apart from its stony surface, is also in its altitude, making it the tallest Croatian island. In addition, the long history of Brač has always been marked by the cultivation of grapevine, especially the plavac mali variety.
The trip continues upwards to the tip of the island, to St. Vid`s Mountain – the island's highest peak. It offers the view of stunning landscapes on the mainland and surrounding islands, in particular the island of Hvar with its World Heritage Stari Grad Plain, which is actually a cultural landscape that has remained intact since the times of Ionian Greek colonisation back in the 4th century BC.
Our next stop is just a 10-minute descend away; an abandoned shepherds` village, a place where we shall relax and enjoy ourselves while having an authentic meal prepared under a metal lid, locally called the peka.
After the village in the hills, our journey will take us down to the sea, to the town of Bol. In tourist terms, the island of Brač is best known for its Zlatni rat (Golden Horn) beach in Bol, which is featured in the 'Ten most beautiful beaches in the world' list. Covered with fine pebbles, it has a triangular shape with a peak protruding out in the sea, constantly changing direction depending on the current. Due to favourable winds, Bol's beach is also quite popular among windsurfers.
However, we are in Bol for an entirely different reason: to visit a wine cellar which produces some superb wines. Founded on May 15, 1901, this cellar was the first Dalmatian winemaking cooperative. The building was completed in 1903, housing the winemaking cooperative's konoba (cellar) on the ground floor, and a school, teacher's apartment and municipal office on the first floor. Today, this building is one of the most modern and best-equipped wine cellars in Croatia. Apart from the premises for grape processing and aging of wine furnished with the state-ot-the-art equipment, the cellar also contains a superbly designed wine tasting and sales area.
Food Lamb and/or veal and/or chicken with vegetables prepared in a traditional way, weather under the lid (peka), roasted, grilled, or cooked. Final choice determined upon inquiry.
Beverages Local homemade wine & beverages for lunch. Premium quality local wines (Pošip, Plavac mali) during wine tasting.
Available options Depending on the inquiry and budget, using speedboat on this tour offers much more options for additional activities. We recommend visiting stonemasonry school or/and swimming/hiking activities.


Simply Waste Solutions has acquired the waste management division of London-based Dirty Harry's Group, Simply Waste's second purchase of the year.
The deal will increase Simply Waste's customer base by a further 500-plus customers in central London.
James Capel, Simply Waste Solutions' chief executive and founder (pictured), said: "We have always stated that it is our intention to grow the business, both organically and through strategic acquisitions, and so this addition will enable us to both increase our customer base and consolidate our already strong presence in the capital.
As part of the acquisition, more than 30 Dirty Harry's staff currently operating in the waste division will become Simply Waste employees. Dirty Harry's will continue to operate under its brand name, focusing on its core businesses of cleaning, vending, washroom services, janitorial supplies and support staff.
Scott Knight, managing director of the Dirty Harry's Group, said: "Although our waste management division achieved considerable commercial success in the past decade, it has become increasingly clear to us that this service is rapidly becoming highly specialised and now requires a dedicated focus.
In January, Simply Waste purchased the wheeled bin collection division of Oxfordshire-based M&M Waste Solutions.