A small bar in the American town of Ferfax is full of visitors - mostly teenagers. All as one with massive chains on the neck, studded bracelets on the hands and hairstyles of all the colors of the rainbow on their heads. The impromptu scene is dark -haired and dark -haired musicians in shabby black t -shirts and stopped sneakers. Having finished the next song, the soloist raises an electric guitar above his head and shouts: “Stop hatred!” The hall responds to him with a loud, approving howl.

In the middle of the road opposite the house of the Basaad family in the town of Deer, there is a pothole - a trace of the fall of the Kassam rocket, hello from the near Gaza. The fragments of this rocket were seriously injured by 14-year-old Adir Basaad and his friend. The teenagers returned from the exam at school, and the alarm found them in the middle of the road. “Doctors said that he was hopeless, but he survived, although now the whole is like a sieve,” says his elder brother Ben.

Last week, I learned that for two years I have been living in the most expensive city in the world, a place with such frantic prices that a simple cup of coffee costs $ 6.18 here. I was shocked by this news. If this is true, then I will have to completely reconsider my lifestyle, especially expenses. My long -time agent and adviser, Morris Snidman, Esquire, agreed with me: “Six and a half bucks per cup of coffee? Yes, these communists want to ruin us, Aims.

Dear reader! This is not the first time - "The party said: nano!" , and they answer “Nano means nano” . The parties said a lot of things like that, but they were always answered “Yes!”. Now nanotechnologies have been announced as another "our all" - a means of general and global modernization, overcoming the Russian backlog in one big leap.

The party said Nano! Seven years ago, Bill Clinton announced the onset of the era of nanotechnology. Four years ago, the ode of the new science sang Jacques Shirak. Tony Blair and George Bush paid her tribute last year, ahead of the Saudi king Abdullah, who donated about $ 10 million on Nano only before the last New Year. And Vladimir Putin was ahead of President Taiwan.

One of the out -of -competition hits of the MMKF - “Angel” by Francois Ozon goes into our rental right during the festival, on Thursday June 28. This is not a sin of distributors: a similar practice has been adopted in Cannes and Berlin festivals. Francois Ozon is already remarkable in that not a single full -length film is like the previous ones, while all without exception - even if someone does not like subjectively - are certainly famous.

Before the Russian premiere of "Angel" and the arrival of the Moscow Film Festival, Francois Ozon gave an interview to the film faces of the Russian Newsweek Yuri Gladilshchikov. Have you conceived an “Angel” as a parody of the genre of “ladies' reading” or as a real film tragedy? I was not going to make a parody. Although, of course, the film should be considered as a genre game.

In the village of Mubambiro, near the city of Goma in the Western Congo, live pygmies from the jungle - about a dozen families. They were evicted from the rainforest to a field two years ago by UN peacekeepers - "for security purposes." They live, as before, in reed huts - but they discovered clothes for themselves: the whole village now flaunts European second-hand brought by the UN. “The local Hutus told me that it turns out that it can also be washed!” - the old pygmy rejoices.