Re: Smoking. Was: Clarke Award Finalists 2001

On 2025-06-18, Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

<https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57246206>

>
I wasn't aware that Mathieu Kassovitz was the "the ... star of
/Amelie/". I always that that Audrey Toutou was the star. But then, I
am not French and so do not automatically assign top billing to the
male, particularly when the female is clearly the person that the film
is about.

My lad, you're quoting a BBC article.  Don't blame the French for
British misdeeds.  Also, the BBC in general has the habit of
identifying actors by the most popular movie they've been in, so
if an actor with a long and distinguished career dies, the headline
will be "Star Wars actor dies" or "Harry Potter actor dies" or some
such, for a tiny role they played in one of those movies.

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