Archive for July, 2006
Saturday, July 29th, 2006
Zidane: un Portrait du 21e Siècle
The National Galleries of Scotland have paid a reported £70,000 for a special cut of Douglas Gordon’s film Zidane: un Portrait du 21e Siècle. The film, which follows Zidane throughout a game between Real Madrid and Villareal on April 23, 2005, will premier in the UK at Edinburgh Film Festival before its theatrical release in [...]
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Saturday, July 22nd, 2006
The trouble with book reviewing
Ruth Franklin has a review of David Mitchell’s Black Swan Green in this week’s New Republic. She bemoans the trite superlatives that populate positive book reviews, praises Dale Peck, laments the decline of standards we have for great books, and bashes Heidi Julavits and the Believer’s anti-snark stance. She then goes on to laud Black [...]
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Thursday, July 20th, 2006
Fifa suspends and fines Materazzi and Zidane
Fifa announced today the suspensions and fines of both Zidane and Materazzi. Zidane will be suspended for three matches and fined 7500 Swiss francs. Materazzi will be suspended for two matches and fined 5000 Swiss francs. This means that Materazzi may potentially miss France’s rematch with Italy in the Euro 2008 qualifier match that takes [...]
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Thursday, July 13th, 2006
Fifa to investigate Materazzi’s comments
Fifa has launched a probe into Marco Materazzi’s comments that provoked Zinédine Zidane to headbut him in the 110th minute of the World Cup final on Sunday, summoning both players to appear in Zurich on July 20.
Meanwhile, Materazzi has said that Zidane deserves the Golden Ball award, which he won for being voted the best [...]
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Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
Videos of Zidane’s appearances on TF1 and Canal +
You can watch Zidane’s interview on TF1 here. The Canal + video can be found here.
The BBC has also posted an incomplete transcript of Zidane’s interview on Canal +.
I enjoyed the TF1 interview more than the Canal + one as Zidane seems more at ease and less defensive. He comes across in this interview [...]
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Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
Zidane to speak tonight; FIFA may strip award
Zidane will speak tonight at 19:00 Paris time (2 pm EST) on Canal + about the World Cup Final.
Fifa president Sepp Blatter has suggested that the organization may strip Zidane of his Golden Ball award as the World Cup’s best player. Of course, this should come as no surprise from an organization as corrupt [...]
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Monday, July 10th, 2006
Cody’s Closes
Cody’s Books on Telegraph is closing today.
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Monday, July 10th, 2006
Zidane “provoked,” to speak about World Cup final
In the Guardian today:
Zinedine Zidane’s chestbutt on Marco Materazzi was “provoked” by a comment from the Italy defender, according to the player’s agent. And, while Alain Migliaccio did not know what Materazzi said, he confirmed that Zidane would reveal the exact nature of the comments soon.
The group SOS Racism has further reported that Materazzi [...]
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Sunday, July 2nd, 2006
Weekend Round-up
The Contra Costa Times summarizes and laments the state of independent bookstores in the Bay Area. In their article, a local writer, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, is quoted as saying, “A bookseller like Cody’s or Book Passage doesn’t just participate in the scene. They help create it. They are actually generating the literary culture. They’re not [...]
