Newt Gingrich, during his tenure as House Speaker, declared the Sixties "a momentary aberration in American history that will be looked back upon as a quaint period of Bohemianism brought to the national elite." The implication was that the countercultural and political movements of the era were out of step...

When the 62nd Cannes Film Festival opens tomorrow, Variety and The Hollywood Reporter will have virtually called a halt to a longstanding cross-Croisette daily news war. Both trades will still be publishing their usual special Cannes Daily Editions, and competing for stories, but under unprecedented limitations:

• While fielding a...