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http://ift.tt/2rrA3zC US actress Kirsten Dunst (L0 and Australian-US actress Nicole Kidman embrace as they leave on May 24, 2017 following the screening of the film 'The Beguiled' at the 70th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. Valery HACHE / AFP Hollywood has always adapted the classics but film and television’s voracious appetite for new material now has film-makers raiding the bookshelves like never before. Six of the movies in the running for the Cannes film festival’s Palme d’Or top prize — which will be awarded Sunday — are taken from books. Sofia Coppola drew from Thomas Cullinan’s classic Southern Gothic novel for “The Beguiled” starring Colin Farrell as a handsome Union officer who stokes sexual tension and jealousy inside a girl’s school during the American Civil War. And Francois Ozon turned up the temperature of Joyce Carol Oates’ sexual psycho drama “Double Delight” to almost unbearable levels for his steamy “Amant double”. ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J In 1944, president Franklin Roosevelt urged Congress to pass a “second bill of rights.” Number six on the list was “the right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health.” Seventy-three years later, despite the passage of many health care reforms, his dream remains as controversial as it was back then. Under former president Barack Obama, more than 20 million previously uninsured Americans gained health care coverage. Those who would have once had to sell their homes to pay for cancer treatments or limited doctors’ visits because of the cost gained at least some peace of mind. But in the land of rugged individualism, health care has never attained the status of fundamental right, unlike education. Health insurance is simply a product like any other, say Republicans who, under the leadership of President Donald Trump, are trying to repeal most of Obamacare, the landmark law signed in 2010. – Private system – After World War II...