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  "path": "/issues/2026-5-9/once-upon-a-time-in-cannes",
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  "textContent": "\n\n  The opening ceremony for the 39th Cannes Film Festival, on May 9, 1986, where Martin Scorsese’s _After Hours,_ starring Griffin Dunne, stole the show.\n\n##### Forty years ago, Muammar al-Qaddafi threatened to blow up the Cannes Film Festival. The author attended anyway, with Griffin Dunne—and the rest is history\n\nBy Mitch Glazer\n\n_U.S. JETS HIT TERRORIST CENTERS IN LIBYA - The U.S. conducted a series of air strikes on Monday night against what the White House called “terrorist centers” and military bases in Libya…. The Associated Press in a dispatch from Tripoli said Colonel Qaddafi’s home was among the buildings hit on the raid there …”\n— _Bernard Weinraub, special to _The New York Times,_ April 15, 1986\n\n _HOLLYWOOD UNSURE ON CANNES TRIPS - Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Whoopi Goldberg have cancelled their trips to the Cannes Film Festival…. Mr. Scorsese, the director of “After Hours,” which is competing for prizes and READ ON_",
  "title": "Once upon a Time in Cannes"
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