French Smash Comedy Hits NYC!  Categories: Film   The Rendez-
Vous With French Cinema series at Lincoln Center kicked off last
night with a gala showing of the French smash The Intouchables,
with François Cluzet as a disabled rich aesthete who bonds
against all odds with his boisterous, lowbrow, lovable
Senegalese caretaker (César winner Omar Sy).  It's a highly
enjoyable buddy picture that screams out to be remade with the
younger versions of De Niro and Eddie Murphy.  (If you have any
idea of who those actors might be, please notify Harvey
Weinstein -- or just tell me and I'll pass it along.)  Weinstein
presented the film last night, fresh off his awards triumph with
another little French movie called The Artist.  Cracked a French
film representative to the crowd, "Now we know how to get an
American award. Just be silent."  But a fellow reporter was not
so quiet when she told me that Uggie the dog was starting to
look a little peaked toward the end of the campaign trail.
"He's old!" she related.  "In dog ye