Documentary telling the story of one of the greatest soccer teams America ever had. In the 1970s, the New York Cosmos became the football equivalent of the Harlem Globetrotters, signing giants of the game such as Pele, Carlos Alberto & many more. Egos, impulses & cultures clashes created a larger than life atmosphere among both players & the club's executives with a fan base that included everyone from the worlds of fashion, music, art, politics & business. The Cosmos drew crowds of 80, 000 fans & won several league championships with their eye-catching football. But as media attention snowballed, so did the star-status of the glamorous footballers who soon became notorious players on the legendary 1970s New York City party circuit at Studio 54. The dream could not be sustained, however, & the team imploded in the early 1980s. As ratings dropped, the US TV networks pulled their financing & the brief but glorious US love affair with the beautiful game was over. ...

A collection of interwoven stories, this is a portrait of two worlds
- a small Alpine village bound to the earth & by tradition,
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A strain of the deadly Marburg virus has come up for sale on the black market, & the seller has showcased his wares by infecting an African village. APO has one potential lead: a researcher named Magrite whose success in treating Marburg victims may be the reason for his sudden disappearance. ...

Becca finds herself in the classic bind of a successful career & life-style but no relationship & no children. Her typically tough & cynical solution is to search her list of ex-boyfriends for the one approximating most nearly to an Alpha male & arrange a financial deal with him to give her a baby. ...

A young French woman in Peking in the late 1970s interprets between Chinese professors & Bertolucci for his film The Last Emperor. Afterwards, she follows a disgruntled old professor who tells her about a text believed to be taken directly from Buddha's teachings & inscribed on silk cloth centuries ago. ...