MAD ABOUT MOVIES: Nowhere is the
collision of art and commerce more pronounced than at the Cannes Film Festival, and HBO's tantalizing quasi-mock-documentary Seduced and Abandoned (9 / 8c) gives us a ringside seat, courtesy
of Alec Baldwin — a Cannes newbie, incredibly — and director pal James Toback, who celebrate the history and glamorous hysteria
of this venerated
event while purporting to pitch a passion project to investors: an
unlikely political sex drama they call «Last Tango in Tikrit.»