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...January, he's already co-starred in a Hong Kong triad movie, Jiang Hu, which is set for release in the territory at the end of this month. He's also busy running his relaunched production and management company, Focus, after previous production efforts with several partners in the '90s bombed. "For 10 years we lost a lot of money," says Lau, who admits he has lost millions of dollars on poorly vetted projects. In 1996, he staked a small fortune on What a Wonderful Life, in which he played a terminally ill cancer patient who dies photographing an erupting...
...arrangements condensed into indie-pop gems, with alternating absurdity and striking poignancy. Athens, Ga.’s Elf Power continue to depart from this sound on their new release, an album striking mostly for its choice of Athenian forebears—abandoning the region’s mid-90s psychedelic boom, here the Elves seem to be doing their best R.E.M. The album has a warm, folksy sound, immersed in twanging banjo and shuffling guitar. The consequence of this, from a band used to more complex arrangements, is that Beggar Boys ultimately suffers from boredom, especially around the middle...
...contract Hicks signed him to in 2000, for a quarter of a billion dollars, is by far the highest ever for an athlete. A-Rod's $252 million over 10 years was negotiated at the height of the '90s irrational exuberance. When the Rangers' performance and attendance started collapsing, Hicks lost his gamble, having to trade ARod while continuing to cover part of his salary. Being known for your salary is a dubious recognition, but ARod handles it smoothly. "I'm proud of my contract," he says, sitting with his wife on the deck of their house...
...view, prevalent in Australia until the '90s, that female swimmers were past it by their late teens has sunk like a brick. "I don't care how good a kid is or what traumas she's faced," says Don Talbot, Australia's former head coach and now a consultant to Australian Swimming, "keep her in the water until she's 21 and she'll excel." By that age, Talbot argues, most women have overcome issues of body image and social awkwardness, and are ready to hit a peak that can last five years or more. But Gould was long gone...
...sometimes just a bit surreal. He works within the great tradition of personal documentary that stretches from Walker Evans through Robert Frank to Soth's teacher, Joel Sternfeld. Though that tradition was pushed aside somewhat by the postmodern antics of the 1980s and the digitally manipulated images of the '90s, Soth's pictures are proof of its enduring strength and ragged glories...