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...Corriente, was released. The fans are restless. "There's no question that he has made salsa more exciting," says Leila Cobo, Billboard magazine's Caribbean and Latin American bureau chief. "Now the challenge will be conquering the mainstream audience." That's exactly what he aimed for during the late-'90s, Ricky-and-Jennifer Latin-crossover blitz. In 1999, after a career singing in Spanish, Anthony released his first English-language pop album. Marc Anthony sold more than 4 million copies internationally; the album's single, I Need to Know, was a Top 10 hit in the U.S. That CD proved...
DIED. MICHAEL L. DERTOUZOS, 64, inventor computer visionary and longtime director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's computer-science lab; of a heart attack; in Boston. Dertouzos predicted in 1976 that 1 out of 3 homes would have a PC by the mid-'90s. In 1993 he spearheaded the expansion of the World Wide Web beyond government and business uses. Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee praised Dertouzos as "a spring of enthusiasm, capability, insight and experience that drove a half-formed idea...into an international reality...
...real estate, and its government is too big. University graduates have poor skills not only in English but in Chinese, too. Corporations are hiring in the mainland, and firing in Hong Kong. Premier Zhu Rongji, a former Shanghai mayor, allowed the mainland property bubble to burst in the mid-'90s without intervention. Now, Shanghai and other Chinese cities are bursting with new businesses in part because both wages and asset prices are but a fraction of Hong Kong...
...Korea stumbled toward democracy in the '90s, the lid popped off. Talented young directors, many trained overseas, began making powerful films that often shocked audiences with graphic depictions of sex and violence. Technical quality improved steadily and genres multiplied. Shiri, released in 1999, was the breakthrough. Hollywood-style in its pacing and punch, it probed the still-sensitive issue of relations between the two Koreas through the story of a North Korean assassin who falls in love with a South Korean counterintelligence agent. The film sold 5.8 million tickets, shattering the previous record for a locally made movie...
...Getting the word out overseas is still a challenge. Few moviegoers outside of the country can name a Korean actor or director or, for that matter, a Korean film. Jason Chae is trying to change that. Working as a cinema journalist in the mid-'90s, he was dismayed to find Korean flicks overshadowed by Japanese and Chinese entries at international festivals because nobody was bothering to promote them. Chae, who grew up as a movie nut, set up Mirovision in 1998, the first company to promote and sell Korean movies overseas. "We needed to do something besides just make...