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...first big Hollywood role in Romeo Must Die, director Andrzej Bart-kowiak's star-crossed-killers melodrama that earned a robust $4.1 million on its midweek opening day and kept on kicking all weekend. Soon he may play Kato (Bruce Lee's role on '60s TV) in an update of The Green Hornet or a role in a sequel to The Matrix. It's all part of Li's strategy: "First you open the door so people know who Jet Li is. Next you prove yourself and make some money for the studio. Then you'll have the chance...
...yacht packed with vacationing millionaires off the coast of St. Bart's is an unlikely laboratory for social-policy reform. So perhaps it was the Caribbean sea breeze or the free-flowing 1945 Mouton-Rothschild that got Michael Saylor, the 35-year-old CEO of the high-tech company MicroStrategy, thinking about how to amend the inequities in higher education. He shared his thoughts over sea bass and chocolate souffle. "And by the end of the evening," he recalls, "I knew I'd hit on the next big thing in education...
...Fosters, and then you have your E! True Hollywood Stories ("But the future would hold different strokes indeed for young Gary Coleman ..."). Nevertheless, actor Frankie Muniz, 14, is facing that enviable yet uncertain future eagerly. Like his character Malcolm, a spunky grade-schooler with a 165 IQ (he's Bart and Lisa Simpson), Muniz was plucked early, spotted by an agent at age 8 playing Tiny Tim onstage in A Christmas Carol. Several TV and stage roles later, the scrawny, blue-eyed Frankie, his mother Denise and his sister Cristina, 15, are moving from Woodridge, N.J., to Los Angeles...
...also has to wonder how this will affect the Combs-Lopez romance. Lasting relationships are not usually built on dates that end in gunfire and group arrests. But the arrests shouldn't taint Lopez professionally. Says Variety editor Peter Bart: "So many actors today have such a bland demeanor. A slightly dangerous rep might help, or even enhance, her career." As for Combs, who has proclaimed his innocence, his latest CD, Forever, hasn't sold well, and these new legal hassles only add to his worries. Just last April, Combs was arrested for assaulting a record executive, a matter...