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...More lenient censorship has helped spark a Renaissance in local filmmaking: last year, 22 movies were released, more than double the number in 2002 and three times more than in 2001. 30 Days to Look for Love portrays three girls who bet they can get a boyfriend within a month. It isn't just romances that have fans queuing up. Tusuk Jelangkung (The Undead), a Sixth Sense-style psychological thriller, drew an estimated 1.4 million moviegoers, triple the turnout for a typical Hollywood offering. "Finally we're seeing films that Indonesians can relate to," says Aida Nurmala, who plays...
...both frank and frankly worth reading. Malorie Blackman's 2001 best seller Noughts and Crosses transcended the kid-lit clichés even as it staked out disputed new turf for youth fiction. Its 13-year-old black hero, Sephy, starts out French-kissing her 15-year-old white boyfriend, Callum; encounters racism, alcoholism, depression and suicide; and ends up pregnant and alone when Callum is hanged for terrorism. In Blackman's sequel, Knife Edge (Doubleday; 364 pages), published this month, things take a turn for the worse. What really caught the imagination of young readers in Noughts and Crosses...
...desk drawer, he finds a number of postcards and papers. “Uh-oh. ‘Love Brian’ [he reads on a postcard]. There’s a ‘Brian’ in her life. Looks like her ex-boyfriend of sorts, based on what he wrote...
...Long before Bridget Jones and Carrie Bradshaw made the suffering singleton chic, a neurotic, noseless career woman was a pioneer among Neanderthals like Hagar the Horrible. Now CATHY, the funny papers' eternal (or since 1976) bachelorette, will get a marriage proposal. The chubby cartoon icon has been warring with boyfriend Irving in recent strips, but he will finally pop the question on Valentine's Day. How Cathy responds is under wraps. Next to a photocopier somewhere, Dilbert is kicking himself...
...over the world--"We aren't going to go crazy with advertising and promotion," he says--and agree that she could limit her number of publicity obligations. Then Jones, who lives on Manhattan's West Side, insulated herself with the near constant presence of her band, which includes her boyfriend of four years, bassist Lee Alexander. "I really wanted to write more songs for this record"--she wrote just two on the first--"and I wanted to write songs with them," says Jones. "Lee and I write very well together, but I write well with everybody else [in the band...