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...early to know whether Petersen and the screenwriter, novelist David Benioff (25th Hour), will be partisan or neutral. But Troy is bound to be handsome. The cinematographer is Roger Pratt, who shot Brazil and Batman in the '80s and gave a nicely sepulchral tone to last year's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. And heading the cast is a tony quartet of hunks: Brad Pitt as Achilles, Eric Bana (who somehow survived the wreck of The Hulk) as Hector, Sean Bean (Boromir in The Lord of the Rings) as Odysseus and Orlando Bloom (who was Tolkien...
...That's good news all round. For sure, China's stupendous economic growth is unsettling. As Washington economist (and former Clinton adviser) Robert Shapiro points out, China's exporters are taking markets away from nations like Mexico, Thailand and Brazil, all of which need to see steady growth to raise their populations' standard of living. But over the coming decade, the U.S. will have a vital interest in maintaining a mature dialogue with China?on what to do about North Korea, the future of Taiwan, global warming and the demand for fossil fuels. The last thing Washington needs...
...strangest thing is that he asked no questions when the doctor started preparations in the area." VANESSA GUIMARAES, a manager at a clinic in Brazil, on a patient who entered the clinic to be treated for an earache but ended up having a vasectomy performed on him in error...
...Evidente. The greatest shoe salesman in the world, Evidente, 33, is the anti--Willy Loman. He is a celebrity not only in Manhattan, where he has been selling for the Manolo Blahnik store for the past 12 years, but also around the world. When he stayed with clients in Brazil for Carnaval, he was bold-faced in the paper. Blahnik signed a copy of his book for Evidente, "To Ben. Without you, we are nothing." He makes so much money that he just bought a vacation house in Hawaii. And here at the semiannual sale, with women standing in line...
...knew it would be a shambles," said one prominent hotelier, who asked to remain anonymous. A local art dealer sniffed, "Carnival is in the blood. You can't conjure it up on a word processor," adding that comparisons with Brazil were ludicrous...