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...York and I played in underground clubs, because there’s no legal gambling in New York,” he says. “I loved it—it was like home.” That home was in Chelsea. He would buzz at an ordinary-looking black door, and then he would be admitted into a waiting area with video cameras, which would scan the area for police. If there were no cops, he would enter into a room with about eight poker tables. If there were cops, there would be a “Raid...
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...Most remarkably, Korean cinema is starting to generate buzz?and revenue?overseas. Korean films are attracting growing audiences in cinema-savvy Japan and Hong Kong, as well as in smaller niche markets like Vietnam, where Korean stars are so popular they set fashion trends. Actresses like Lee Yeong Ae and Shim Eun Ha are showing up on the covers of magazines such as Japan's popular weekly Aera. Foreign production houses are signing co-financing deals with Korean partners. Overseas sales, while still small, have tripled in the past three years to more than $7 million. Even Hollywood is paying...
...movies overseas. "We needed to do something besides just make the films," says Chae. "Nobody was doing international sales and promotion." He got the ball rolling by putting filmmakers in touch with buyers abroad whom he had met as a reporter. In the wake of Shiri and the growing buzz over Korean films at international festivals, distributors around Asia started to answer his calls. These days, the distribution channels are firmly in place, starting with Japan, the industry's biggest market. Tokyo-based distributor Cinequanon paid $1 million for Shiri, the first Korean film to open nationwide in Japan, where...
...damns by faint (or no) praise "Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our Recent History" by journalist Kati Marton, wife of Richard Holbrooke, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during the Clinton administration (Pantheon; September 21). "Predictable...banal...Marton has delivered crisply written political gossip - those who want buzz will flock to it; those looking for serious history will turn elsewhere. FORECAST: Despite its light quality, or perhaps because of it, this will be talked about everywhere, aided by a 13-city author tour, appearances on 20/20, Charlie Rose and other national media. Its first printing of 100,000 should...