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...Bahamas in late September last year, two weeks after her son's death. Together, they had jumped off a catamaran after the ceremony, swimming to a nearby island where they celebrated with champagne and fried chicken. This week, she checked into the glitzy Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. She'd been there in the past. It was the sort of place you'd expect to see Anna Nicole Smith. And that was where she collapsed...
...agitated TV cameraman sits on the edge of a couch. "Have you seen him?" I ask. "If I had seen him I wouldn't be here," he snaps. So we head out again, popping our heads into every club and casino we see. At the Grand Emperor Hotel, its entrance fronted by two gilded carriages, we ride an escalator to the amplified sound of jangling coins broadcast through the sound system. I doubt he's really here, but on a floor of slot machines, I ask hotel staff to page Mr. Kim. The woman behind the desk stares...
James Bond has saved the day again. But this time he needed help from a boy wizard - and the tax code. After a slump that had the muggles using words like crisis and disaster, Britain's film industry is back and (almost) better than ever. Films like Casino Royale and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix have made 2006 the second-best year on record for the industry. According to figures released Jan. 15 by the UK Film Council, $1.65 billion was spent on making 134 films wholly or partly in Britain last year - 48% more than...
...Martin Scorsese, who won the Best Director Globe for The Departed, but he's been disappointed so often before - five Oscar nominations without winning, and not even a nod for Taxi Driver or Casino - that it might be imprudent for Scorsese to stoke his hopes one more time. It'll be even creepier that, this time, he's the favorite...
...them are going to see a movie about, at least in part, sectarian tension in the United States. When it opened on Thanksgiving, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan was the third most watched movie in Lebanon, trailing only such blockbuster fare as Casino Royale...