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Death, a stranger in any child's cosmos, seems grossly alien in Hilary's. She lives in a pale-yellow house a block from the ocean in Avon-by-the-Sea, N.J. The tiny town is a summer beach destination--Ginny met George on the boardwalk when she was just 17 and both were working menial hotel jobs--with a year-round population of slightly more than 2,000. Yet even in the off-season Avon retains a certain lazy, carefree air. Sweeping front porches serve as social hubs. Traffic grinds to a halt so that ducks can meander across...
...What the heck is Bollywood? Well, it's not your uncle's Satyajit Ray movies--stately pace, unknown actors, Ravi Shankar sitar music. Bollywood is a star-driven cosmos--actresses with names like Dimple Kapadia, Preity Zinta and Karisma Kapoor; hunks of every age, from stalwart Amitabh Bachchan, 59, to giga-charmer Shahrukh Khan, 36, to suave, elaborately muscled Hrithik Roshan, 28 (all three graced the 2001 blockbuster Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham). Bollywood operates under the vulture eyes of a voracious entertainment press and under the shadow of organized crime. Two years ago, Hrithik's father, director Rakesh Roshan...
...What the heck is Bollywood? Well, it's not your uncle's Satyajit Ray movies?stately pace, unknown actors, Ravi Shankar sitar music. Bollywood is a star-driven cosmos?actresses with names like Dimple Kapadia, Preity Zinta and Karisma Kapoor; hunks of every age, from stalwart Amitabh Bachchan, 59, to giga-charmer Shahrukh Khan, 36, to suave, elaborately muscled Hrithik Roshan, 28 (all three graced the 2001 blockbuster Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham). Bollywood operates under the vulture eyes of a voracious entertainment press and under the shadow of organized crime. Two years ago, Hrithik's father, director Rakesh Roshan...
...distinctions between reality and marketing began to blur when Ogami went Hollywood. By 2001, his operations included a subsidiary called G. Cosmos that had gathered 20,000 members in the Philippines and 30,000 in Indonesia, collecting about $1 million in each country. G.O. Group was preparing to launch in Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong. To spread his name around the region, Ogami began production of his long-nurtured dream: an action movie starring himself...
...from the first) and the other as his mistress. He bought a gated mansion with a pool in Manila's ritzy Ayala Alabang neighborhood, hired eight bodyguards and began looking for ways to do business there. A mutual acquaintance introduced Ogami to Inoue, whom Ogami hired to launch G. Cosmos in 1999. "His next plan was to get his money out of Japan by buying an overseas bank," claims Inoue, "then use it as his own piggy bank." In September 2001, G.O. Group purchased a $13 million thrift bank called Unitrust...