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...Love is a matter of timing," Chow observes. "It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late." Chow intersected with all these women too soon or too late. Wong Kar-wai got all of them at the apogee of their craft and allure. That's part of his filmmaking process: to sculpt the role to the performer. "If you want to make a film with an actor or actress, there must be something that attracts you. I'm trying to exploit that quality, which they might not even be aware of. So I normally...
...DIED. JOHNNY RAMONE, 55, guitarist and co-founder of seminal punk band The Ramones, known for their angsty punk anthems like I Wanna Be Sedated and Blitzkrieg Bop; after a five-year battle with prostate cancer; in Los Angeles. Ramone, born John Cummings, helped craft The Ramones' thrashing, guitar-driven songs and unadorned pop melodies that became a model for future groups from the Sex Pistols to Nirvana. Despite his rebellious image, Ramone was a teetotaler and staunch Republican who belonged to the National Rifle Association...
...SKINNY: On CBS next year, 16 aspiring clothiers will battle before a "style council." The winner gets to craft a line under urban outfitter TOMMY HILFIGER'S label...
...probe, part of a $260 million mission to study the evolution of the solar system, captured solar particles 1.5 million kilometers from Earth on its 37-month journey. With its cargo considered too delicate for a hard landing, helicopters manned by stunt pilots were deployed to snare the craft as it drifted down?but the parachute mishap meant the saucer-shaped ship plummeted to Earth at almost 320 km/h. NASA researchers hope to recover much of the payload, about the weight of a few grains of salt, from the wreckage...
...mortal, relying on our guides, ourselves and our next slippery foothold to get us through. Pat and our other guide, Dan, warn us that a fall here almost certainly means death, even as they have to leap onto wet rocks themselves to unsnag the rafts. We pull our little craft on ropes, use them as bridges to clamber over, tugging them as we inch backward along narrow ledges above frothing water. We push and pull them over boulders midstream, dropping them in the water on the other side and jumping into them one by one. Adrenaline flows as fast...