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...Life, that she really finds herself out of her element: she is the only nonactor or nonmusician in a group of seven former celebrities picked to share a mansion for 10 days. "None of us know who she is," says housemate and former teen idol Corey Feldman in the debut episode. "She's not part of our society." "I felt like she didn't belong here--maybe because she was from a reality show," says roomie Brande Roderick (Baywatch Hawaii star and Playboy Playmate), disappointed that Manthey wasn't Robin Givens, whom Manthey replaced at the last minute...
...Scarf Girl, also a memoir written in English, won a number of children's book awards in America, including a gold Parents' Choice Award in 1998. Jung Chang's Wild Swans has sold nearly eight million copies since it was first published in Britain in 1991. Lulu Wang's debut Dutch-language novel, The Lily Theater, became a publishing sensation in Holland...
...find some of Price. They're both from high-rise public housing, which is where Price learned the urban folkways he mapped out in his 1974 debut novel, The Wanderers, that made him, at 24, Studs Lonigan for the generation that would adopt the Ramones. Over the next nine years, he published two formidable books and one that was not so formidable, and discovered cocaine. After a struggle, he put drugs aside. Concluding that he was tapped out for a while as a novelist, he, like Ray, shipped himself to Hollywood, where he made a fortune writing films like...
...needs is the commitment. And that's something bred into an actor-director. When Matt Dillon went looking for pointers before his directorial debut, he got a pep talk from director John Milius: "He told me there are two people who come onto a set believing they can make the greatest movie ever--the director and the actor." And who better to make that lovely hallucination come true than the actor-director? --Reported by Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles and Joel Stein/New York
...Mart is now the leading retailer in Mexico. The company recently landed in Japan, buying 34% of Seiyu, a leading retailer there, adding market No. 10. That leaves most of Europe, not to mention large parts of Asia and South America. Wal-Mart made a dream debut in the U.K. with the $10.7 billion acquisition of ASDA in mid-1999, where it discovered a company almost perfectly in tune with its Every Day Low Price (EDLP) culture. But expansion in Germany has been less than stellar, delaying, perhaps, Wal-Mart's move into the rest of Europe. Wal-Mart reached...