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...quite behind when it comes to fundamental etiquette," concedes Chen Zhenmin, deputy director of the Shanghai Spiritual Civilization Office. In Shanghai, China's most cosmopolitan city, local leaders have unveiled a campaign called "Be a Lovely Shanghainese" that instructs citizens to give up bus seats to the elderly, urinate directly into the toilet and refrain from stealing plants from parks. The campaign has recruited 800,000 volunteers to help direct Shanghai's chaotic traffic and asks civil servants not to dye their hair exotic shades like red, green or blue...
...movie's narration begins, "A story like mine should never be told," and on screen it almost wasn't. Not long after the book became a sensation, Steven Spielberg signed on to direct; five years and many scripts later, he bowed out while staying on as a producer. Lucy Fisher, a producer, jokes that her next choice was David Lean, "but he wasn't available," having died in 1991. Other directors expressed interest, but none stuck. Then, in 2002, Fisher and her producing partner Douglas Wick saw Chicago and figured they had their man. "Geishas are trained much like dancers...
DIED. ALEXANDER (''Sandy'') MACKENDRICK, 81, director; in Los Angeles. Joining England's Ealing Studios as a scriptwriter in 1946, Mackendrick went on to direct the nimble Alec Guinness satires The Man in the White Suit (1951) and The Ladykillers (1955). His major American credit: the biting Burt Lancaster- Tony Curtis show-biz expose Sweet Smell of Success...
...stories are just as they have been said. They're outrageous, and they're not so.'' -- President Clinton responding to a reporter's direct question about allegations of sexual misconduct made against him by Arkansas state troopers
...second half of the show, and in her creative process, Rau-Murthy temporally embodied the theme of the production: the fusion of old and new South Asian cultures. Co-Director Aditi Mallick ’08 echoes the sentiment and says that she was first drawn to direct the production because of the project’s fearlessness in putting “a new spotlight on the sometimes-forgotten classical dance...