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...line for the throne? As the eldest, Jong Nam is the logical choice, but he is thought to be odd even by Kim family standards and unfit to rule. The apparent deal breaker occurred in 2001 when he was caught trying to sneak into Japan on a Dominican passport so he could visit Tokyo Disneyland. In 2002, state media seemed to be clearing a path for one of Kim's younger sons by boosting the profile of Ko, but her death last year, reportedly of cancer, may have thrown the succession into confusion again. In November, South Korean intelligence revealed...
Murray grew up in the Chicago suburb of Wilmette, Ill., the fifth of nine children. Three of his brothers are actors, and a sister Nancy, a Dominican nun, tours the world in a one-woman show as St. Catherine of Sienna. "Bill had to learn how to get attention just to survive," says Murray's older brother, veteran character actor Brian Doyle-Murray. (Doyle-Murray took their grandmother's maiden name because there was already a Brian Murray in Actors' Equity.) "Obviously, he survived...
...intimate relationship with him is really something," says Hoffman. "We were getting on a plane to shoot a movie in the Dominican Republic"--Andy Garcia's directorial debut, The Lost City, due out in late 2005--"the first time we've worked together in 20 years, and I'm really looking forward to having him as my seatmate. As we sit down, he leans over and says sotto voce, 'Hope you're not the chatty type.' Then he puts on earmuffs, a blindfold and gives me his ass for the next six hours." Hoffman laughs wildly as he tells...
Newspapers in the Dominican Republic--home to Sox stars Ortiz, Pedro Martinez and Manny Ramirez--hailed EL MILAGRO POR LOS MEDIAS ROJAS. But some credit for the Red Sox miracle has to go to the Yankees--who, after building a three- game lead, forgot how to play Yankee baseball. They showed little patience at the plate and too much on the base paths--and in the case of ace closer Mariano Rivera, didn't automatically stifle the opposition. The result: a team with a $184 million payroll (the Red Sox are second, at $127 million) performed the most crushing seven...
Homeland: Dominican Republic...