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...biggest market. Tokyo-based distributor Cinequanon paid $1 million for Shiri, the first Korean film to open nationwide in Japan, where it sold 1.2 million tickets and pulled in an impressive $15 million. Now Korean directors hope to continue to cash in on Japan's interest. Friends' heartthrob Jang Dong Gun is filming futuristic spy-action flick 2009 Lost Memories with a Japanese co-star, Toru Nakamura, and three-quarters of the dialogue will be in Japanese. Korean producer Tube Entertainment expects 2009 to earn more in Japan than in Korea...
DIED. FRANCES HORWICH, 93, educator and kindly bell-ringing host of the 1950s children's show Ding Dong School; in Chicago. During the half-hour program, which paved the way for Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, "Miss Frances" taught arts and crafts, told stories and offered simple lessons. She won a Peabody Award...
...favorite Western poisons are available. Also on tap: the deafening cacophony of bright young things, local and foreign, that is part of the scene from Tokyo to Toronto. To be part of it, call (86-10) 6416-5615. Too tame? Pop around another corner to Club Vogue, on Gongti Dong Lu, where the state-of-the-art sound system has channeled the dubby deckwork of some of the world's leading DJs. The club is a favorite among visiting out-of-town celebrities. Subdued souls should pick a weekday night, when Vogue offers a passable dinner menu and live jazz...
...government launched a tax investigation of 23 newspapers and broadcast companies. The result was announced late last month: according to the government, a whopping $390 million in back taxes and penalties is owed, half from the country's top three dailies?the Chosun Daily, the JoongAng Daily and the Dong-a Daily?which are known for seldom having anything sweet to say about the President...
...consumer of pornography whose conversations with the female staff were laced with sexually suggestive remarks. It is moot whether that constituted sexual harassment. But Republicans, by their vociferous denials, suggested that demonstrating the first would prove the other. To prevent a Thomas defeat, they had to show that Long Dong Silver was a figment of Hill's X-rated imagination...