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...teacher stopped class so we could run outside and look at rare rainbow-colored clouds. On this hill, we enacted elaborate pageants for Michelmas, a feast day the rest of the world forgot in the middle ages. The whole school watched a vast papier-mâché dragon, animated by the entire sixth grade, vanquished by sword-wielding first graders...
...scene that would bring Fowler to a rebel leader's camp in the Vietnam of 1953. Suddenly Noyce shouted and pointed at a tree line: "Somebody do something about those kids!" Two boys had climbed some bamboo trees and were swaying at the top, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon-style. Very cute, but it ruined the shot. A translator pleaded for the children to come down. Noyce folded his hands on top of his bowed head. Then he looked up and pointed again. "There's another one behind them, in that banana tree." At least the kids weren't snipers...
...frog legs for $3-$5 per plate. Cirebon's other treasures can be found in a pair of palaces built centuries ago by its Sultans. These are heaped with kitsch: French chandeliers, Javanese spears and a bizarre chariot comprising the body of an elephant, the head of a dragon, flapping wings and radial tires. The dusty exhibits can be comical, but in little-visited Cirebon, the tourist must be alert to art all around. Even at the palaces, there are hidden treasures: antique blue delft plates from former ruling power the Netherlands. Once they were for dining, now they decorate...
While preparing for her Red Dragon role, Watson hung out with a blind woman. For Punch-Drunk Love, she familiarized herself with her co-star's work. "I sat down and watched the Adam Sandler oeuvre," says Watson. "It's quite a delicious thought. I'm in London watching Big Daddy and all that, and Adam's in Los Angeles watching Breaking the Waves. I do enjoy him on film. I just think he's got something that's so lovable...
Next up, Watson will produce a film she co-wrote with her husband, screenwriter Jack Waters. At the moment, she's back home in London, appearing in the Donmar Warehouse productions of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. "After Red Dragon, the biggest, most Hollywood-est movie I've ever been in, this opportunity came up," she says. "To be able to play Viola and Sonya in the same breath--it's good." Best of all, she doesn't have to share a dressing room with a cannibal. --By Jess Cagle