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...years he kept Boris Yeltsin in his sights. But now the President's former bodyguard and top adviser, ALEXANDER KORZHAKOV is taking aim at his ex-boss. In Boris Yeltsin: From Dawn to Dusk, he depicts Yeltsin as a vodka-swilling wreck of a man. (He's even selling off the family album--his snapshots of Yeltsin hanging out in Sochi.) One unsubstantiated secret he claims: when Yeltsin sent in tanks against his foes in Russia's White House in 1993, he celebrated before the battle was won in what Korzhakov says was his usual fashion: by getting thoroughly soused...
...goes well, not at Tarantino's. The director made numerous stumbles in the wake of Pulp Fiction, including an embarrassing guest-host gig on Saturday Night Live, a series of awkward acting efforts, and participation in the flop 1995 anthology Four Rooms. Although the 1996 horror flick From Dusk Till Dawn (directed by pal Robert Rodriguez), which Tarantino wrote, produced and appeared in, was a moderate hit, speculation whirled in the industry about whether his directing career had stalled. Miramax provided a jump start by buying the rights to four Leonard novels...
...rising pollution, typhoons and the practice of land reclamation, houses the world's busiest container port, with more than 100 ships arriving daily. Then, as the late hours of the afternoon arrive, the Indian fortune tellers, the joggers and California-style bladers, the myriad of couples waiting for dusk to come, all provide picturesque detail to the majestic scenario of the bay and Hong Kong Island's towering skyscrapers and elegant buildings. But the real magic lies elsewhere, in the labyrinth of streets and cavernous meadows where the multifaceted realities of the metropolis reveal their enigmas. From...
...Hamsher's gonzo take on NBK's evolution offers an insider's view of show-biz egos. Among the choice bits: details about Stone's stoned-out mushroom trip in the desert and Tarantino's close connection with Miramax, the company that released his hits Pulp Fiction and From Dusk till Dawn. Writes Hamsher: "Quentin had been running his mouth off for months, telling people that he made all the decisions at Miramax, and that when he snapped his fingers, HARVEY WEINSTEIN jumped." A spokesperson for Tarantino says he has read some of the book, and many of the anecdotes...
...what of second and third and last? Lingering long in my mind will be the physical beauty of Harvard. During my first year, I used to walk through the Old Yard at dusk to catch the first lights as they gleamed from centuries-old dorm windows. These beacons provided comfort and an excursion for the mind: John F. Kennedy '40 lived behind one of these windows, and Ralph Waldo Emerson another, and Quentin Compson another, in William Faulkner's fiction and the collective Harvard consciousness...