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...Great Britain recognized Tsang with its ultimate vote of confidence—Queen Elizabeth II knighted Tsang as Sir Donald in 1997. This honor came just after Great Britain appointed Tsang as the first Chinese Financial Secretary in 1995, after 150 years of British incumbents...
DIED. MARY ELIZABETH CRONKITE, 89, wife of former CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite, known as Betsy; of complications from cancer; in New York City. As employees of radio station KCMO in Kansas City, Mo., the pair met on Betsy's third day at work when they stood near each other to read advertising copy on the air. The couple would have celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary this month...
...drink, have sex, drive around, and boy do they talk, talk, talk, but when it comes to putting in an honest day's hard labor, suddenly, whoops! It's time for a scene change, or a flashback, or a few pages of deep internal monologue. That's what makes Elizabeth Gaffney's Metropolis (Random House; 461 pages) and Thomas Kelly's Empire Rising (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 390 pages) so unusual. They don't push work into the margins: Their characters actually get stuff done...
...still struck him as the center of the creative universe. With a virtual monopoly on budgets and technical skill, L.A. was clearly the place to be for a foreign director with a single art-house hit, Bandit Queen. He was an immediate success. In 1998, Kapur directed Blanchett in Elizabeth, about the life of England's 16th century monarch. The movie was nominated for seven Oscars, winning one. Its magic, says Blanchett, lay in Kapur's slightly demented reinvention of period drama. "Elizabeth could have been incredibly musty," she says, "but Shekhar brought this East-West sensibility...
...retain creative control. There were meetings, meetings, meetings, when what I needed was to pay more attention to the script." It's not a mistake Kapur intends to repeat: his Mandela movie is already on its third writer and seventh rewrite. Perhaps more significantly, after the grandeur of Elizabeth and the scale of The Four Feathers, Water is budgeted at a slim $20 million-despite an all-star team that includes writer Andrew Niccol (The Truman Show), designer John Myhre (Chicago) and, for the score, Bollywood maestro A.R. Rahman and Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics. "The same film in Hollywood...