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...training camp, Gazza, who's been brought on as a player-coach for a reported $500,000 this season, has led his ragged side to a win over a Guangdong third-division team in a preseason friendly. On the pitch, it's easy to pick out the Englishman: he's the only one with a red face and hairy arms. "Growing up, Gascoigne was my hero," says 22-year-old teammate Li Zheng. "But in person, he looks a lot older than he does on TV." The other teammates don't know exactly what to make of Gazza, either...
...officials also know that the potential for out-of-control partying is that much higher with Gazza's drinking buddies in town. Already, the first day after his father and friend showed up, Gascoigne drags a little in practice. "He needs to work harder," mutters an assistant coach. The Englishman runs by, red faced and slightly out of breath. When a younger teammate passes him, Gazza cheers and slaps him a high five. His mouth is curved into a smile, but his eyes are not quite happy. Redemption, he knows, comes in the strangest of places. But in faraway China...
...Hannah and Her Sisters, The Cider House Rules). But the Quiet American citation is richly earned. Even Caine might think he deserves, if not an Oscar, a medal of honor for doing justice to Graham Greene's 1955 novel and tunneling into the murky life of its protagonist, the Englishman Thomas Fowler. "The role had an extreme degree of difficulty," he says, "like in the Olympics. It was putting across all sides of a character without going outside to hit on it, just with looks and pauses." He speaks of the part with a drama student's zeal...
Only once every year or two does a debut album hit the streets fully-formed, charting a new direction from its predecessors. Even more rarely is the inventiveness maintained for more than a few standout tracks. What a blessing then is cocky Englishman Mike Skinner, aka The Streets, and his debut album Original Pirate Material. Blending elements of rap, spoken word, two-step garage and enough attitude to start a personal clothing line, Original Pirate Material is exactly the sort of album we’ve learned not to expect...
...make the movie, Pollack the American?and Noyce the Australian, Caine the Englishman, Fraser the Canadian and an international army of technicians led by Aussie picture-poet Christopher Doyle behind the camera?had to drift back to Vietnam. Again there were white men giving orders to yellow men, car bombs in a Saigon square, dangerous assignations in the jungle. The crew shut down Ho Chi Minh City's busiest square for a week, transforming it into the cyclo-filled Saigon of colonial days. They did the same a month later in Hanoi's Old Quarter, and then...