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...youngest-ever invitee to the ridiculously dangerous Pipe Masters. After he face-planted on a reef (an accident that left him with 150 stitches and extensive scars around his lip and forehead), Johnson made the transition into directing surf films. On "work" trips to Indonesia and Australia, he would entertain his buddies with mellow acoustic tunes, but never considered a career in music. "Because of where I grew up, music for me has always been just some guys sitting around, not really on a stage or anything," says Johnson, "but just playing down at the corner of the yard...
...Korean cinema enjoyed a brief golden age in the 1960s, when the industry churned out loads of mostly light fare to entertain a nation struggling to pull itself out of poverty. But strongman Park Chung Hee snuffed it out a decade later with tight censorship and draconian controls on production houses. Films were vapid and forgettable: even mild criticism of the government was verboten. So was anything racy: viewers didn't catch even the silhouette of a breast until 1985. "Everything was forbidden," recalls director Im Kwon Taek, who, with more than 100 movies under his belt, is considered...
...Still, the very fact that the White House and Congress are ready to seriously entertain discussion over altering immigration laws in favor of illegal migrants from Mexico signals how far the integration of the two economies and societies has progressed in recent years. Many obstacles lie ahead, and the two governments will have substantially different concerns when they get down to negotiating a new immigration deal. Still, the tenor of this week's discussions in Washington suggest a sense of common destiny and shared responsibility unparalleled in the troubled history of U.S.-Mexican relations. And that may be President...
...simply a token nod - such as President Bush-senior's offering of California Beluga Sturgeon to President Boris Yeltsin in 1992, in a menu that was otherwise more French than anything else. Similarly when the Reagan White House faced the challenge of coming up with something distinctly Canadian to entertain Brian Mulroney in 1988: Smoked salmon and shrimp mousse with dilled cucumber sauce, before an otherwise distinctly Californian fest of roast loin of veal, tarragon sauce, puree of sweet red peppers, spring asparagus, watercress and radicchio salad...
...tougher for them. Men work really hard and play five sets and everything." But John McEnroe, who spent decades dissing the women's game, now thinks they deserve the cash. "It's irrelevant if they play best of five or best of three," he says. "If the women entertain people just as much, and you're playing at the same time, we should forget about that issue, get it over with, have equal prize money and start trying to improve the sport even more...