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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...behind those impressive numbers lies a social revolution more profound than any ever seen in the Western world. Hundreds of millions of people once anchored by the certainties of guaranteed jobs and social services for life are now being cast adrift to fend for themselves in the turbulent waters of the market economy. "By closing down thousands of state enterprises that were losing money, China is creating unemployment on a scale never seen before anywhere in the world," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "That creates an enormous threat of social instability, which makes the government very insecure about its ability...
Houston did everything in its might to make Pippen comfortable. It showered him with affection, often in the form of limos, and made sure that no one in his extended family ever has to work again...
...calendar year over which the executives of big Hollywood studios--Sony, MGM, Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, etc.--just seem to salivate. This past summer, the prime time to release big-budget and sometimes quirky films, box office receipts totaled a touch over $3 billion, the biggest ever in the history of movie making. Summer is one season where the amount of hype and advertising simply inundates various forms of media; but Christmastime and the preceding period is no less intense in film circles when various movies with varying appeal play (to variable degrees of success) in theaters across...
...free spending and general consumerism of the holiday season is Anna and the King, starring Jodie Foster and international star Chow Yun Fat (A Better Tomorrow, The Killer) under the direction of Andy Tennant, who is last known for his sweet treatment of the Cinderella tale in Ever After. So, in order to entice people into theaters in the winter months, what do studios do? They advertise when most people will be sitting in theatres to hype the next big film season. So, for those who saw Star Wars: Episode I this past summer -- and judging by the $792 million...
...best known for two mediocre movies in the states, The Replacement Killers and The Corruptor). This not to say that Chow Yun Fat is not a well known commodity in some circles. Aside from Sean Connery and Steve McQueen, Chow is probably the manliest man you would ever want to meet, having collaborated with director John Woo in brutal yet poetic action films like The Killer and Hard Boiled in their native home of Hong Kong. He has not, to date, had much success in acting in English, hence the middling success of his recent forays into the North American...