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Wedding Crashers, written by Steve Faber and Bob Fisher and savvily directed by David Dobkin, has Summer Hit engraved all over it, like an invitation to the marriage of The Wedding Singer and Old School. It glamorizes the men's predation by making them charmers who have a great time, and give one too: at receptions Jeremy makes balloon animals for the kids, John schmoozes with the seniors. It conjures up a convenient villain in Claire's boyfriend Sach (Bradley Cooper), a shark-faced sociopath who fools everyone in the family but no one in the audience. It offers...
...discuss buying property together again?this time, in Shanghai. China's economy is growing at about 9.5% a year and Shanghai is the epicenter of the boom, yet apartments there still cost far less than in Hong Kong, Tokyo or New York. That gap will close, says Marc Faber, an emerging-markets expert who writes a newsletter called the Gloom, Boom and Doom Report. "Eventually," he predicts, "Shanghai property prices will be higher than prices in New York...
...York mistake: joining the herd moments before it runs off the cliff. But with Chinese incomes surging and well-paid expats flocking to Shanghai, I have little doubt that luxury apartments in prime locations are a great bet if you hold on to them long enough. As Faber says, "You may overpay on a short-term basis, but real estate in China makes sense in the long term." Of course, the same was true of New York. If we'd held on to that dud apartment for a few more years, it would now be worth about three times what...
...three explore the quintessence of Englishness. After the stately, hugely successful The Remains of the Day, which spawned the 1993 movie, Ishiguro went wild; his next two novels - The Unconsoled and When We Were Orphans - subjected their characters to chaos, violence and injustice. His latest, Never Let Me Go (Faber and Faber; 263 pages), is crueler still. And so who is this author: English intellectual or Japanese sensei? "I felt half English and half Japanese for a long time," says Ishiguro, relaxing in the small cinema that's the pride of his suburban London home. In the corner are three...
...bodies (Dustin Hoffman and Alan Rickman are tipped to star). As Hollywood reinvigorates its product with injections of European culture, Tykwer's compatriots are relaxing and becoming more catholic in their approach to filmmaking. Volker Schlöndorff, the director of such classics as The Tin Drum and Homo Faber, whose latest, The Ninth Day, is about a Luxembourg priest in a Nazi concentration camp, interprets this as a sign of confidence. "For years young German directors have tried to make genre movies that just imitate the French," he says. "But over the past three or four years they have...