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Kidnapped from the Liberian jungle, Cheeta grew up fast in the libidinous jungle of Hollywood, hanging out with the alpha males - Kirk and Clark and Doug Jr. - and jostling for the attention of the dominant females - Kate and Marlene and Bette. He didn't stint with the booze and the Lucky Strikes, lost his virginity to a bonobo (a cruel joke played by Charlie Chaplin) and snorted "star-powder" (a homeopathic remedy, they told him). And despite his star billing, Cheeta had to put up with some pretty cutting social prejudice. At one typically drunken lunch party, Cheeta recalls, "Sylvia...
...vocalist Zhang Shouwang from Beijing alternative rockers Carsick Cars. It was with White that she caught the ear of Einstürzende Neubauten's singer-writer-multi-instrumentalist Blixa Bargeld. The duo plans to release a debut album later this year, under Bargeld's aegis. "Everything is coming very fast, young people are very open-minded and, in some ways, the scene lacks direction," she says. "Avant-garde music here needs time, but in a couple of years, things are going to be good...
...1980s, when Kingsmill was an easily distracted Sydney marketing student, a go-to item in his wardrobe was a T shirt declaring "Live Fast, Die Young in a Nice Pair of Shorts." It was one of Mambo's more benign items. Still to come were Mombassa's "Australian Jesus at the Football" and his design protesting plans for an expanded nuclear facility at Sydney's Lucas Heights: "Mr and Mrs Sydney would prefer not to have a nuclear reactor situated halfway up their arse...
...every reason to be scared, because financial services have a record of retrenching fast in a crisis. And the business in some sectors has evaporated. The volume of mergers and acquisitions, for example, is down about two-thirds from its peak in 2006, while the public stock offerings that made the London Stock Exchange an international shooting star have fizzled. Given the role played by arcane financial engineering in triggering the current crisis--the troubles at AIG, for example, stem largely from its freewheeling London financial-products division--the future looks especially bleak for people working in structured finance...
...released eight films as a director, including the Oscar-winning Million Dollar Baby and a feature-length documentary, Piano Blues. On Christmas Day there'll be another movie, Gran Torino, which he stars in as well as directing. He couldn't do this if he didn't work fast (and relatively cheap). Screenwriters love him; if he likes a script, he shoots it without demanding a million rewrites. Actors love him too; if he likes Take One, he prints it and goes on to the next scene. Decisiveness is fine, but it raises the question: What does it take...