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...Flick through the pages of celebrity magazines like Hello! and OK!, and there'll often be an Aga somewhere behind all that lip gloss. Its cachet is gold-plated: royal country houses are equipped with Agas, Mel Gibson is a fan, and Tony Blair used to have an Aga before moving to No. 10 Downing Street. The stove has even given its name to a genre of contemporary fiction: "Aga sagas" are about modern families whose lives ebb and flow through Aga-centered kitchens...
...market. There are as many as 100 rivals in this slugfest, ranging from market leaders Hi-Tech Wealth, Meijin and Legend Computers, to manufacturers better known for selling refrigerators. Their tactics are predatory. In brutal marketing campaigns with names like Plan A (inspired by a popular Jackie Chan action flick), they have cut prices by a gut-wrenching 40%. "I'm the worst one when it comes to challenging all the manufacturers with price slashing," Meijin founder Sher Tak Fa boasts with bravado typical in this rough-and-tumble industry. "I want to show my power...
...years ago, he found a project that promised to be just the ticket: The Score, a crime flick that opens this week. And he didn't just get a cast, he got a Mount Rushmore of actors: Marlon Brando as Max, an elderly homosexual crook orchestrating the biggest heist of his career; Robert De Niro as an aging thief ready to retire from his life of crime; and Edward Norton as a smart young punk eager to begin...
...girl. Choi Chang Yeop, a 31-year-old freelance business lecturer, invested $750 in the film Jakarta and is among the new movie minimoguls. He spends hours on the Web posting glowing reviews of his film, a black comedy about bank robbers. He urges fellow Netizens to see the flick and has joined a Web-based club whose members meet off-line to exchange tips. Not that he thought the film was that great. "What can I say?" says Choi, "I've got a stake in it." He expects his fund to yield a profit of more than 30% from...
...phenomenon began late last year with the the blockbuster action flick Joint Security Area. More than 400 small investors put up $75,000 through an online fund and then watched their money double from ticket sales and other revenue. That caught the attention of stock market punters smarting from slumping share prices. When a similar online fund for Friends debuted in March, investors snapped up all shares in less than a minute. Friends might have been huge anyway - it has tapped a vein of nostalgia for a simpler era. But giving moviegoers a stake also helped. When the film flopped...