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...largest metropolis, whose new book Phantom Shanghai was published last month. Many of the historic buildings that Girard documents-forlorn carcasses cowering below towers of concrete and glass-have already been demolished. Understanding this lends the photos a nostalgic resonance, a sense that we are witnessing what novelist William Gibson, in his foreword to the book, calls "the actual vanishing, the hideous 21st-century urban hat trick...
Australian Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews has refused to allow rapper and ex-felon Snoop Dogg into Oz. "He doesn't seem the sort of bloke we want in this country," Andrews told local radio. Thus Down Under remains a peaceable haven for gentler souls like Russell Crowe and Mel Gibson. SCORE...
...gathering before he chopped his way to victory at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297. But the American high school students here on a spring afternoon 710 years later are more interested in the 4-m-tall sandstone statue in the monument's parking lot. It depicts Mel Gibson as Wallace in the 1995 movie Braveheart, his face contorted in mid-battle...
...only the locals were as impressed. "Someone knocked his nose off just recently," says an assistant in the gift shop. In fact, the statue has been repeatedly vandalized. Many Scots cringe at the tribute to Gibson's movie, but the number of visitors to the monument almost doubled the year after the film was released, and the Scottish National Party (SNP) smelled a political opportunity: it handed out leaflets featuring Gibson's image to exiting moviegoers, hoping to fuel its campaign for Scotland to secede from the United Kingdom...
...context" of his larger life, including the formidable work for sick children he does through his Imus Ranch charity. But it's not Imus Ranch he broadcasts from 20 hours a week. You can't totally separate the lives of celebrities from their work - it didn't excuse Gibson that he attacked the Jews in his free time - but finally what determines who can make what jokes is the context of their work: the tone of their acts, the personas they present, the vehicles they create for their work...