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...Unpredictable Hero Hooray for Johnny Depp! I read every word of your story about "Hollywood's most unusual star" [March 22]. In Platoon, which was shot in the Philippines, Depp played a small but moving role as a Vietnamese-speaking G.I. who perishes in a firefight. Many of us fortysomethings, who were yuppies during the Philippines' turbulent 1980s, grew up watching the young Depp. We admired him for being rebellious, idealistic and nonconformist yet totally committed to his craft. Even back then, Depp had something special. Raul H. Dado Vientiane, Laos...
...case forcing a publisher to remove a photograph from the cover of a fictional thriller. Why? Because Schröder thinks it looks too much like him. Publisher Betzel Verlag says it has recalled copies of The End of the Chancellor - The Final Shot. In the tale, the pharmacist hero shoots a German Chancellor he blames for his business bankruptcy. A spokeswoman for Betzel says Schröder is never mentioned in the novel; at issue was a small keyhole-type photo on the cover showing just an ear, an eye and some hair. Despite all the fuss...
...national hero - an elementary school dropout who started out by selling doughnuts - views his sudden fame with relative nonchalance. "People look at me the same way," he says. "There's a little difference, but it shouldn't matter." He insists he's still the same Manny who used to box in Manila for peanuts, even if his next fight is likely to earn him at least $1 million. Still, it's hard to avoid noticing the signs of Pacquiao's newfound wealth. Today, hanging out in his rented apartment in the capital, Pac-Man is wearing two fat gold watches...
Zhang Yimou is China's most celebrated director. His films Hero, Raise the Red Lantern and Ju Dou were all nominated for Best Foreign-Language Film Oscars. His latest project, House of Flying Daggers, is a big-budget martial-arts epic in which Andy Lau co-stars. Zhang, 52, spoke with TIME's Neil Gough at his editing studio in Beijing...
...sentences. As voters get to know him better, they may see in his life, his choices and his principles a more complicated picture than Bush presents and one that the Republicans are sure to caricature. Kerry is a hunter who favors gun control, a Vietnam War hero who came home to protest the war, a former prosecutor who opposes the death penalty except in terrorism cases. His record is, as they say, a target-rich environment...