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...rejecting all four of his ballot initiatives on Nov. 8, Shi Wa Xin Ge was mobbed by the Chinese public on whose minds the verdict of California voters on matters such as tenure for public-school teachers did not weigh heavily. Schwarzenegger's action flicks were among the first Hollywood blockbusters that made it to China courtesy of bootleg videotapes, and the nation rewarded the Austrian-born actor by hosting a week-long Arnold Schwarzenegger Film Festival in 2000-the first and only Chinese event of its kind honoring a Western movie star...
...Certainly, Schwarzenegger will need all of his charm when he shifts the trip's focus from selling Californian products-think of all the Napa Valley wine that the Chinese could quaff!-to convincing China to combat the rampant piracy of Hollywood films and Silicon Valley software. On Thursday, the Governor will attend a premiere of the newest Harry Potter movie in Shanghai, although pirated copies of the film are already widely available in the city...
...fourth Indiana Jones movie and adapt The Da Vinci Code. Instead, inspired by an anecdote about an oil lobbyist in See No Evil, a memoir by former CIA officer Robert Baer, Gaghan decided to make a complex, journalistic movie about the politics of crude. "It's rare in Hollywood to get the chance to work on something that you actually care about," says Gaghan. "The tragedy of the place is all these talented people trying to get excited about stuff they themselves would only view at gunpoint...
...Gaghan did what everyone in Hollywood does--lunch. Sitting across from Baer for the first time, at a Santa Monica restaurant called Pedals ("A little fey for a high-level spook meeting," says Gaghan) in 2002, he sensed that the ex-spy, who was once accused of trying to arrange the assassination of Saddam Hussein, was far better movie material than his book. As it happened, Baer, who speaks Farsi and Arabic, was a willing conduit into the culture and characters of the Middle East. "Summer was ending, and I had to take my daughter back to boarding school...
DIED. SHEREE NORTH, 72, blond bombshell of 1950s Hollywood; of complications from surgery; in Los Angeles. Groomed to replace the flighty Marilyn Monroe, North did just that in 1955's How to Be Very, Very Popular, and later danced with Harold Lang in the Broadway musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale (top). But the glamour girl's insistence on aging naturally led to memorable roles on TV's The Mary Tyler Moore Show, as Lou Grant's savvy lady friend, and as Kramer's mother on Seinfeld...