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...have people and computers, we can do it." Reached via a Malaysian cell-phone number, Tan says he's an ethnic Chinese in his early 30s who travels a lot and created his vast movie collection by copying DVDs. "I can get great movies in L.A.," he says. "Hollywood Video, Blockbuster. 20/20 has a very good, very complete collection." His site loses money, he claims, though as many as 3,000 films a day are sold on it. The problem is the cost of his Internet connection and his employees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond Hollywood's Reach | 2/18/2002 | See Source »

...sees it, Movie88.com is doing Hollywood a favor. "These Internet movies do not compare with the quality you see in the cinema," he says. "You watch it online, and if the movie is good, you go to the theater or go buy the DVD. We are promoting these Hollywood movies and not getting a single cent from the companies. They are just yelling at us." The ingrates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond Hollywood's Reach | 2/18/2002 | See Source »

Warnings won't scare off the folks in Hollywood. "I live in a town completely devoted to vanity," says writer-actress Carrie Fisher, 45, who has been Botoxing for five years. "It irons out the wrinkles. You'd never know I was manic-depressive." Danny Bonaduce, 42, a child actor (The Partridge Family) turned co-host of The Other Half, was accompanying his wife to a Botox session when her doctor asked him if he wanted some. "Three days after I did it, Dick Clark said to me, 'You look 10 years younger!' With Botox, people can't really tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smile--You're On Botox! | 2/18/2002 | See Source »

Five years ago, Kirk Douglas was living the life of a Hollywood screen legend. But Douglas, then 80, suffered a debilitating stroke. He tells the story of his journey back to health in his new book, My Stroke of Luck (Morrow). He discussed his recovery with TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Kirk Douglas, A Lust For Life | 2/18/2002 | See Source »

...things start to look familiar as you turn onto Lebuh Armenian, it's not d?j? vu. Scenes from the recent Hollywood flop Anna and the King were filmed among the shophouses of this quiet street. The humble blue shophouse at No. 120 is where Sun Yat-sen, the founding father of modern China, planned much of the Chinese Revolution from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Penang Goes Forward to the Past | 2/18/2002 | See Source »

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