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NICOLE KIDMAN (Moulin Rouge) Born: Honolulu Moved: c. 1970, age 3 "There's something about the place; it's the smell of the gum leaves. Australia's in my blood, it's in my humor...I love [Sydney's] zest for life and the openness of us Aussies." KYLIE MINOGUE (new album, Fever) Born: Melbourne, Australia! But currently lives in London, visiting home twice a year "My poor parents have three kids living about as far away from them as you can get--and they're very cool...
...Though some galleries were initially concerned that shows of Islamic art would be ill received, the opposite has been true. A Montreal museum canceled a show of Muslim artists right after the attacks but reinstated it after public outcry. Several small galleries quickly put together exhibitions, including the Honolulu Academy of Art, which had planned to open an Islamic gallery late in 2002 with work from Doris Duke's collection but rushed out an exhibition of its own works last November. And the Los Angeles County Museum of Art last week announced the acquisition of the Madina Collection, which will...
DIED. STUART ADAMSON, 43, lead singer and guitarist for the proudly unhip 1980s pop band Big Country; after hanging himself in a Honolulu hotel room. Born in the tiny Scottish mining town of Dunfermline--where he maintained homes despite pleas from his record company to relocate to London--Adamson had long battled depression and alcohol addiction...
...Holiday Inn"). Some of Berlin's coon songs offered what now seems like subversive social commentary. Beneath its jarring title and setting, the 1915 "A Pair of Ordinary Coons" could be making an early argument for people of color (unlike whites) as part of the human majority: "In Honolulu we pass as Hawaiian... And in Araby we make them think we're Arabians/ We pass through all these places/ On the faces/ Of a pair of ordinary coons...
...year partnership the duo received seven Academy Award nominations and won three. DIED. CHANG HSUEH-LIANG, 100, onetime Chinese warlord who kidnapped Nationalist leader Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek on Dec. 12, 1936 in Xi'an, forcing him into an alliance with the communists against the invading Japanese; in Honolulu. Chang spent nearly four decades under house arrest in Taiwan (see eulogy). DIED. ANNE RIDLER, 89, fluent and gifted poet, editor and translator; in Oxford. In June, Ridler, a onetime secretary to T.S. Eliot, was named Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for her services...