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...nearly 90 years after his failed 1914-16 effort to traverse Antarctica, British explorer Ernest Shackleton has become the hottest guy to battle icebergs since Leonardo DiCaprio. Caroline Alexander has published The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition; leadership tomes explicate the explorer's lessons for middle managers. PBS has just aired Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance, which was also adapted for IMAX theaters. Now comes the A&E mini-series Shackleton (April 7, 8 p.m. E.T., and April 8, 9 p.m. E.T.)--with a Biography episode (April 8, 8 p.m. E.T.) thrown in for the compleat Shackle-phile...
There couldn't have been a more promising year for the Hong Kong Film Festival. Cinema is in full bloom throughout Asia. Post-Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Chinese films are probably the world's hottest?and Hong Kong is Chinese cinema's incandescent crucible. The good news is that the festival was a smorgasbord of experimental work from China, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea and the Philippines, much of it shot in video format, with an ultra-tight focus on youth and their contradictory (and sometimes tragic) need to belong in society and simultaneously forge individual identities. The unhappy news...
...have to understand, Schuyler Mann is one of the 15 hottest freshmen of the year,” Kropf said, referring to Fifteen Minutes’ poll last March. “He’s had extra equipment duties. We’ve tried to stick...
...Watching practice is all well and good, of course, but actual tickets were the hottest thing going: Kansas fans Tim Ballew, 30, and wife Heidi, 27, spent $3,000 for two seats on the floor four rows behind one basket. They were there to root for the Jayhawks and celebrate their one-year wedding anniversary. Not everyone was lucky enough to line up tickets ahead of time: Saturday morning, folks stood in the pouring rain buying and selling and trying to look inconspicuous. Some fans ate worms and literally got in bed with snakes and rats to win tickets from...
...cheaper electronics have enabled thousands of Taiwanese to become amateur Big Brothers, surreptitiously videotaping employees, friends and total strangers without regard for privacy or propriety. Shopowners retailing tiny spy cameras (which cost between $30 and $400) say sales jumped tenfold after the Chu Mei-feng scandal. One of the hottest toys last Christmas was a Winnie the Pooh plush doll with cameras in its eye sockets...