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...Even when no one else understands you, this car probably will. The redesigned Acura TL (around $35,000) has HandsFreeLink, a service for Bluetooth wireless phones. When you step into the 3.2L V6 ride, the system searches for your mobile phone. Once it makes contact, a phone icon pops up on the dash; to make a call, you just speak a name or number. The navigation system is also voice-operated and recognizes 293 different commands. For those who would rather listen than talk, the car comes standard with an ELS Surround audio system that pumps out DVD audio...
...call-it-a-remake of one of the country's longest-running and best-loved film series, and which opened last Saturday in Japan, Kitano is facing the biggest challenge of his moviemaking life: stepping into the shoes of an actor who is every inch the celluloid icon that Kitano is. Imagine replacing Sean Connery if he'd been in every Bond film, and you have some idea of what faces Kitano in taking on the mantle of the late Shintaro Katsu, the actor who played Zatoichi, the blind swordsman, from 1962 to 1989. To succeed, Kitano must make audiences...
...much of the film's focus. Japan's king of cool, Kitano, and its crown prince of cool, Asano, had already served in a samurai drama of a different sort, Nagisa Oshima's gay-themed Gohatto. Unhappy with Asano's fighting scenes in that film, Kitano put the indie icon through three months of extra sword training before filming began. "I put a lot of energy into Asano's scenes," says Kitano. "I gave him all the cool ways of withdrawing his sword and ended up with nothing to do myself." The energy pays off. As a samurai...
...When his family asked whether he would prefer burial or cremation, his response was, "Surprise me." Hope passionately supported the U.S. all his life, even though he was British born. His dedication to entertaining the troops in the field was legendary. Hope was the 20th century's comic icon. Philip Hartley York, England...
What of Orzolek's and Joy's new It girl status? Says Joy: "I ring up my mum and say, 'They're calling Karen a fashion icon, and she's got a fake mink hanging around her neck with button eyes!' It's stupid stuff." --By George Epaminondas