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...DIED. KIM HUNTER, 79, actress best remembered for her visceral, sexually charged Oscar-winning portrayal of Stella in the movie version of A Streetcar Named Desire, a role she originated on Broadway with Marlon Brando; in New York City. Blacklisted in the 1950s, Hunter did not see her film career take off again until she donned a monkey suit to play a chimpanzee in Planet of the Apes (1968). "The only thing of me that came through was my eyeballs," she said. Still, she repeated the role in two sequels...
...festival. Now in its 27th year, TIFF has succeeded by its size, which is less boutique than warehouse (this year's 10-day event showed an indigestible 455 hours of films), and by its persistent good humor. Even the occasional eccentrics?like the tough guy at a screening of Kim Tae Gyun's Volcano High who was moved to shout, "Korean movies rule!"?show more cheer than menace. There are no tiffs at TIFF. "Nice" is a compliment Torontonians don't care for, but until they start mistreating the film professionals who come here from across North America, Europe...
...border, in a symbolic step that Seoul said would "lay a bridge of reconciliation." Ceremonies to mark the start of construction were held on both sides of the 4-km-wide, landmined buffer zone that has divided communist North and capitalist South since the Korean War ended in 1953. Kim Suk Soo, South Korea's Prime Minister-designate, said the rail links would allow the two Koreas to build a "single economic community," reviving the North's ailing economy and helping the way to reunification of the two states. EARTH Upside Downside The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica...
...DIED. KIM HUNTER, 79, American actress whose portrayal of Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire won her an Oscar in 1951; in New York City. Hunter also appeared in three Planet of the Apes movies as chimpanzee psychiatrist Dr. Zira...
...NOMINATED. KIM SUK SOO, 69, former South Korean Supreme Court judge, to be the country's Prime Minister; in Seoul. His bid needs the approval of the opposition-controlled parliament, which recently rejected President Kim Dae Jung's first two nominees to the largely ceremonial post...