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...cervical cancer. (In 2000, her sister Ann, who had performed with her in a childhood act, died of ovarian cancer.) Flanked by a phalanx of stars, including Chan and Yeoh, she told her fans: "Please don't worry about me. Watch me win this war." She threw herself a lavish, tearful 40th birthday party and, ever defiant, prepared for a role in Zhang Yimou's next film, House of Flying Daggers. "I realized she would never surrender to the devil of the disease," Zhang told Time. "To her, this film wasn't just a job but her ultimate struggle...
...knew that Howard Dean was such a sugar-tongued swain? Al Gore's televised "I do" last week (not to be confused with Trista and Ryan's more lavish and much higher-rated nuptials) was the culmination of a secret but ardent yearlong courtship by Dean. Yes, it may be a marriage of convenience, but the hushed backroom cell-phone calls, the clandestine visits, the little apercus of agreement on global warming are all part of a modern political romance novel. Apparently the doctor has a bedside manner after all. But the relationship did not really get serious until Gore...
...through multiple communities. Luna left a wife and two young sons. He had made good friends at every stop on his Horatio Alger--style rise from his South Bronx youth to law school to a fine clerkship to his last, prestigious post. Reggie Shuford, a former roommate, offered typically lavish praise: "He was just the nicest guy you would want to meet--sincere, compassionate, charismatic, engaging, interested, interesting, devoted to his family and friends, loyal to them, hardworking, intelligent, charming, straightforward. He was as good as they come." Vowed Luna's boss, U.S. Attorney Thomas DiBiagio: "We will find...
...windows of his childhood bedroom, apparently to save on heating bills. (Burton grew up in Burbank, Calif.--not a notoriously difficult place to heat a home.) The second Burton myth is that his mind is still trapped in the eremitic universe of that darkened bedroom. Evidence includes his lavish re-creations of '60s pop trifles (Batman, Mars Attacks! and Planet of the Apes) as well as more personal films (Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood) that center on misunderstood emotional savants with a likeness to a certain director...
...enduring images of the race, idealistic Roh supporters took to the streets to collect donations and hand out colorful piggy banks to individual voters. The message of the fund-raising drive was obvious: Roh would answer to the people, not to the big corporations that purchase influence through lavish campaign contributions. He won the election, in part by promising to close down Seoul's merry-go-round of government corruption and bribery scandals...