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Each bunco party is as different as the women playing it. Most parties rotate hosting duties and all include food, but the fare can run from a lavish meal complete with china and linen to a potluck buffet. Some adopt a theme for each month's meeting, like a haunted house with all the players wearing Halloween costumes...
...members of East Timor's Elite. Prime Minister Alkatiri?who led the effort to make Portuguese the national language even though only a fraction of Timorese speak it?belongs to this class, and his ministers have come under attack from less privileged compatriots who think their lifestyle too lavish. A few days before the riots, Gusmao himself launched a withering attack on the administration, calling it incompetent and uncaring. "We cannot justify our situation simply because we are a new government," he told TIME. "We must be more responsible, and show people we are doing something...
...rated PG not so much to scare away little kids (nothing gamy here) as to alert teenage boys that there's enough gaudy action in the classic cartoon format to keep them happy. This space-traveler version of Treasure Island--replete with flying galleons and intergalactic pirates--splashes lavish special effects on a colorful palette without forfeiting attention to character detail. Example: the movie's protean robot as voiced by Martin Short is the most complex, delirious cartoon sideman since Robin Williams' Genie in Aladdin. Directors Ron Clements and John Musker (The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules) take a while...
...already developing a follow-up franchise based on Philip Pullman's critically acclaimed fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials, about the journey of an adolescent girl and boy through alternative worlds inhabited by witches, angels and armored polar bears. Late next year the Sci-Fi Channel plans to air a lavish production of two of Ursula K. LeGuin's Earthsea novels, A Wizard of Earthsea and The Tombs of Atuan. The movie of C.S. Lewis' beloved Chronicles of Narnia is in development with Andrew Adamson, who co-directed the animated hit Shrek, a more comic medieval fantasy. Miramax will shortly begin...
...Iwasaki became the most famous and sought-after geisha of her day. She worked steadily, refusing to take a single day off for five years, and soon developed a following of customers who paid top dollar for the privilege of seeing her strum the shamisen at lavish parties held at ochaya, or teahouses. In her heyday in the 1960s, she was earning $500,000 a year, and her face adorned everything from posters to shopping bags. Iwasaki entertained world leaders and assorted celebrities, including Prince Charles, who scrawled his name?uninvited?on one of her favorite fans, and fashion designer...