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...wrangling Brando was anything but simple. When the Method-acting legend showed up to shoot his first scene, he was in full makeup (eye shadow, rosy cheeks, the works), and his initial performance as the gay Max looked something like Barbara Bush doing her best Truman Capote impression. "He had earnestly worked on his character," says Oz diplomatically, "but my tone was more reality based." In take after take, Oz asked Brando to "bring it down." Brando obliged, but told the director...
...CHUANZHI Chairman, Legend Holdings...
...asked by his boss at the Chinese Academy of Sciences to go xia hai--literally, "jump into the sea"--abandon research and launch a computer company. Last month that company, Legend Holdings, partnered with AOL Time Warner (parent of TIME) to expand Internet service in China. With Legend granted a 51% stake in the venture, Liu, 56, appears poised to lead the opening of a massive Net market...
...celebrity after 108 days of headlines and hype?apparently with no demands met?only added to his aura and provided grist to rumors of secret government payoffs. In a gripping new book, Veerappan, The Untold Story (Penguin Books India; 312 pages), journalist Sunaad Raghuram tries to separate the folk legend from the callous outlaw who once reportedly murdered a gang member's child for fear that its cries would alert police who were stalking...
...possibilities are, in fact, twins - the dark and light sides of the Western intellectual quest. You see the twinning in the Faust legend. In the Medieval reading of it, Faust is damned to hell for his pact to obtain supernatural powers of knowledge from the devil - an act of human encroachment upon divine prerogatives. But (as Roger Shattuck points out in his splendid book "Forbidden Knowledge"), the Enlightenment gave Faust an opposite reading. The German dramatist G.E. Lessing's Faust, in the mid-eighteenth century, was not damned for his pact with the devil, but, on the contrary, saved, because...