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Nemo and his dad may be a lock for the next animation Oscar, and we would hate to choose between Pixar's instant classic and this French frolic. But there's no competition for the fall's most imaginative delight. In that race, Triplettes can already take its victory...
...wastes their money gambling. Kim says she cannot complain, because her mother-in-law has threatened to report her to the police if Kim bad-mouths her son. The only option is to run away. Many North Korean wives do just that, which is why some Chinese men lock up their refugee brides at night...
...when her debut album, 1999's ? Baby One More Time, sold 10 million copies (followed a year later with her 9 million-selling Oops! ... I Did It Again). Despite all that early exposure, she seems at times to have acquired not a shred of media savvy. That lip-lock with Madonna on MTV, for instance? She claims she was shocked - shocked! - by the attention it stirred up. Likewise the clamor over all those racy magazine covers (posing topless for Rolling Stone and bottomless for Esquire). "People make such a big deal out of it," she says, sounding genuinely puzzled...
...fellow he plays in Peter Weir's splendidly bracing sea epic Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. Sometimes, the actor comes off as a brute, a primitive: Crowe Magnon Man. So we gladly cede to others the honor of carousing or canoodling with him. We might lock up our daughters at his approach. We would not care to be within striking distance of his coiled wrath...
...more in-depth info about wi-fi home networking--including ways to lock out snoops and bandwidth thieves--check out the FAQs at www.time.com/wireless