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...Which is stronger: his love for the challenge and camaraderie of making a film or the heartache he feels when it's over? Maybe the two emotions are equally potent, since Wong makes movies that blend those two subjects: the coming together, the drifting apart. The maker of a film as splendid as 2046 should be eager to let it go, to share his treasure with the world. Instead there's an emptiness worse than postcoital or postpartum depression. That's the secret, whispered into a hole, by a man who is 60% romantic, 40% showman and 100% movie artist...
...reform efforts, Sari says, will probably be met by strikes and protests?the kind of civil unrest Yudhoyono would like to avoid. The potential wrath of the unions was on display Sept. 21 outside the High Court in central Jakarta. Hundreds of workers laid off last year from aircraft maker PT Dirgantara Indonesia raged in protest when the court rejected their claim that layoffs were conducted illegally. Nandang Rusmana, a mechanic who worked at Dirgantara for 20 years, is still unemployed more than a year after he lost his job and is borrowing money from his family to keep...
...drew criticism for shoddy work, and served more than two years in prison for tax fraud. DIED. RUSS MEYER, 82, soft-core-porn director whose work set the tone for late 20th century pop culture at its most cheerfully leering; in Los Angeles. Always a picture taker and picture maker, he was an Army cameraman who shot World War II footage; the photographer of several early Playboy centerfolds; and a soft-core Spielberg whose first feature, the nudie comedy The Immoral Mr. Teas, grossed $1 million on a $24,000 budget. In the '60s he shifted to melodramas (Faster, Pussycat...
TOTAL YOGURT Has been pulled off shelves until its Greek maker can get U.S. state inspectors to come to Greece
ECKHARD CORDES Profit Driver Sliding into the driver's seat at Mercedes in October is Cordes, 53, a 28-year veteran of parent DaimlerChrysler. The luxury-car maker has been plagued by slipping sales and quality ratings; Cordes' job is to get it back on track. He most recently ran the parent company's truck division, where he managed a remarkable turnaround by cutting costs and emphasizing profitability. Following a 2002 loss, the unit turned a $1 billion operating profit last year. With that sort of record, Cordes just might find himself as Daimler's next chairman...