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...hand to take pictures and help safeguard historical accuracy. Jamie Foxx studied tapes of Ali's late, drug-addled corner man Drew (Bundini) Brown. Jon Voight, who last summer hid himself under layers of prosthetics as Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Pearl Harbor, again endured hours each day in the makeup chair, this time disguising himself as Howard Cosell. The witty verbal sparring between Ali and Cosell provides some of the movie's most entertaining moments. "If you talk to Ali today," says Voight, "the first thing that will happen in response to the name Howard Cosell is a smile...
...also provides some fun moments. One of my co-corespondents was surprised when a guard pulled her cosmetics case from her backpack, took out two lipsticks, and twisted them both up, either satisfying himself that they weren't explosives or that their colors really did work with her makeup...
...Friday night flight from Hong Kong to Taipei is atwitter with excitement. It's full, but not with the factory managers and motherboard sales reps you might expect. Crammed into the aisle seat beside my girlfriend, a young woman is touching up her makeup. Meeting someone special? "I'm seeing friends," says Coco, a 27-year-old clerk in a Hong Kong jewelry store. She snaps her compact shut and leans over to confide with a broad smile, "We're going...
...latest ruckus involves the makeup of the commission itself. The dispute centers around Peter Kirsanow, an intense Cleveland labor lawyer with a smooth-shaven head and Salvador Dali moustache. In December George Bush appointed Kirsanow, the former head of the conservative Center for New Black Leadership, to fill the seat of Victoria Wilson, a liberal former book publisher who is best known for editing the vampire novels of Anne Rice. The move threatened liberal Mary Frances Berry's control of the commission: with Wilson seated, there are five liberals and three conservatives; Kirsanow would even the votes at four each...
...already tried. On her second day, after instruction from Mama San on how to apply makeup and satisfy a client, a drunken Bangkok businessman beat her when she complained he was being too rough. She fled when she was released from the hospital. "I went to the temple," she says, pointing to the golden stupas on a hill high above the eastern outskirts of Mae Sai. "Mama San paid the police to come and arrest me. They held me there with only bread and water for three days. After that I was too afraid to run away. Mama San knows...