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...This is what the underboss of the Dawood Ibrahim syndicate, or the "D-Company," told me in September of 1999. But life took him down the opposite path. Instead of dying for his country, he was sitting in a mansion in Karachi, a guest of the enemy country, unable to return to his birthplace, afraid of being liquidated at any moment by his hosts...
...problem-solving maid in the early-50s sitcom "Beulah." In "Imitation," from the Fannie Hurst novel that has generated at least four movies, Beavers is Delilah, a single mom whose recipe for pancakes makes a fortune for her employer Bea (Claudette Colbert). Delilah is now a millionaire, sharing a mansion with Bea. Yet for her, upward mobility never gives her the notion of equality with whites; she insists on sleeping in the basement with her rebellious daughter Peola...
...Cuban gamely showed up at 6 a.m. to learn how to curl soft ice cream, then hustled to serve the 1,000 fans in line. Cuban briefly recruited basketball bad boy Dennis Rodman, inviting him to live in the guesthouse of the $15 million Cuban mansion. Rodman didn't last, either at the mansion or with the Mavericks, but Cuban calls the courtship an "experiment" worth trying...
...Hawthorne Country House, tel: (64-6) 878-0035, in Hawke's Bay, a premier winegrowing region, makes the perfect base for a wine education tour. Only a short drive from nearly 40 vineyards, the rambling Edwardian mansion features creaking floors, leaded lights and neatly tended gardens complete with croquet hoops and bunnies. The ample verandas of the five well-appointed rooms are ideal for enjoying bottled souvenirs of a day spent sampling the local vintages...
...screen violence helmer Miike Takahashi, who created last year's cult sensation Audition. Kakihara is a sado-masochistic punk gangster caught up in an underworld where dysfunction speaks louder than love. When his yakuza boss mysteriously disappears, Kakihara hunts for his abductor. In the process, he turns a mansion into a phantasmagorical torture chamber. Then he meets Ichi (Naori Omori), a schizophrenic hit man tormented by the pleasure he takes in ultraviolent killing. Director Miike obviously wants to signpost Japanese society's ills and does so with a broad and bloody brush. Ichi dispatches his victims with a large rotating...