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...boat trip with amusing commentary by a real Thames waterman, choose a Red Rover service (1) from Waterloo Millennium (London Eye) pier for the Tate Modern and the Tower of London (44 20 7740 0400; citycruises.com...
...Hayward art gallery (4), overshadowed in recent years by the success of the Tate Modern downriver, is back on the culture map. In October a highly anticipated exhibit, "The Painting of Modern Life," opens with works by Gerhard Richter and Andy Warhol (southbankcentre.co.uk...
Designed by Sir Norman Foster with sculptor Sir Anthony Caro and Arup engineers, the Millennium Bridge (5), which links pedestrians at the Tate Modern on the south side of the river to St. Paul's Cathedral on the north, is still known affectionately by Londoners as the "wobbly bridge," although its seasickness-inducing swing has been corrected...
...Jesse James, the metaphors are up front: this is a movie as much about modern celebrity as about the Old West. Pitt carries himself with the ground-down grace of a star who's weary of fame. "Jesse is very conscious of his own mortality," says Dominik. "He's imprisoned by the weight of his own myth." The man is fixin' to die and waiting to see who'll be his executioner. Jesse could be Vincent Chase on HBO's Entourage, and the gang his posse. But instead of bathing in the overspill of his limelight, they're jealous, rancorous...
...will mourn them. But in the race to make Beijing one of the world's great modern cities, much of it has been turned into cold canyons of glass and steel, alienated spaces that feel as though they will never evolve into something human. And whole neighborhoods of Beijing--communities, some of which were hundreds of years old--have been bulldozed in the name of progress. "As Beijingers pursue the comfort and efficiency of modernization," says a notice on the website of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games, "tradition and history are carefully preserved." For many...