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...classes, begun at Stonewall in 1994, often feel like college seminars. An I.B. anthropology course has become so popular that Stonewall offers four sections of it. In one lesson in April, the day before the prom, teacher Maureen Ellis hopped from apartheid to Yugoslavia to India's Mogul dynasty, and hands shot up as students fielded questions about acculturation and colonialism. It costs Stonewall $66,000 a year to offer the I.B. program, but teachers and parents say the benefits returned to the school are priceless...
Advising them, for a fee, is a canny Manhattan p.r. mogul named Lucien Joyce, who lures some journalists to the event with the usual promises of complimentary travel, lodgings, food and booze. One of these veteran junketeers is J. Sutter, an African-American freelancer who has been covering, on someone else's tab, staged events every day for three months. Why not, he asks himself, just keep going until he breaks the freeloading record, whatever that...
...Farewell My Concubine's conflicted gay opera star), action thrillers (as the sensitive young cop in A Better Tomorrow), fantasies (as Brigitte Lin's mountaintop lover in The Bride with White Hair), dark romances (as the haunted singer in The Phantom Lover) and fluffy comedies (as the music mogul in He's a Woman, She's a Man). Last year he played a psycho killer in Double...
Silvio Berlusconi used to say he loved Sabina Guzzanti's TV impersonations of him. He may have changed his mind after her last couple of outings on the political satire show L'Ottavo Nano (The Eighth Dwarf). Guzzanti's version of the media mogul-turned-politician is dismissive of immigrants, throws bricks at passersby, boasts of having bought Italian democracy and, naturally, gets a custard pie in his face. The 37-year-old Guzzanti says her satire is "a way of showing people they're not alone in noticing the lack of logic in Italian politics." She has made...
...well-paid American who gets ticketed for speeding in Finland faces a moral dilemma. Fines there are levied according to your income, net worth and number of dependents. The record so far: $71,400, charged to a Finnish Internet mogul clocked doing 43 m.p.h. in a 25 m.p.h. zone last October. Lowballing the officer is a serious crime, and if you're a Finn, that doesn't work very well: cops can check your income and assets by calling a national database with their Nokia cell phone. They cannot, however, check the finances of foreigners, who are left to wrestle...