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...Even China, Asia's perennial pop-culture laggard, has hopped on the bandwagon. The upcoming The Ghost Inside?at $600,000, the country's most expensive scary movie?transplants the single-mom-in-a-creepy-apartment formula to an impersonal, rapidly modernizing mainland city. Despite the tight budget, its cast includes Beijing heartthrob Liu Ye and Taiwanese TV-drama princess Barbie Hsu. For now, though, the hotbed of Asian dread remains Japan, where Ichise presides over his assembly line of scares. In the next two years he plans to release at least four more Japanese ghost movies, including one each...
...able to trust the author," she writes. "Now I had sullied that belief." Gradually, the novels began to reflect her own preoccupations. "The more I searched for his voice, the more I caught my own breaking through," she writes. She used the death of a child - her own single-mom fear at the time - as a plot device. That, plus Tiger's munificence, lavish parties and working trips to his French estate, helped make the job bearable. Yet the strain grew worse. "Can one write from another person's heart?" she asks. "It's like trying to fake sincerity." Erdal...
...former teen mom, Rodriguez felt the reality of the up close and personal view of these mother’s lives reminded her of how she “went around numb,” so ashamed that the first person she told she was pregnant was her doctor in the delivery room...
...sure my mom would love to see me fair-catch a little bit more, but I’ve kind of developed this reputation,” the senior jokes, sitting on the end of the couch in his Winthrop common room. “I just feel that every time I catch a punt, there’s this chance that I’m going to go and make somebody miss, break a tackle, and get some yards to help the team...
...Informal finance isn't just for mom-and-pop shops. Wenzhou's biggest restaurant, the 200-table Golden Fields Village, opened in May and specializes in shark-fin soup, giant snails and stingrays. Owner Wu Jianguan started the business by borrowing $100,000 from banks by mortgaging his home. But that wasn't enough to pay for the floor-to-ceiling fish tanks and staff of 150 hostesses in purple evening gowns, so he borrowed five times more from friends at higher rates. The cornerstones of such informal lending are relationships far stronger than Wu's connections to the bank...