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Very few screenwriters get kidnapped. In Hollywood, where most of them live and work, they're considered low-value targets. But moments after arriving in Beirut in 2002, Stephen Gaghan, the Oscar-winning writer of Traffic, found himself in what seemed to be a hostage situation. His cell phone rang, and the voice on the other end said, "I've got something really special you can do, but you have to do it right now and I can't tell you what it is." Gaghan walked out of the airport and got into a car with a stranger. As they...
...sobriety, he became perhaps the only writer in history to be rejected by both Baywatch Nights and Red Shoe Diaries before landing a job on NYPD Blue under celebrated writer guru David Milch. But struggling for years imbued him with an uncommon sense of purpose. After winning an Oscar for Traffic in 2001, Gaghan turned down seven-figure offers to write the fourth Indiana Jones movie and adapt The Da Vinci Code. Instead, inspired by an anecdote about an oil lobbyist in See No Evil, a memoir by former CIA officer Robert Baer, Gaghan decided to make a complex, journalistic...
...saying maybe you put them on TV and cut off a thumb." OSCAR GOODMAN, Las Vegas Mayor, in a televised interview, on how to stop graffiti artists defacing the city's freeways...
...Zhang, of the worldwide kung fu hits Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and House of Flying Daggers, plays Sayuri. Gong Li, mainland China's first international star, is Hatsumomo. Michelle Yeoh, another Crouching Tiger eminence, who was also a Bond girl (Tomorrow Never Dies), is Mameha. And Ken Watanabe, the Oscar-nominated warrior of The Last Samurai, is the Chairman...
...older clients with Forth & Towne salespeople, called "style consultants," who advise women on putting together a complete look. "In focus groups, women kept telling us, 'I have so many clothes, and I don't know how to put them together,'" says designer Austyn Zung, who was hired away from Oscar de La Renta. Another key service element will be fitting rooms with extra lounging space for a friend or husband. The fit of the clothes is another major point of difference with Gap and is geared toward a more mature customer, with longer T shirts, higher waists and boxier sweaters...