Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard Square, Pasquarello said to expect more of what the department calls "park and walks," where officers leave their cruisers and patrol on foot...
...large pool of icy-cold water and...wait a second, isn't this where we left off? Not quite. This time the 24-year-old Titanic star--the world's most famous young leading man--is submerged beneath a gushing waterfall in Thailand's Khao Yai National Park, an immense forest reserve crawling with tigers, leopards, elephants and pythons. A doctor also warns of leeches: real ones, not the Hollywood type. But it's 1999, not 1997, and there's more than just dangerous wildlife surrounding DiCaprio these days. His entire world has been saturated with changes since the last...
...debate is only one of the challenges that the actor is having to face as he undertakes to carry his first movie alone as a major star. On one particular day in early February, for example, some of the friends who regularly travel with DiCaprio are missing in the park, and one of the star's brawny bodyguards frantically screams out their names while searching for them; they're eventually found unharmed. During another crazed moment, about a dozen save-the-forest protesters attempt to rush onto the set but are held back by armed officials. Meanwhile, studio executives from...
Bangkok-based filmmaker/activist Ing Kanjanavanit isn't appeased. "This battle isn't just over one cove on a small remote island; it's over the institution of our National Park Act itself," she says. "For 10 years the government tried to defang it and open up parks for tourism de-velopment. In this case, the studio's agenda and the government's agenda met." Kanjanavanit, who can no longer speak about The Beach situation without crying, says families and friends on the neighboring island Phi Phi Don have split over the controversy. She's right about that. "Many people...
DIED. CURTIS CARLSON, 84, jaunty self-made billionaire; in St. Louis Park, Minn. During the Depression, Carlson borrowed $55 from his landlord to jumpstart his trading-stamp company, Gold Bond. That business, which earned him his first million by age 39, turned into Carlson Cos., parent to ventures such as TGI Friday's and Radisson Hotels...