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...only one smitten by the charms of Montenegro. The luxury hotel chain Amanresorts is renovating two of the finest sites on the coast. And an influx of Russians is already making it the fastest-growing tourist destination in the world. Billboards promising "choice properties" in Russian Cyrillic script line the avenues of coastal towns like Becici. Property prices have shot up, rising as much as fivefold in Tivat over the past five years. A building boom, meanwhile, is gobbling up green space. Pavle Jurlina, a pharmacist in Tivat, says his cousin just sold off land that had been...
Hutz plans to direct himself next, in a movie titled either The History of American Silence or, he jokes, When the Spirits Get Pissed. He's been working on the script in Brazil where he now lives (as much as he lives anywhere). The film will feature Gogol Bordello. "I think that we're going to be a band that not only puts out an album every year and a half but also a film every year and a half," he says...
...Lumpur's Azizul Abdul Latif, 31, and Izham Fazely, 25, felt similarly when, two years ago, they established PopMalaya. As Latif tells it, they were tired of clothing designs "ripped off" from the U.S., Europe and Japan. So they created their own, melding Jawi, the country's adapted Arabic script, with images of Bas Mini (KL's minibus service) and Tunku Abdul Rahman, the revered father of independence. "We hope that through our designs, people will start to become more observant of themselves and realize that our local culture is rich and colorful in its own right," Latif says...
...speech, pre arranged and carefully scripted, was nothing the Chinese didn't expect. A beaming foreign minister, Yang Jieche - Beijing's former Ambassador to Washington - greeted Bush warmly when he arrived in Beijing Thursday night. Publicly, Bush kept to the script as to why he had come to Beijing. "I'm lookin' forward to goin' to the games," he concluded his speech at the embassy Friday morning...
...mean, I don't sit around and think about it for large periods of time, but I would do it. I don't really go to that many serious movies. And my only rule is, Is the role something I would go see? Often I'll read a script and say, That's a great movie, tons of people will go see that, but I never would in a million years...