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...Scottish lairds, though this entertaining Indian epic owes as much to Scarface as to Shakespeare. The Tesseract, from a novel by Alex Garland and directed by Oxide Pang (who with his brother Danny made last year's Hong Kong thriller The Eye), has a femme fatale with leather skirt, gun, motorcycle, high cheekbones-all the noir accessories. Open your bedroom door and five tough Thais stand outside, ready to make your face a map of welts. Pang never gets much momentum going here; he's happy to synopsize the genre conventions. And thriller directors never tire of "referencing" the shower...
Eriko Kitagawa announces her presence in the lofty lobby of TBS television network's headquarters in Tokyo as a timid, ruffled-bloused housewife would: a small side step, brief eye contact and a nervous giggle. Soft curls, a conservative skirt and subtle makeup complete her outfit. Is this the scriptwriter who single-handedly brought Japanese television drama to the world stage and at the same time empowered the typically demure female lead? We sit down to?what else??tea, and instantly Kitagawa's sayonara-girl image snaps with her cocky first statement: "I always know what I'm writing will...
...Confident, outspoken and deceptively bold, Kitagawa turns out to be the embodiment of her characters?ladies who can take it on the chin and still look good in a skirt (and who are often accompanied by blue-collar stiffs with sensitive, yearning souls). Since she began writing in 1989, Kitagawa has become a one-woman production company?blend David Kelley's productivity with Oprah's sassiness and you approximate Kitagawa's flavor?conceiving and scripting 11 different drama series, including last year's The Smile Has Left Your Eyes and Beautiful Life. Her one-hour shows have been...
...seen this crew before: the shaggy-haired musician in a black suit and a skinny tie; the set designer in a too tight vintage T shirt and a handmade denim skirt; the graphic artist in reissued Levi's and hard-to-find Nikes...
MEANWHILE IN SWEDEN ... Skirting the Rules His employer wouldn't let bus driver Mats Lundgren wear shorts as temperatures reached 25?C in the northern Swedish city of Umea. Lundgren's solution: he showed up to work wearing a skirt. He had found a loophole in the company's dress code that allowed drivers - regardless of gender - to wear skirts...