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...year-old actor-director conceived of the idea for City of Ghosts in the early 1990s while vacationing in Southeast Asia, where he met a slew of grizzled expatriates with shady pasts. Later, an International Herald Tribune story about felons hiding out in Cambodia due to its lack of extradition treaties further sparked his imagination. Working with writer Barry Gifford (Wild at Heart), he penned a noirish yarn about a Manhattan yuppie (played by Dillon) embroiled in a major insurance scam who travels to Phnom Penh and reunites with his mentor, portrayed by James Caan (The Godfather). The plot follows...
...friend at the hotel. He went for treatment at the Prince of Wales Hospital and is believed to be the first link in the chain leading to most of the territory's 200-plus infections. With so many cases concentrated in Hong Kong, travel agents are reporting a slew of cancellations by tourists who had been planning to travel to the territory. Other stricken nations are also running scared: many students in Vietnam are staying home from school because parents are fearful of exposing them to the disease...
...form a strong association, Harvard can come in and ask us what we need and what we want,” she said in response to tenants’ calls for a slew of possible amenities in a new complex, ranging from better parking and new washing machines to even making Charlesview II larger than Charlesview I, which has 213 apartments...
...times change. Contracts failed to materialize, and Gazza's body refused to convert the lightening moves in his mind to dazzling play on the pitch during tryouts with Major League Soccer's DC United and a slew of lackluster sides, including Scottish second division Berwick Rangers. Which is why Gazza has ended up in a training camp in southern Guangdong province, where he will practice for a couple of weeks before heading north to Lanzhou, a city so dirty that when you blow your nose the resulting mess is black. No one expected him to land here with the lowly...
...nights a year--when the Golden Globes and the Oscars are handed out--the movie world belongs to women. At this year's Globes, the top awards, and a slew of free publicity, went to The Hours and Chicago, which between them boast five star roles for women. Moreover, these films are purring at the box office, building momentum for next week's announcement of Academy Award nominations. They could hoist the banner higher for women's films, and sell more tickets, right up to Oscar night, March...