Word: starlet
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STAR by PAMELA ANDERSON (with a ghostwriter). It's about a young Florida starlet who gets discovered by Hollywood, lands a role on a TV sitcom called Hammer Time, gets breast implants, has a lot of uninhibited sex and stars in another TV series, Lifeguards...
What's Hollywood doing knocking off Japanese horror films? Isn't East Asia supposed to make tatty copies of U.S. products? Maybe handbags and CDs, but Japanese horror is getting the starlet treatment in parts of Los Angeles these days. With reason: its recent, smartly shivery movies are the best. So much so that two young Japanese directors have now gone west to show Hollywood how scary is done...
...watching the latest Bollywood movies. No reason to worry about any of this, right? There isn't as long as you don't read Hari Kunzru's new novel, Transmission, in which an unhappy Indian programmer is driven by job insecurity and his obsession with a Bollywood starlet to write a vicious computer virus and unleash it on the world. The misadventures of this renegade geek-along with those of the starlet, her mother, a shallow London marketing executive, his promiscuous girlfriend, a couple of xenophobic European bureaucrats and a Korean society devoted to an online fantasy game-combine...
...Even more enlightening his reporting on the experiences of young African players on the margins of European football in his chapter on the "Black Carpathians." Here, he tracks the story of Edward Anyamkyegh, a Nigerian starlet playing at Karpaty Lviv, a Ukrainian team with a fiercely nationalist tradition. In the Soviet era, the Ukraine was recognized as the cradle of the Union's soccer talent, regularly supplying a majority of the national team's players. But despite its tradition of representing Ukrainian pride (particularly against Russian teams during the Soviet era), the accepted wisdom in independent Ukraine is that soccer...
...possible successor by his grandfather, who put him on Fiat's board in 1997. So far he has deliberately kept out of the spotlight. Lapo, 27, who works in Fiat's marketing department, frequently appears in the gossip columns, not least because he's dating a TV starlet. Andrea currently works for Philip Morris. Family members say all three will play leadership roles. The question is, How successfully can the Agnellis manage the troubled empire while the youngsters are learning the ropes...