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...Clean she plays the drug-addled wife of a rock star, whose death forces her to take stock and attempt to break her habit in order to win back the custody of her nine-year-old son. Nick Nolte lends sturdy support as the rocker's grieving, generous father, but Cheung?speaking in English, French and Cantonese?carries the movie. The question is whether this meandering, predictable fable of regeneration was a load worth bearing. We say no. At any rate, Cheung won for Clean and not for the film from which her performance was almost completely excised...
...Chinese producers in the control room critiquing the show. "I thought maybe I was a dope to go for two anchors," Terenzio observes, "but I wanted to build a bit of chemistry." When news presenters Chris Gelken and Jacqueline Chan abandon their scripts to banter amiably about the stock market, he's pleased that the chemistry appears to be working. "This," he says, "is really good television...
...Eliot Spitzer realize his immediate political ambitions--becoming, say, Governor of New York or possibly landing a role in a Kerry Administration. Not that financial types wish him well; they just wish he would move on. As New York's attorney general, Spitzer, 44, has pushed through reform of stock-research and investment-banking practices, lobbied for a reduction in mutual-fund fees and left a trail of disgraced executives in his wake. Spitzer carved another notch in his belt last week. After drawn-out negotiations, Richard Strong, the former chief executive of Strong Capital Management, agreed...
...leaving the company with only $800 million, while former CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky remains in jail on fraud charges widely thought to have a political motive. Not surprisingly, Yukos stock had fallen 10.7% by the end of the week. Says Mikhail Krutikhin, an analyst with RusEnergy: "My clients now have just a single question left. Who gets Yukos, once it bankrupts?" Apparently there is an answer. "We know that the successor has been picked - we still don't know exactly [who it is]," says a senior Russian Cabinet official. "The person does not matter, though. It's the type that does...
Wier said that Russia’s stock of radioactive material could be procured by terrorists...