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...serial dog poisonings have become a topic of obsessive speculation. Last year, Hong Kong University sociology postgraduates used the case in a criminal behavior course. Even a Swedish animal law expert, Helena Striwing, has become involved. She suggests the killer's target is not dogs. "He wants to hurt people," she says. "He is motivated to target and hurt the dog owners for some reason, to create misery." To that end, police offer a more prosaic premise. According to Skinner, the killer is likely annoyed by dog droppings along the footpath. "It's more probably a revenge thing," he says...
Spanish or Swedish? Empanadas or egg rolls? No, it's not dining out--it's cooking in, and that chef wielding the spatula may well be your 10-year-old. In increasing numbers, kids are in the kitchen--and not just to open the refrigerator and sigh that there's nothing to eat. They are poring over cookbooks, preparing the family meal and signing up for cooking classes...
...first movie, The Ghost Thief, a three-minute thriller on 8-mm film. As a teen, he took his camera everywhere, and his precocity later landed him work in TV, which "was my film school," he says. "I worked the cameras and I edited," mostly on music shorts for Swedish television. Gradually, Hallström shifted his focus from the small screen to the big. But few people saw his first feature, a boy-meets-girl tale, or his second, ABBA: The Movie, about the group's 1977 Australian tour. Real recognition didn't come until My Life...
...first literary adaptation, a "genre" that has become his specialty. His two Swedish Pippi Longstocking films and his best-known English-language features - What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, The Cider House Rules and Chocolat - all began as books. He can't explain why so much of his work has been book-based but says he likes material "that isn't linear, that goes with characters...
...lived for the past few years, back to Stockholm. Johan, his 24-year-old son from his first marriage, still lives in Sweden, and Hallström and his wife, actress Lena Olin, want their other children - her son August, 15, and their daughter Tora, 6 - to grow up Swedish, not American. He also would like to work on a film in his native language. In the U.S.,"I have this feeling of being a visitor who is having an adventure," he says. It has been quite a ride, but it's time to go home...