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...pickup in the local economy, many officials and politicians say a sweeping overhaul of Hong Kong's tax system, such as introduction of a sales tax, is needed?making it harder to sell a reform that looks like tax relief for gamblers. In September, Financial Secretary Henry Tang said he might consider the reduction if it could be clearly demonstrated that tax revenues would not significantly suffer. He noted, pointedly, that a high gambling tax "is not the only reason behind the drop in revenue" at the club...
DIED. ODB, 35, rapper; after complaining of chest pains; in New York City. Born Russell Jones, ODB, a.k.a. Ol' Dirty Bastard, was a founding mem-ber of Wu-Tang Clan, one of hip-hop's most innovative groups...
...quit her job five years later to move to New York City, where she met Chris Rock, who hired her as a writer for his HBO show. She got her performing break when fellow writer (and star, as a nonsense-spewing rapper, of the movie Pootie Tang) Lance Crouther agreed to take her to a work party for HBO's Inside the NFL, even though he wasn't supposed to take a guest. Sykes, who was told to lie low, spent the entire time loudly mocking show host Bob Costas' inability to admit he doesn't know something...
Crouther says he realized Sykes' performing talents were greater than his (though, seriously, he was Pootie Tang) when they worked together as writers on Rock's show. "The first acting Wanda did was when she laid down on the street and pretended she got hit by a bus," he says. "It was like a shot to the brain. She was a great writer, and then she started performing...
Hero is a reunion of sorts for the principals. Zhang Ziyi, Crouching Tiger's young star, is a Zhang Yimou discovery. Decades ago, Li and Yen trained together as teens in Beijing, which lends their rain-soaked battle the tang of an ancient schoolyard grudge match. Leung and Cheung, who smoldered so wistfully in Wong's In the Mood for Love, get to express the gamut of emotions as a couple who know each other's tricks. They are Rhett and Scarlett, Tristan and Isolde, and they end their time together in an image so startling and beautiful that...