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...decide the best applicant wanted to go to Thailand, we would have a conversation with the student...and work with the student to develop an [alternate] plan,” he said...
...Without a vaccine or fail-safe pharmaceutical answer, many countries are resorting to extreme methods to try to contain the disease. Thailand is now requiring anyone entering the country from an infected zone to wear a surgical mask. Schools in Hong Kong will remain closed until April 21. All nonessential surgery has been postponed in Hong Kong and Toronto, so that the overburdened health-care systems can handle the costly and time-consuming treatment of SARS victims. Panic is erupting in usually placid Canada, where Chinese restaurateurs are now having to convince nervous patrons that eating moo shu pork doesn...
...Wild Things. But neither of those compare to the pesky monkeys that tormented Dillon during the filming of his directorial debut, City of Ghosts, a crime drama set mostly in Cambodia and scheduled to open on April 25 in the U.S. "We had to smuggle in a monkey from Thailand for some scenes, because our Cambodian monkey was untrained and bit a chunk out of the prop lady's ear," Dillon recalls. "The Thai monkey escaped, and its trainer was yelling at these kids who gathered around not to chase it. Of course, every kid in Cambodia went after that...
...Then there was the issue of shooting in a country where no Western film crew had completed an entire movie since 1964, when Peter O'Toole braved cobras, heat rash and corrupt officials during the making of Lord Jim. Although many Asia hands advised Dillon to shoot in neighboring Thailand instead, he insisted that Cambodia, with its French-influenced architecture and postwar fragility, was a location that couldn't be substituted. "There are things you'd never worry about in other places?land-mine clearance, having roads rebuilt, getting real security," says Dillon. "But it's not like anywhere else...
...Bizot is also an unsparing observer of the regime's victims, particularly the foreigners who sought refuge at the embassy. When a group of them are finally given safe passage to Thailand, one American journalist fills his only bag with silver plate stolen from the embassy dining room. At the final checkpoint, within sight of freedom, a French radio announcer, hysterical with fear, renounces his Khmer bride and allows her and her child to be dragged away...