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MADONNA has already shown you don't need even a marginally convincing English accent to snag a British spouse, but it's usually assumed that to get your own tartan requires some pretty deep local roots. The Highlands of Scotland Tourist Board, however, seems to regard a lack of ancestry as a wee piffling obstacle. So grateful was it when Madge married director Guy Ritchie in a Scottish castle last winter that the board, as "a special thank-you," commissioned a new tartan, Romantic Scotland, in honor of the duo. "Madonna is the original Material Girl, so a length...
...father's film Daddy's Dyin'...Who's Got the Will? The lowborn Jack Black provides a dose of plebeian grit, but in the director's chair is Jake Kasdan, 26, in charge of his second Hollywood feature after appearing in '80s dramas The Big Chill and The Accidental Tourist--both directed by, you guessed it, his dad Lawrence Kasdan. At least Hollywood and President Bush see eye to eye on some issues...
...Sept. 11, a small gallery space opened in SoHo in an effort to provide another venue for the expression of grief, following in the idea of healing through art. The concept of Here is New York is remarkably simple but equally profound: Anyone—from a snapshot-taking tourist to a professional photographer —can contribute images somehow relevant to the attacks; the images are digitally scanned, reprinted and hung. Anyone can order a printed copy of any image for $25, with profits being donated to relief efforts. The layout of the gallery space reflects the grassroots...
Ground zero has become both a tourist-thronged landmark and an exclusive downtown club. The site itself is nearly level, with most of the recovery work now taking place underground. In some areas, the engineering crews from three different companies have cleared through two of the seven stories buried beneath the street; the cleanup task could finish by next spring. At any given time, 1,000 people work inside the "red zone"--the area of devastation still off limits to the public. Workers there have put up a Christmas tree and an iron cross found in the wreckage...
...using a forged passport while committing a terrorist act, be sure to carry supporting documentation with the same name, and have a good cover story for why you have the passport. That diabolical tourist tip was among the terrorist how-tos contained in a trove of handwritten notes found earlier this month in a house in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, abandoned by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network...