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...people say I'm greedy." She'll tell you she is sick of being typecast and yearns for art-house fare, but that she's comfortable in "the small film world" she inhabits, meaning the commercial world of Hong Kong. And she'll do it all from a theatrical trunk of varied voices and styles: Marilyn Monroe one day, bare-midriffed and yet innocent, and Betty Boop the next, squealing with enthusiasm and buried under a floppy Caribbean cricket hat (of which she has a drawer full). The real Shu Qi? We may not have seen...
...GAME Every night a busy industry gears up to test the weak points all along the border's 1,952 miles. In Tijuana smugglers cram three people into a car trunk and a fourth behind a dashboard, then drive through the customs checkpoint, hoping nobody suspects anything. In Calexico aliens float down a stream choked with toxic chemicals and sewage, betting the border patrol won't jump in to pull them out. In nearby Nogales smugglers tunnel 6 ft. under the border and funnel people through...
...before returning to Jerez to begin political careers. Andres Bermudez, 50, vowed that "from now on, government has to do better." Bermudez, the center-left Democratic Revolutionary Party candidate, knows a thing or two about self-improvement. He entered Los Angeles in 1974 hidden in a car trunk, then went on to start greenhouse and orchard businesses that now employ 800 workers--nearly all Mexicans. Win or lose, Bermudez says, he sees himself as the wave of the future: "There are too many Andreses who'll come from the U.S. to force [Mexico] to do better...
...knows what unexpected glitches might arise to make the whole idea impossible. Besides, the hazards of true obesity are enormous. But if the research pans out, it may someday be as prudent to carry a modest spare tire around your waist as it is to carry one in the trunk of your...
...United States tour brought a full house to the Wilbur Theatre; unfortunately, it brought a quarter of them 15 minutes late. In the middle of Laertes’ first scene with Ophelia, the herd of Americans came traipsing down the aisles like so many elephants, linked trunk to tail. After the requisite bit of coat rustling, umbrella shaking, coughs, sniffs and general settling into seats, the performance was allowed to continue...