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Martin Scorsese's eagerly awaited film The Aviator depicts the early years of tycoon HOWARD HUGHES. Even before his reclusive old age, TIME was fascinated with the eccentric billionaire...
Taka Ichise has made a killing peddling screams and sleepless nights. Over the past six years he has spent $13 million to make nine Japanese ghost movies, which have raked in more than $100 million worldwide. So like any tycoon in a growth industry, Ichise is ramping up production. In October the 43-year-old producer released two new films in Japan: Infection (featuring a haunted hospital) and Premonition (about a newspaper that describes grisly events before they happen). Meanwhile, The Grudge?Ichise's Hollywood remake of his 2002 hit Ju-on?topped the U.S. box office when...
...Kate; of colon cancer; in Palm Desert, Calif. Keel rocketed to stardom as sharpshooter Frank Butler in Annie Get Your Gun, the first of a string of musicals he made for MGM. In the 1980s he revived his career on TV's Dallas as Clayton Farlow, the debonair tycoon who romanced matriarch Miss Ellie and confounded...
...soccer, but if they want to wager a few ringgit on Manchester United or Arsenal, they do so at their own risk: gambling on the beautiful game is illegal in the predominantly Muslim nation. Last year, that situation was headed for change. Earlier this month, news was leaked that tycoon Vincent Tan had been awarded a license to run a national soccer-betting network by outgoing Prime Minister...
...Politically, Abdullah's decision bagged two birds with a single stone. Since taking office last November, the Prime Minister has distanced himself from several of Mahathir's more controversial awards to businessmen, which has been popular. In January, for example, he canceled a $3.8 billion railway contract with another tycoon. Tan had paid $6.6 million for the betting license, which officials say will be refunded, and the business was guaranteed to be large: police estimate that illegal betting on soccer already pulls in $1.6 billion a year. Conservative Muslims-Islam forbids gambling-applauded Abdullah's move...