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...know that New Line [the studio releasing the films] would have preferred us to have a little catch-up," says the director, sitting in an office in Wellington, New Zealand, speaking in a cheerful Kiwi accent and peering from behind a mop of curls and plate-size wire-rim glasses. "But I think that's a very TV kind of device. I figured the amount of people going to see Two Towers without seeing Fellowship would be fairly minute. If you can't at least spend $3 or $4 to rent it before you see Two Towers, there...
...changed his life, and he answers, "What life?" For five years, he has devoted himself to Lord of the Rings, always with Walsh at his side. Though they have never married, they share two children (Kate, 6, and Billy, 7) and a rambling old house overlooking the bay in Wellington. They met at a screening of Jackson's first movie, 1987's Bad Taste, a gross-out horror flick about human-eating space aliens. What in the world did Walsh see in the young filmmaker? "I think it was the brain-eating sequence," says Walsh, who was writing for television...
...remembers. Tamahori was 13 when he saw From Russia with Love at a Wellington, New Zealand, cinema. He loved the "great, filthy stuff" in that film--not just the sexiness but also the classic fight scenes and the feel of a true thriller--and says he's trying to deliver a 21st century update of that. "Filthy and snappy!" he says to Brosnan and Berry as they film the scene in which Bond and Jinx meet after her swim. He wants more lust and leer in this encounter--and the whole film. Rosamund Pike, who plays MI6 agent Miranda Frost...
RUSSELL CROWE (A Beautiful Mind) Born: Wellington, New Zealand Moved: 1968, age 4 "I need a country as big as Australia to reclaim myself...
...position to have trouble." New York City research group Catalyst notes that six FORTUNE 500 companies have women CEOs, up from a steady two or three over the past decade. Still, that's just 1.2% of the total. "Is this good news about the glass ceiling?" asks Sheila Wellington, president of Catalyst. "Yes, it is. But does it mean there are chunks of glass lying around executive suites across the nation...