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...will be an optimist to the death." In more recent years, especially in Italy, Pavarotti received more coverage for his personal than professional endeavors. He was forced to make a multi-million dollar payout to Italian tax police in the 1990s, and later was criticized for leaving his wife of 30-plus years to marry his young assistant...
...lucky he was able to keep so many of his pictures," says Ng Siu-yee with a sad smile. A longtime friend and colleague of Yau's, and today the administrator of his copyright, Ng jokes that had Yau been married, "I'm sure his wife would have made him throw most of his photos out. He was a real hoarder, not just of photos but of everything - newspaper clippings, tram tickets - and you know how small Hong Kong apartments...
There's one tiny bit in Darjeeling that shows what Anderson can do. The camera tracks along a corridor of train compartments. In each is a different character, glimpsed for just a few seconds: the Sikh trainman, the hostess, Peter's wife ... and Bill Murray as a businessman also seen briefly at the film's opening. It's a graceful series of snapshots into the lives of Darjeeling's subsidiary characters. Maybe Anderson could make a film about each of them. And perhaps collaborate on the screenplays with Owen Wilson. It could be therapeutic...
Some see the openness as a by-product of Irish history, which has seen plenty of mass migration. There still are fewer people in Ireland today than there were before the potato famine. "The Irish have a caring nature," says Philip Coonan, who works with his wife Mary on the parish welcoming committee. "It was our inheritance in a way. I think it left a mark on our souls, the opportunities we got in the New World...
...more recent years, Pavarotti has been dogged by run-ins with the Italian tax police and hounded by the gossip pages for his divorce to his longtime wife and marriage to his much younger assistant. The singer has repeatedly announced his retirement, only to be called out for one last concert and curtain call. Most recently, though, plans for a farewell tour were put off after he was diagnosed with cancer. He had surgery in July 2006, and has undergone repeated rounds of chemotherapy, and has not been seen in public in more than a year. Pavarotti released a statement...