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...ninth-floor office at the Cheung Kong Center, while his father, on the 70th floor, guides strategy. Some investors wonder if the relatively unknown Li can effectively succeed his father, 75, whose net worth Forbes estimates at $7.8 billion. Still, it is widely assumed that Li--and not his younger brother, telecom tycoon Richard Li--is next in line. Victor avoids the issue but notes how much he's like Dad. "We almost always arrive at similar conclusions," he says. That may be a result of close tutoring. Father and son share a house--Victor, his wife and three daughters...
...service of a life-affirming story about fathers and sons, the kind of thing Steven Spielberg keeps returning to. (Spielberg was at one point attached to direct the film, as was The Hours' Stephen Daldry.) The movie stars Albert Finney as a man on his deathbed who recalls his younger self, played by Ewan McGregor, as a force of indefatigable buoyancy; Finney's son, played by Billy Crudup, believes his father is just an indefatigable liar. Big Fish is rooted in a conflicted adult world, and for the first time in a Tim Burton film, it is the parent...
...finally, it is Christy and Ariel who capture our hearts--especially Emma Bolger, 7, as the younger child. She is--no other word for it--magical in the role, one of those kids who confront the world fearlessly, straightforwardly and with a cheerfulness that never veers toward the emptily uplifting. In her way she encapsulates In America's virtues. It's a realistic movie, but one that's always aware that transformative hope may be just around the corner. --By Richard Schickel
FOUND. Remains that are probably those of CHARLES DEAN, younger brother of Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean; in central Laos. Dean was 24 when he vanished in 1974 while traveling along the Mekong River...
...very unusual." Neil Bush, younger brother of the U.S. President, in a divorce deposition, describing business trips in Asia during which unsolicited women showed up at his hotel rooms to have...