Project Eyeball, 5 April 2001

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial-com.sg Mita (p) 105/03/2001 Thursday, April 5, 2001 80 CENTS
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      356 1 HOCKEY SETS JUNIOR TARGET r This sport is not looking to the seniors for glory. Adam Hashidy says the hockey association is aiming for the 2005 World Cup the Junior World Cup, that is. See Page 19 Community Living \v 4 m U; f V B/ Nl B k I
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      124 2 NEED to reassure yourself that your spouse ain’t doing the dirty behind your back? Romanian inventor Vasile Prisca has just the thing for you, if you have a mobile phone. His device sends a SMS text message when anyone heavier than your spouse gets into your bed. And the
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      Lock icon Kindness Movement linking up with CDCs
      421 2  -  It’s new slogan: ‘Stop for a cuppa, start your day with kindness’ By Toh Bee Ping beeping@sph.com.sg THE Singapore Kindness Movement (SKM) has been spreading the message for four years, but it doesn’t seem to be getting many kind words about its own role.
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    • Eyeball NEWS
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        123 2 A SINGAPOREAN family who went to Johor Baru for a shopping trip found themselves thrown behind bars on their way home. All because their passports did not show any immigration stamp as proof of their legal entry into Malaysia. Madam Loh Li Lian’s family of
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        Lock icon Advice for O, A-level students
        104 2 WONDERING where to go next after your O or A levels? Make a stop at the library@orchard at Ngee Ann City this Saturday first. Academics will be on hand to advise you on whether you should head to a junior college or polytechnic, or a
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        38 2 Zeng Qinghong China’s Minister of the Organisation Department of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee taking in the development at Jurong Island. He.was invited here by Deputy PM Lee Hsien Loong. Lianhe Zaobao
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        Lock icon Overnight walk to mark new Hijrah
        90 2 FOR the first time, non-Muslim youths will be able to join their Muslim friends in an overnight mass walk to mark the new Hijrah, or Islamic calendar. Into its second year, the walk titled Night Explorer 1422 H is organised by SAFF-Perdaus and carries
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        Lock icon CNA to use mobile satellite system
        112 2 CHANNEL News Asia will soon be using mobile satellite dishes for its news coverage. The Satellite News Gathering (SNG) system, which allows for easy live coverage of events, can be packed into 12 neat boxes. The system, acquired from Britain for half a million
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      315 3 BANGKOK Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s legal team yesterday accused the nation’s anti-graft watchdog of political bias as part of its defence against a corruption indictment that could oust him. They said many of the nine anti-corruption commissioners are closely aligned to the Democrat party which Thaksin defeated
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      351 3 Indonesian defence minister cautions Gus Dur backers Wires JAKARTA Defence Minister Mohamad Mahfud. once again raised the spectre of violence breaking out in Indonesia even as President Abdurrahman Wahid’s zealous supporters met to debate whether efforts to remove him amounted to treason. Last month, Mahfud
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      45 3 Jailed former Malaysian deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim waves to his supporters from a van while leaving his residence to attend the funeral of his mother Che Tan Hamid in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. The 74-year-old died on Tuesday after a heart attack. Reuters
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      142 3 MORI PULLS OUT OF RACE Reuters TOKYO Ryutaro Hashimoto is likely to be back as Japanese Prime Minister. Japan’s lame-duck Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori yesterday announced he would not seek reelection as party president. At the same time, the Japanese media reported that the ruling
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        705 4  -  Students who take plunge early cite love and religion as reasons By Eri Akbar AND Zubaidah Nazeer eri@sph.com.sg zubaidah@sph.com.sg THERE was no nuptial home for Daniel Chew and Joanna Tan when they got married in 1995. There was, instead, a hostel room at the Nanyang
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      Lock icon WHERE TO GET ADVICE ON MARRIAGE
      389 4 UNIVERSITY undergraduates considering marriage can turn to counselling services provided by their institutions. Although the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) do not have specific marriage counselling programmes, they have full-time trained counsellors who can help. And NUS is looking
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    • Singapore
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        808 5  -  Recycling bins will soon be a ‘facility’ in some buildings By Wong Sher Maine sher@sph.com.sg YOU already see them in Housing Board estates. Soon, you could be seeing them in your condominium as well. We’re talking about recycling bins. Chesterton International, a
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        Lock icon Unlock, Punch in, Start... ...And drive off with Co-op car
        617 6  -  GSM system, Net bookings, convenient pick-up points make renting a car painless By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg IF NTUC’S car-sharing scheme got any easier, they’d be driving the car to your doorstep. It isn’t quite there yet, but in its latest
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        414 6  -  CROSS-BORDER CONSUMER ASSOCIATIONS’ INTTIATIVE By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg SOON, you will be able to shop in New Zealand and Britain without having to bat an eyelid about being taken for a ride by unethical merchants just look for a business logo endorsed by Case Trust.
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    • The World
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        Lock icon US seen as arrogant in plane tiff with China
        600 7 Chinese chatrooms want Beijing to take tough stance Wires BEIJING Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan yesterday accused the United States of having an arrogant attitude and offering lame arguments during talks to resolve the simmering spy plane controversy. Tang summoned US
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        Lock icon Plane crew healthy, say US officials who finally saw them
        326 7 Wires HAIKOU (China) The crew of the US spy plane remained in detention on Hainan island while China continued to comb the seas in search of the missing pilot of its crashed jet. US officials finally met the crew of
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        956 8 US school embarks on 10-year project to make syllabi, exams, lectures available online NYT CAMBRIDGE (Massachusetts) In this day and age of fierce intellectual copyrights, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is taking the path less travelled by posting virtually all its course materials on the Web,
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        Lock icon Palestinians, Israel move closer to talks
        337 9 Peres meets Arafat’s men as forces trade fire in Gaza Reuters ATHENS Israel and the Palestinians took a public step towards a return to dialogue yesterday, holding their highest-level meeting since hardline Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon took office. While Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon
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        486 9 Fight or flight that’s how the human body copes with stress. But what if the fight goes on and on and there’s nowhere to fly to? Sick and tired of a six-month-long Palestinian uprising this is how Israelis cope with battle fatigue. POPPING THE
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    • Technology
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        Lock icon Time for a reality check on cyber threats
        1057 10  -  Are the alarmists exaggerating? By Caroline Brenner Caroline Benner is managing editor of the Foreign Service Journal. Salon NEW YORK Are you under 30? If so, jokes former United States National Security Adviser Anthony Lake in his book Six Nightmares, chances are
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        642 11 Computer mice and mouse pads have undergone makeovers. The latest products boast more interesting designs than their predecessors. Not only that, they also incorporate fancy tech nology STEVEN NG (stevenng@sph.com.sg) takes a look at two recent offerings on the market. Mighty mouse proves size doesn’t matter
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        Lock icon New laser system for throat surgery
        526 12  -  It negates the need for steady hands, says its makers By Andrew Chin andrewc@sph.com.sg EAR, nose and throat (ENT) surgeons don’t need to worry if they don’t have a steady hand anymore. Not when they have the Acußlade robotic laser microsurgery system at the
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        311 12 DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING PROJECT AP SANTA CLARA (California)Would you like to help fight cancer? Even if you’re not a doctor or researcher, you can do your part. Just log on to the Internet. The fight against cancer gained a powerful ally yesterday the promise of
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    • Business
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        Lock icon Mi owners in talks to sell off shares
        389 13  -  Bat they remain committed to supporting the second-largest telco in S’pore By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg CLOSE on the heels of the Sing-Tel-Optus deal comes another bolt from the blue. The owners of Mobile One Asia (Ml) the country’s second largest mobile and
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      • Business BUZZ
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          64 13 THE Australian government said it was investigating the security implications of SingTel’s planned takeover of Cable Wireless Optus on Optus’ satellite joint venture with the Australian Defence Force. “The government recognises that satellite communications are an important component of defence communications, and is aware that a change of
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          70 13 A LOYALTY programme launched yesterday will allow cash card users to enjoy discounts at some 300 retail shops here. Members of CoolPerks.com’s programme can accumulate points through purchases at 87 participating merchants. The points can be converted into discounts and redeemed at the outlets. The programme is
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        Lock icon Firms told to comply with business code by 2003
        273 13  -  CONCERN OVER SALARY DISCLOSURES Francis Kan LISTED companies in Singapore have less than two years to move towards greater disclosure and transparency. Come Jan 1, 2003, they will have to mention the corporate governance practices in place in their annual reports.
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      • E-Male ADDRESS
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          Lock icon Socking it to them
          675 16  -  By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg SENIOR officers from the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) have the uncanny knack of shocking the beejeebers out of their peers from other more established navies. All it takes is one sentence: I wash my own socks. Our officers then sit back
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        Lock icon A GIFT OF LOVE
        76 16 WHAT gift would you pick up for the girl in your life? 56% Something romantic. 20% I’ll ask her what she wants. 7% Get her a gift? There’s no need. 6% A gadgety thing that I can borrow later. 6% Something expensive. 5% Roses, lots of
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      • Eyeballing THE NET
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          Lock icon Tired of being wired
          563 17  -  By Richard Mort rmort@sph.com.sg GIVEN that our 650 sq km is the third most wired area on the planet after Denmark and the US, many would say we are living life on the Internet already. A few have taken that statement even more literally. Since a
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      27 4 Do you have any experiences to share as a married undergraduate? And do you think that universities should provide accommodation for married students? Tell us at http://eyebalLasial.com.sg
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      21 5 Here’s a selection of local recycling websites: http:/ /web.singnet.com. sg/ yenet/yen.htm http://www.env.gov.sg/ sitemap.html http://www.sec.org.sg/ recvlce htm/ recycle r frameset.htm http://www,recycling point.com.sg
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      13 10 http://www.cybercrimes.net/Terrorism/ terrorism.html An overview of cyberterrorism. http://www.icsa.ac.uk/Publications/rusi.html Cyber-attacks: The shape of future conflict?
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      74 12 http://www.intel.com/ cure/how.htm Click here to find out how the cancer programme works. All you need is a PC and an Internet connection. You will need to download and install a file to join in the peer-to-peer research programme. The research will run in the background, so you shouldn’t notice it.
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      390 14 Daimaru Liang Court (Level 1) Golf Town Marina Square (Level 4, above Best Denki) Raffles Country Club (Pro shop) Takashimaya S. C. (Level 4) Technology Performance Passion StnmGESTone oo Player’s Eye ®HOT DttlVEft A •<*' A w. rr r s II r r Sharp, orthodox head shape adapted from the
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  • EyeSport
    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Stalker convicted
        87 18 AP MIAMI A man who said he fell in love with tennis star Martina Hingis and followed her to tournaments around the world, despite her pleas to stay away, has been convicted of stalking. Dubravko Rajcevic, a 46-year-old Croatian-born naval architect from Australia, was on Tuesday found guilty
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        Lock icon High and dry
        74 18 AP TAMPA (Florida) Former baseball star Darryl Strawberry told his probation officer he spent the four days he was missing doing cocaine with a female friend and armed men, who took his jewellery and abandoned him in a motel room. Florida probation officials said on Tuesday that
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        47 18 AFP NEW YORK-The NBA suspended Toronto Raptors forward Charles Oakley for one game and fined him US$lO,OOO dollars (S$18,100) for hitting Philadelphia 76ers forward Tyrone Hill in the head with a basketball during a shootaround before Tuesday’s game. Oakley will miss the game against Philadelphia.
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      418 18 Portland suffers as Wallace, Strickland get into trouble REBELS without a clue, that’s what the bad boys of the Portland TrailBlazers are. When the going gets tough for this team, Rasheed Wallace and Rod Strickland get themselves into trouble. Wallace set a record for NBA ejections on
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      Lock icon Defeat may only make United stronger
      455 18 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE QUARTER-FINALS IT AIN’T over until the fat lady sings. Well maybe Jaap Stam didn’t quite say it that way,-but the Dutch defender wasn’t too worried about Manchester United’s TO loss to Bayern Munich on Tuesday. United, who were sunk by an 86th
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      Lock icon Building champions from the bottom up
      524 19  -  Hockey Association aims to groom youngsters for international tourneys By Adam Hashidy hashidy@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE’S hockey players have been out of the limelight in recent years. But the latest brainchild of the Singapore Hockey Association (SHA) looks set to usher in a brighter future. Co.denamed
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    • Sport IN SHORT
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        71 19 CHEJU (South Korea) SOCCER’S world governing body Fifa expressed concern yesterday over the slow pace at which construction of the Cheju stadium was progressing. But the mayor of Cheju’s Seokyipo City, which hosts the stadium, expressed confidence the construction would be finished by September. It is one
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        85 19 SYDNEY A photograph showing disgraced rugby league player John Hopoate sticking his finger up an opponent’s butt has been used by the New Zealand Cancer Society to advertise prostate’cancer checks, with a tagline: “It won’t hurt a bit promise.” Hopoate’s manager said they had not been approached about
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        Lock icon Aikman’s choices
        73 19 Wires ARLINGTON (Texas) Troy Aikman figured broadcasting NFL Europe games was a good way to get paid to travel overseas. He came back thinking about making television a second career. In a week’s time, he will decide if he wants to take a job playing football or talking
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      Lock icon Kim too jumps into fray to succeed Samaranch
      246 19 I.O.C. ELECTION AP MONACO The race to succeed Juan Antonio Samaranch as president of the lOC took final shape on Tuesday when South Korea’s Kim Un-yong completed the five-per-son field. Portraying himself as a guardian of the Olympic tradition and warning of
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    • Off the COURSE
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        Lock icon No power
        70 20 DAVID DUVAL was asked how he felt about the subtle changes made to the Augusta National Golf Club since last year’s Masters. “They still have failed to call me when they are thinking about making changes here,” he said. “There’s nothing they (players) can do about it. “It’s
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        Lock icon May in pain
        88 20 808 MAY, who took Tiger Woods to the wire before losing a playoff at last year’s PGA Championship, is being bothered by a bad back. “L 4 and L 5 (discs) flared up and hit right on a nerve, and it shuts me down from my hips
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        Lock icon Putting Garcia
        52 20 SPAIN’S Sergio Garcia has played in only two Masters, but it didn’t take him long to figure out what matters most at Augusta National. “If I have a good week putting, I should be right there,” he said. “It all comes down to how fast and firm the
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        57 20 USA Today ENGLAND’S Lee Westwood, 27, withdrew from the tournament because his wife, Laurae, is expected to give birth to the couple’s first child anytime. If Laurae gave birth before the first round, it would have been difficult for Westwood to travel from England in time to properly
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      Lock icon Pick of the pack
      791 20 If 5 that time again when the cream of the crop battle it out at Augusta for America's most prestigious golfing title. LUKE PACHITMUTHU (luke@-sph.com.sg) takes a look at those in with a chance. TIGER WOODS Duh! Tiger Woods is an automatic pick for any contenders’
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  • Unwind
    • Movies
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        Lock icon SCREAM NO MORE
        586 21 Scream was responsible for reviving that ignominious genre critics hoped would remain dead and buried: The slasher flick. Now Valentine proves that this genre is suffering overkill and needs to be put to sleep, reports L Icunimiric lan i lljcanm" sph.com.sgjC GO BACK in time to 1996.
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        Lock icon A slasher flick with a dull edge
        768 22  -  Jeanmarie Tan VALENTINE (PG) Denise Richards, David Boreanaz, Marley Shelton and Katherine Heigl BLOOD on the dance floor and screams all around. It’s not much of a promise for this slasher flick. But it does feature Denise Richards. And boy, does this movie
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        Lock icon A RECIPE FOR MAKING BLOOD
        341 22  -  Jeanmarie Tan WHAT makes a slasher film? As witnessed three decades and countless turkeys later, not bloody much. Eyeball offers a step-by-step guide that any self-respecting horror-flick lover can follow: INGREDIENTS: One group of attractive, oversexed, unsupervised, brainless teens (played by a cast of unknown
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        Lock icon Geeks, gadgets and plot pirates
        429 23  - Geeks gadgets and plot pirates Reviews: Jeanmarie Tan ANTITRUST (PG) Ryan Phillippe, Tim Robbins, Claire Forlani, Rachel Leigh Cook THE geeks will inherit the earth so postulates Antitrust, the latest in Hollywood’s tepid David vs Goliath, industrial espionage thrillers. Directed by Peter Howitt (who also helmed Sliding Doors), not only
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        185 23  -  Lim Hui Ling MOULIN ROUGE Time: 2 mins 15 secs http://www.clubmoulinrouge.com/trailer THIS trailer gives a sneak peek into Charles Zidler’s realm of bordellos, cabaret and bohemian suffering, one that is seized by poverty. Yet, individuals search for a way out by losing themselves in the nightlife. The escapade
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        Lock icon Six degrees of separation
        757 24 Ed Burns. Ben Affleck. Ed? Ben? Separated at birth, is what CLARA CHOW (clarac@sph.com.sg) says, as she lists the six degrees of separation between the two Hollywood heartthrobs. N MANY ways, Edward Burns and Ben Affleck bear a striking resemblance to each other. Both are tall
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      • Cyber SNITCH
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          64 24 ROBERT RODRIGUEZ’S upcoming flick shows that the man behind the violence of El Mariachi, Desperado and From Dusk Till Dawn is actually a mushball. Spy Kids, which was released in the US last month, is a wholesome action comedy. It tells of two young kids who
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          61 24 FILM students struggling with critical analysis can turn to the Net for help. Richard Michaels Stefanik, who conducts Making Megahit Movies, a UCLA feature-film development workshop, has set up a website, http://www.mega hitmovies.com, that analyses top movies like Return Of The Jedi. You get trivia that’ll contribute to
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          65 24 THE fastest route to getting discovered used to be waitressing. Then came the Net. At http://www.thebigchance. com, aspiring stars can take part in Anything Goes to win up to US$lO,OOO (S$18,000) in cash and prizes, plus get a boost into the movie industry. All you have to
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          Lock icon QUOTE OF THE WEEK
          30 24 What’s with the Mission Impossible 3 bullshit? You re a geek!’ a thug mocking bespectacled Ryan Phillipe for trying some dodges and defensive kicks in Antitrust
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      • Hollywood GOSSIP
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          135 25 JENNIFER LOPEZ has dropped a film about the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo after a rival biopic starring Salma Hayek and Geoffrey Rush was given the go-ahead at Miramax first. Instead, she’s in negotiations to play an FBI profiler in director Tony Scott’s Taking Lives for Warner Bros
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          Lock icon Catwoman’s back
          113 25 MOVE over Michelle Pfeiffer. The new Catwoman in town will be the younger, more feline Ashley Judd. The prettiest of the Judds has inked a deal to star in Catwoman, an original film in development at Warner Bros. Despite The Matrix’s success, Batman continues to be Warner Bros’
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          Lock icon Immortalised
          77 25  -  Tan Dawn Wei R&B LEGEND Ray Charles will be immortalised in a new film about his life called Unchain My Heart: The Ray Charles Story. The film promises to be a nostalgic tear-jerker, tracing Charles’ rags-to-riches story from being poor in Albany, Georgia, through his rise to music legend,
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        Lock icon Hurray, v good news
        365 25 Reuters She’s every single womans icon. Now, watch Bridget Jones she of the hard-to-put-down diary jump from paper to celluloid. Just what does it take to turn a British literary phenomenon into a blockbuster? JILL SERJEANT reports. OVE over Ally L T J McBeal. There is
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        Lock icon CADS, BUT OH, SO CHARISMATIC
        359 25 Reuters THE book, which started as a newspaper column, was a worldwide best-seller despite its peculiar British mix of irony and self-deprecation. “The excitement about making it into a film was tempered with healthy scepticism as to whether it was feasible. A lot of people
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        Lock icon Whole lotta grindin’ goin on
        951 26 NYT Dancing that activity whose sexually charged undertones have been the stuff of movies since the advent of drums. Today s ‘booty dancing looks set to be the new lambada, XQRK KICKLIGHTER reports, and its got parents worried. PRIDAY night in Atlanta. At clubs like
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          Lock icon CLUB OF THE WEEK
          101 27 Zouk 17JiakKim St COME April 7, Mardi Gras and weird dressing will be the order of the evening. Feel free to doll up in wacky styles, from drag to military to Jap anime. Not keen to go all the way? Then leave it to the tattoo
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          Lock icon OTHER STOPOVERS
          188 27  -  Lim Huiling dblO #O2-20 Robertson Walk CLUB dbl O is holding pre-launch parties of a new weekly ladies’ promotion GIRL, on April 11,18 and 25. Over these three nights, drinks are free-flow and there are pieces of a GIRL puzzle to be collected. Complete the puzzle and exchange
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        384 27 When it comes to a beach party, the more skin the better. KARL HO (karl@sph .com.sg) checks out the scanty parade at the Ke party at the Mahalo Beach Bar. FRAID the make-up and glad rags are going to get hurt if you wear them too much to
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