Project Eyeball, 24 August 2000

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyebaU.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Thursday, August 24, 2000 80 CENTS
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      132 1 T TITVC JuiJL JN Ib9 Hackers crack into online bank Britain’s first Internet bank, the Egg, has been broken into. No cybermoney was taken out, but it has raised concerns over Internet banking. See Page 2 More on cyberbanking and its potential pitfalls (2): http://www.forbes.com/asap/ 00/0403/056a.htm http://www businessweek. com/ebiz/60Q6/ep0626. h
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      143 1 Paternity leave: Make it the law Maternity leave is enshrined in the Employment paternity leave, he carries on working. But Dads Act. For Dad? Unless his company gives him need time off for baby too. See Page 3 Peeved! Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (above) is upset with Gianluca Vialli over a
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      72 2 COPENHAGEN zoo’s six chimpanzees have just inherited £40,000 ($102,000) from an 83-year-old Danish woman, who had no living relatives. The zoo said that the money would be used to spruce up the apes’ cage. Judge Christian Notlevsen made a trip to the zoo to read the will to the
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      Lock icon Finishing up a gigantic task
      45 2 A chef using a blowtorch to lay the finishing touches to Singapore's largest mooncake, now being made outside Chinatown Point. Measuring 3.8 m in diameter and 0.3 m in height, the giant creation will be ready by Saturday. Mike Lee
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      Lock icon Cyber crooks crack Egg
      554 2  -  Raid on British online bank could spook potential customers everywhere By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg LONDON Britain’s first Internet bank, the formidable Egg, has been cracked open by a pipsqueak of a mouse. A computer mQuse, that is. The first ever cyberspace bank robbery has spooked both
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      196 2 AUSTIN The “invisible man” might finally climb out of that H G Wells novel perched on the fiction shelf. Some US scientists have announced that they have found a way to make flesh transparent for a few minutes at a time. The feat is possible, says
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      Lock icon Dads need baby time too
      1150 3  -  Paternity leave should be written into law, say some By Joanna Lim And Siva Govindasamy joanna@sph.com.sg gsiva@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE is supposed to be pro-family. So why do employers’ interests come first when dads want to help care for their newborn babies? With attention focused on Singapore’s
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      Lock icon The long and rocky road to dotcom success
      609 4  -  Most entrepreneurs have little money, no spare time and are single By Wong Sher Maine sher@sph.com.sg IF YOU’RE a penniless guy in your late 20s with dark circles under your eyes and have no time to go around with a girlfriend, you’re
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      Lock icon The dowry’s too high, sayang
      680 5  -  Malay males who want to marry need at least $7,000 By Thao Thu Hua thao@sph.com.sg AT A time when young people are being told to hurry up and start a family, some Malay couples are finding the road to matrimony paved with heavy tolls, especially
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      Lock icon A grand wedding for dotcom couple
      300 5  -  By Denyse Yeo denyse@sph.com.sg THE bride wore an exquisite hand-beaded, halter-neck sari flown in from India, and the groom a black Nehru-styled suit. Their 800 guests feasted on goose liver and Peking duck while they oohed and aahed at the massive three-tiered white chocolate
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      Lock icon SIA behind in online service
      409 6 Others let you print boarding passes, or check flight schedules via WAP phones, among other things SINGAPORE Airlines’ desire to connect passengers “anywhere, anytime and on any device” may sound ground-breaking, but just how innovative is the airline? A check with the websites of several
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      657 6  -  GOVERNMENT’ S PLEA By Ng Hwee Koon hweekoon@sph.com.sg ONLY half of elderly Singaporeans aged 61 and above have Medishield coverage. And this is why the Government has been prompted to get as many old people as possible covered under the national insurance scheme. Now
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      Lock icon The torture trail
      659 7  -  Singapore team takes on the world’s toughest expedition Words And Pictures By Yen Meng Jiin yen@sph.com.sg BY DAY, they held full-time jobs. By night, the working attire went out the window, replaced with training gear to prepare them for what is widely considered the world’s most gruelling
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      Lock icon Going underground
      30 8 Engineers inspecting part of the tunnel section that leads from Buangkok MRT Station to Hougang'MßT Station. The tunnel forms part of the Northeast MRT line. Yen Meng Jiin
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    • Local LOG
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        133 8 Contamination incident sparks move THE Ministry of Environment (ENV) and Public Utilities Board (PUB) will check all buildings over 25 years old for possible contamination in their plumbing. These buildings are not covered under a 15-year-old law which requires sewage pipes to be
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        97 8 DRINK Kiwi lager? Start popping those beer tabs. Under a new trade agreement to be negotiated with New Zealand, Singaporeans will be able to get cheaper New Zealand-made products, including beer, textiles, clothing and footwear. New Zealand Trade Negotiations Minister Jim Sutton said yesterday
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        121 8 THE Singapore police yesterday handed 60 stolen Malaysian vehicles over to the Royal Malaysian Police, after smashing a car theft syndicate last month. The syndicate had been refurbishing the vehicles, worth some $3 million, providing forged documents and shipping them through Singapore to a
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        Lock icon Creating more tech-savvy people
        171 8 SO THIS is how you get a high-tech society, by the most effective low-tech means available: Word of mouth. At least, that’s what the e-Ambassador programme plans to do. Organised by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) and 10 agencies, the programme actively recruits volunteers
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        142 8 THE body count is rising. Yet another host of the hugely popular TCS 8 show City Beat, Bryan Wong, has quit MediaCorp’s Chinese entertainment division to join the newly set up SPH Media Works. His last day at Media Corp is Aug 30. His decision
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        102 8 CIVIL servants who helped build the nation in its early years will receive a hongbao in November. The Government has set aside a total of $16.5 million in ex-gratia payments to reward retired Members of Parliament, office holders and pensioners for their contributions to
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        293 9 Wires MOSCOW The families of the Russian sailors who died in the sunken nuclear submarine will each receive about US$7,OOO ($11,900) in compensation, the equivalent of more than 10 years’ pay, said the Interfax news agency yesterday. It quoted Deputy Prime Minister Valentina Matviyenko,
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        195 9 AP JAKARTA Former Indonesian President Suharto’s corruption trial will start next Thursday, and he has been ordered to attend despite claims that he is brain damaged, a top judge said yesterday. Chief Judge Lalu Mariyun, who will preside over the trial, said the court
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        142 9 Wires SYDNEY A group of Sydney’s most glamorous drag queens will frock up in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, outfits to take a starring role in the Olympic Games’ closing ceremony Down Under. They will perform on a float that is a “tribute to drag”
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        Lock icon Malaysian economy slows down slightly
        143 9 Reuters KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s economy expanded by 8.8 per cent in the second quarter of this year. This is slightly slower than what analysts had forecast and less faster than growth in the first quarter. A poll on Monday yielded a consensus GDP growth forecast
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      351 9 Choice of Prijadi leads to fall in rupiah Wires JAKARTA Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday unveiled his long-awaited Cabinet line-up which boasted one surprise. He named banker Prijadi Prapto Subardjo, who recently failed a central bank test to see if he was fit and proper
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      484 11 Such sites offer anything and everything to woo casual surfers REMEMBER the near pandemonium when Hongkong tycoon Li Ka Shing’s website, tom.com, went public in March? Well, earlier this month, the company reported record losses of HK5148.52 million (5533.1 million) for the second quarter. One
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      39 11 A young Chinese man tiying out a new foreign bike produced locally at a trade show in Shanghai yesterday. Foreign companies are planning to increase their investments in China after the country’s expected entry into the WTO.
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      209 11  -  Francis Kan BE WARNED, there’s at least one insane chap behind this site. But don’t click out, because that’s how the resident financial expert at Shareinvestor refers to himself. And we’ll bet our last share that when it comes to dollars and cents, Mr
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      215 11 AFP KUALA LUMPUR NV Multi Corp, the first undertaker in Southeast Asia to secure a stock market listing, made a strong debut on the Malaysian exchange yesterday. Banking on the region’s greying population, the company said that it hopes to venture into Indonesia and Singapore
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      81 11 Straits Times Index (STI) Top 3 Active VOLUME CENTS Ionics 24,399,000 66 Trek 16,360,000 110 Sunlight 15,894,000 37.5 Top 3 Gainers CENTS SPH 2880 *50 +1.8 SembLog 1080 *50 *4.9 SPH 100 2880 *50 *1.8 Total number of gainers: 84 Top 3 Losers CENTS +A: PacCent 2230 450 -6.3
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      1080 12 Give ns help, plead the infertile Aug 23 SHOULD the Government subsidise infertility treatments? Minister Lim Boon Heng, who leads the committee to oversee declining birth rates, said: “We should concentrate on the bigger issues, and not on peripheral issues, like infertility.” Readers respond: I READ with
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      25 2 #http://www.forbes.com/ asap/ 00/0403/056a.htm It’s actually quite easy to hack a bank, says Forbes. www.businessweek.com/ebiz/ 0006/epo626.htm The problem with cyberbanks is obsession with price, not service.
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      26 2 (food morning! Showers in the morning and early afternoon affecting northern and western Singapore. High: 32C 1 Low: 24C Tides: 5.46AM/2.1M 5.30PM/2.4M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/ metsin
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      43 3 Is paternity leave important to you? Tell us why in our forum. Also, find out what fathers enjoy in countries like Finland. At asial.com.sg/ Closer to home, log on to www.fathers.org.sg to find out what you can do to bond with your child.
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      50 4 Mm WmWWfflW PROFILE In their late 20s and 30s. 64 per cent earn much less than they did earlier. Most stay in HDB flats. About half are single. Many work 13 hours a day and sleep just five. Check out the extreme statistics our dotcom survey revealed at http^/eyebalL asiaJLconusg
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      52 5 Are Singaporean weddings, in general, getting too expensive to hold? Air your views at Also, catch our exclusive video of music portal queen Shabnam Melwani and Justin Reis’ wedding. Should there be help for the infertile? Join in the fray at .com-sg. A selection of views will be published here
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      26 12 Click on Should there be help for the infertile? Join in the fray at httpV/eyeforum. asial.com.sg/. A selection of views will be published here every day.
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      592 14 Software doesn’t have to cost you an arm and leg. STEVEN NG (stevenng@sph .com.sg) shows you how to get your moneys worth via the Net. Calling^^^JH all pirated software users: Ever dreamed of going straight? It’s easier than you think. Almost everything that you have to pay for
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      Lock icon US dotcoms adopt new pay methods
      259 14 THE NEW ECONOMY Reuters US INTERNET ventures are becoming more like traditional “brick-and-mortar firms” in the way they compensate employees, offering more cash along with stock options, a survey released on Tuesday found. The study by the consulting firm Pricewaterhouse Coopers found that while
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      Lock icon Easy to eliminate spam from your e-mail diet
      161 15  -  Steven Ng FILTERS are an easy way of automatically sending incoming spam to your e-mail account’s trash folder rather than your inbox. Say your Hotmail account regularly receives spam from an e-mail address such as spam@irritating_ spam.com. Try the following: Click on
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    • Tech FILES
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      Lock icon Testing, testing...
      817 16 Curious about pop psychology and what makes you tick? L1M PUAY LENG (puayleng@sph.com.sg) takes you through the seemingly wondrous but sometimes wacky world of online personality tests. Be warned: Too much knowledge could be hazardous to your mental health. The Spark http://www.thespark.com DISCOVER the Hyde in you. This
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      60 14 Would you give up pirated software to use free alternatives? Yes, I want my PC rid of virus-ridden pirated software Yes, the free stuff sound quite good No, are you kidding? My “free” software beats free software any time Take our online poll at http;//eyeball.asial.com.sg For a huge list of
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  • EyeSport
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      Lock icon Vialli’s foot in mouth — again
      660 17  - Vialli’s foot in mouth again Hasselbaink mad over substitution By Adam Hashidy hashidy@sph.com.sg GIANLUCA Vialli has to put his foot somewhere: Earlier it used to be on the ball, now it’s in his mouth. In the swanky London side’s 0-2 loss to minnows Bradford City, £l5million (5538.4 million) striker Jimmy
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      Lock icon Vieira says he is not leaving Arsenal
      302 17  -  FRENCH HOTHEAD SQUELCHES SPECULATIONS Adam Hashidy SORRY, anti-Arsenal fans. At least until this season is over, it looks like Patrick Vieira will still be creating havoc on the pitches of the English Premier League. Ever since his second red card of the season,
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      395 20 TRADES MAKE MIAMIA A SERIOUS CONTENDER ALONZO Mourning is ready to dominate. “To dominate and have a good time,” said the Miami Heat centre. Speaking during a stopover in New York City, Mourning said that despite a disappointing playoff loss to the Knicks last season,
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      Lock icon Time for Ewing to give it up
      473 20  -  The big guy’s body is giving up on him By Luke Pachymuthu luke@sph.com.sg PATRICK Ewing needs to screw his head on right. This idea of playing for three more years is ridiculous. But he doesn’t seem to think so. After the four-team mega-trade
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      41 20 Toronto Blue Jays’ Carlos Delgado connects for a double, following up a two-run home run, his 36th of the season, earlier in the game against the Minnesota Twins in American League baseball action. Toronto won, 3-2. Reuters
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        558 21  -  Norman wants golf included in 2004 By John Crean pettime@sph.com.sg FORE! Golf is shooting for the Olympics. First on the tee with his thoughts on why golf should be an Olympic sport was Greg Norman, who has never been shy about airing his opinions. Norman,
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    • REWIND
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        Lock icon Getting high on goals and drugs
        523 21  -  By Luke Pachymuthu luke@sph.com.sg SIX years ago this week, Robbie Fowler scored the fastest hat-trick in the Premiership, while Tottenham Hotspur’s Jurgen Klinsmann struck thrice in two games and Diegp Maradona was banned from playing soccer for 15 months. The 19-year-old Fowler, who notched
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      Lock icon Pakistan beats S Africa, enters final
      435 22 S’PORE CHALLENGE Wires PAKISTAN’S cricket team can now put its feet up for a few days and" watch the action from the pavilion. The Pakistanis yesterday ensured themselves of a place in the Godrej Singapore Challenge final when they defeated South Africa by 28
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      Lock icon Hakkinen could call it a day
      480 22 With a baby on the way, the Flying Finn may retire if he wins championship Wires LONDON Let’s face it, there can be only one Mika Hakkinen on the circuit. And there’s every chance that the champion racer will make way for Mika Junior.
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      Lock icon Doping is here to stay
      488 23 Christie just one of many Wires SO, LINFORD Christie has been banned for two years for doping. The British sprinter, who was caught with traces of the steroid nandrolone, joins the list of big-name Olympians who have tarnished the sport. The fact that the Barcelona
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      19 20 Catch Zo on the web at these addresses: shaq.itgo.com/ nba/alonzo mourning.html. www.onhoops.com/ content/playerarticles/....20 mourning.html. www.findhoops. com/mourning.html. Also visit asial.com.sg
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  • Unwind
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      960 24 Bull runs and putting greens do not turn them on, iz-inch Han Solos and Batmobiles do. KARL HO (karl@sph.com.sg) looks at the men who become boys when it comes to toys. ARK Fong, the creative L T J director of an advertising i i I agency, has
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        410 25  -  Karl Ho WANT to start collecting cool action figures? Try the McFarlane Exhibition 2000, which begins tomorrow in Sogo at Raffles City, starting at 10 am. The 10-day toy show will bring in the latest series of meticulously sculpted action figures by
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        Lock icon Gardener set finds hip niche
        375 25  -  By Karl Ho karl@sph.com.sg Karl Ho THEY don’t brandish submachine guns; they sport tattoos and hipster jeans. These dudes don’t come with red plastic Ferraris; they have goatees and skateboards instead. And they’re not available in toy shops either. In fact, these 12-inch action figures
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    • Movies
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        Lock icon The big chill
        462 26 SANDI TAN (sandi@sph.com.sg) exposes one of Singapore's best kept secrets the cinema as meat locker... THERE’S a legendary meat room at the Fairway supermarket in upper Manhattan with big black padded jackets hanging outside. You pick one closest to your size (always at least three sizes bigger
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      • Hollywood GOSSIP
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          120 28 ALEC Baldwin got along well with Sex And The City lead Sarah-Jessica Parker on the set of their new film, David Mamet’s State And Main. Now the lovestruck lug wants to audition for Sex. “I told her I’d love to play a part on Sex And
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          59 28 CHARLIE’S Angels, move over. Variety reports the 1983-87 hit NBC series The A Team will be developed by Fox 2000 into a widescreen, live action movie. The original series had four elite ex-Vietnam commandos who returned to the US to handle covert operations for cash. The
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          77 28  -  Jeanmarie Tan Among those in the VIP section: Jodie Foster, Sandra Bullock and Ron Howard. Apart from these well-behaved celebs, the VIP balcony was noisy during the show, which attracted 2,500 people in all. The racket made the Gladiator shout at them a few times during the concert:
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        Lock icon Vintage Verhoeven
        1327 28  -  All reviews by Sandi Tan. THE HOLLOW MAN (PG) Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue THIS may sound like a veiled insult, but it’s not: Paul Verhoeven’s a first-rate director of pulpy B-movies. Do you think that The Interrogation Scene would have become part of cultural lore if a hack
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      • Cyber SNITCH
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          80 29 FOR those who were too innocent or too jaded to have seen Paul Verhoeven’s Showgirls in 1995, check out the film’s website at www.mgmua.com/ showgirls. This renovated site (the original crashed two servers after one million users logged on during its first day) brags about the number of
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          50 29 FOR a very, very early look at Pearl Harbour, the World War II action drama starring Ben Affleck and Cuba Gooding Jr, logon to http://realguide.com /movies/?s=movies_ features&sub= pearlharbor. The Michael Bay directed, Jerry Bruckheimer produced movie is not due out in the United States till late May 2001.
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          Lock icon Fincher’s next
          95 29 A SPY from the Ain’t It Cool movie news site reports that at an Edinburgh Film Festival press session last week, Darius Khondji, the revered cinematographer who gave Se7en its distinctive look, announced that his next project would reunite him with Se7en and The Fight Club director David
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          29 29 Kate: “Hey, I believe in relationships. Mine just happen to be short ones/’ Adam: “So you’re like a whore?” From the movie Love Sex.
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        148 29  -  Sam I-shan Buena Vista Fight Club http://www.newvenue.com/feature SHORT-MOVIE plots often sound cuter than they really are. In Evan Mather’s (Vert, Quentin Tarantino’s Star Wars) Buena Vista Fight Club, Cubans run through a Scandinavian furniture catalogue, beating up the models and spraying fake blood on the glossy pages. It
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        717 30 Paul Verhoeven is big on blood, gore, sex and obscenity. SAUDI TAN (sandi@sph.com.sg) meets the director of The Hollow Man. E’S got a doctorate in maths and physics, so his roots probably lie in the rational. Yet director Paul Verhoeven has something akin to cinematic Tourettes’ syndrome
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        Lock icon YOU KNOW YOU’RE WATCHING A PAUL VERHOEVEN FILM WHEN...
        133 30 They seal up a guy’s badly-punctured stomach with masking tape and he survives! (The Hollow Man) The heroes we root for are a Nazi-esque army, with a commander who tells them: “If you don’t do your job, I’ll shoot you!”. (Starship
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          88 31 Hard Rock Cafe 50 Cuscaden Road, #O5-01 f HPL House ASPIRING pimp daddies and street walkers take note. Hard Rock Cafe is throwing a Pimp and Ho Party. Watch pole dancers do their Showgirls routine and get sloshed on $4 shooters. So start pulling out your
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          221 31  -  Karl Ho 5, Emerald Hill Cocktail Bar 5, Emerald Hill Road NOW, there are two more reasons to go to No 5. Weary rat-race contestants can perk up with two more new vodka potions. The first, Ginseng Infusion, is sure to stoke libidos and probably goes down better
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        339 31 Singapore’s clubbing scene gets a new addition on Orchard Road next month. KARL HO (karl@sph.com.sg) zooms in on the 7,000 sq ft Roar... Thanks to the rebounding economy, the super club is back. Roar, a 7,000 sq feet mega club, will open officially on Sept 1. It
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        555 32 Which club in town has the most potent cocktail? KARL HO (karl@sph .com.sg) drinks on the job to find out JUST as every WWF wrestler has a trademark manoeuvre, every hip club has a signature cocktail. “Chicken rice is chicken rice, but there are many ways to prepare
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        653 34 JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg) gatecrashes Dick Lee’s 44th birthday party, and comes away tickled pink. “PINK is the new black,” quoth Dick. And so it was. At Lush Bar last night, where Dick Lee celebrated his 44th birthday (which is actually today), pink was the theme. “It’s cheekily Dick,”
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      36 30 Elisabeth Shue plays a scientist in Paul Verhoeven’s latest movie, The Hollow Man, which also stars Kevin Bacon, who injects himself with an invisibility serum. To hear an audio interview with Shue, log on to httpV/eyehall.asial.coifi.sg
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      658 35 Tube Talk Movies Blazing Saddles 9.45 am Cinemax 59 Wild, wacky spoof of every cliche in the western film genre by Mel Brooks. Black Bart, a convict, is offered a reprieve if he will become a sheriff and clean up a nasty frontier town. Trouble is, all previous recipients of
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    154 36 It’s touted as the toughest race in the world, the expedition-style Eco-Challenge (above). This year’s race Sabah 2000. See our exclusive photo gallery of the Singapore team in training. http://eveball.asial.com.sg The “Mad Chinaman” turns 44 this year, and Eyeball attended his special birthday bash at Lush last night.
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    231 36 WE’RE so immersed in the movie experience, sometimes it’s hard to distinguish the real from the cinematic. Just imagine if everyday life were like the movies... If you are blonde and pretty, it is possible to become a world expert on nuclear fission at the age of
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      138 36 Let ns know what yon think Today’s polls, and where to vote: Is paternity leave important to you? http://eveball.com.sg/ Eyeball/News Would you give up pirated software to use freeware alternatives? http://eyeball.com.sg/ Eyeball/Tech URLs Roadmap to the Internet, from stories in the newspaper: Everything you wanted to know about the Eco-Challenge,
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