Project Eyeball, 7 December 2000

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Thursday, December 7, 2000 80 CENTS
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      437 1 WHO?! The movie, based on an American icon, is sweeping the US box offices, but it may not translate well abroad. And, how good of a film is it anyway? See Pages 19-20,22 BUT IT’S NOT FREE Now you have to pay US$5O (5587.50) a year to hear 26 or
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      Lock icon QUICKIES
      191 2 BRITAIN’S Plain English Campaign has given Clueless star Alicia Silverstone this year’s Foot in Mouth award for her interview with The Sunday Telegraph. Her quote? “I think that Clueless was very deep. “I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has
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      Lock icon Pilots group may boycott Taiwan airspace
      422 2  -  It says Taiwan ‘not acting correctly’ in detaining SQ006 pilots Joanna Lim AN INTERNATIONAL body, representing some 120,000 airline pilots, has said it was considering a “boycott of Taiwanese airspace”, unless the three pilots of Singapore Airlines Flight SQOO6 are released by the Taipei
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    • Eyebal NEWS
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        Lock icon Banyan Tree Bintan hit by strike
        260 2 IF YOU’RE craving a relaxing spa session at the posh Banyan Tree Bintan with a fantastic seaview, you might want to think again. Now may not be the best time to head to the luxurious beach resort, not because it’s the school holidays and
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      • Article
        Lock icon Sing Tel plans faster Net services
        100 2 SINGAPOREANS can expect increased broadband access and high-speed Internet services come next year. Sing Tel announced yesterday it will invest $420 million to upgrade and expand its mobile and fixed-line networks here over the next 12 to 18 months. Some $9O million will go
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        Lock icon Quarterly results for firms mooted
        165 2 HERE’S some good news for local investors: You could soon be looking at annual reports that reveal much more. The Disclosure and Accounting Standards Committee, in a consultative paper presented yesterday, has recommended that Singapore should move towards a “disclosure-based system of regulation” to maintain
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      Lock icon Asia Watch
      311 3 MANIPUR A secret report sent to India’s PM describes a state of anarchy in the north-eastern state of Manipur, where People’s Liberation Army militants move freely in government offices removing classified documents and most police stations have been abandoned. I COLOMBO At least three people were killed and
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      Lock icon Caucus to criticise Gus Dur
      114 3 But not aimed at toppling him Wires JAKARTA Turning up the heat on Indonesia’s beleaguered President Abdurrahman Wahid, opposition lawmakers yesterday established a parliamentary caucus to criticise his performance. “The government cannot afford to ignore us,” said Ade Komarudin, an MP. But former chief economics
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      Lock icon Malaysia ‘will not censor Net’
      152 3 Wires KUALA LUMPUR The Internet will not be censored, reiterated the Malaysian government yesterday, but warned it could take legal action over defamatory and false information. The government had no intention of controlling information over the Net despite a surge in junk-mail, said Chia Kwang
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      Lock icon Media challenge to monarchy laws
      139 3 AP LONDON Britain’s The Guardian newspaper said yesterday it was challenging two legal pillars of the monarchy in court on the grounds that they violate human rights. It said the Act of Settlement of 1701 and the Treason Felony Act of 1848 clash with Britain’s
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      Lock icon Israel avoids hitting back at Jordan
      121 3 Wires JERUSALEM Israel has shied away from raising tensions with Jordan despite provocation after the second shooting attack on Israeli embassy staff in just over two weeks. Yesterday, Shlomo Razabi, an Israeli administrative employee with diplomatic status, was shot at by a gunman as
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
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        Lock icon Left leads to Aljunied GRC? Think again
        810 4 Hard to build communities with boundary headaches ZULKEFLEE Abdul Rahim, 37, lives in Simei. That’s fine, except he pays his conservancy fees to the Aljunied Town Council, votes in the Aljunied Group Representative Constituency and turns to the Northeast Community Development Council for
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      Lock icon A confusion of councils and constituencies
      165 5 It will cause confusion... you don’t know where to go to.’ Sabrina Ng, 32, human resource executive A stays across B in the Jurong area, but was part of the electorate at the Hong Kang GRC, and his town council is Hong Kah as
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      Lock icon Many clueless about constituencies and representatives
      462 5 Alvin Chow, 35, manager, Simei Town Council: Aljunied (Aljunied) GRC: Not sure (Aljunied) MP: David Lim? (BG George Yeo, David Lim, Sidek Saniff, Dr Toh See Kiat, Ker Sin Tze) CDC: Don’t know (North East) “A more defined boundary will make it more convenient
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      Lock icon You mean Yishun and Jurong are neighbours?
      337 5 IF YOU are from Aljunied, you have every right to be more than a bit confused. How do you explain the fact that Aljunied Avenues 2,3,4 and 5, Aljunied Crescent, Aljunied Link and Upper Aljunied Road, which form the entire Aljunied area, complete
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    • Singapore
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        Lock icon It may take longer to become a doctor
        878 6  -  Plans afoot for graduate medical school By Wong Sher Maine sher@sph.com.sg IT’S pretty straightforward now. If you want to be a doctor, troop off to the National University of Singapore (NUS) after your GCE A Levels or army stint. But it may
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    • The World
      • US Elections 2000
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          Lock icon Gore’s last stand
          859 8 Time and the courts conspire to push him farther away from the White House SALON.COM TALLAHASSEE Al Gore’s chances in Tallahassee now are about as remote as Warren Christopher winning a Florida State University wet T-shirt contest, say legal experts. Not only was Gore’s motion to contest
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          Lock icon Bush and Gore can learn a few things from Chad
          270 8 THE SAINT Reuters LONDON The US presidential election moves in mysterious ways, forging an odd relationship between the Internet and a medieval English saint. The website of a church in central England has been swamped with Americans reading about Chad.
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        Lock icon Cheney heading for the big tax cut
        682 9  -  Potential Vice-President’s economic outlook is bad news By Paul Krugman NYT NEW YORK It has become fashionable to say that if and when George W Bush makes it to the White House, Dick Cheney will be the de facto president. This may be
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        Lock icon ‘Come see what I do at work, Mom’
        509 9 BRIDGING THE CYBER-GENERATION GAP NYT NEW YORK It used to be that companies had “take-your-kids-to-work day” so Junior could see dad’s office. Now, a dotcom company is turning that trend on its head so parents can figure out what it is that
        – NYT; Paul Eric Roca  -  509 words
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        Lock icon Site to log your original idea while patenting it
        363 11  -  SERVICE PROVES WHO THOUGHT OF IT FIRST By Toh Bee Ping beeping@sph.com.sg LAWYERS are giving a thumbs-up to a new intellectual property service offered by US-based company, red Patent, which opened its Singapore office on Tuesday. They say the Web-based tool,
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        Lock icon Tech pros work longer, do less and move out
        471 11 Survey says productivity is down but job mobility is up Reuters NEW YORK Technology professionals are clocking longer hours, but producing less, and are it greater risk of jumping ship for a new job than ever before, an annual survey of
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        Lock icon Internet on the go
        32 11 A pedestrian using an ‘e-Infoterminar at an ‘intelligent’ Berlin bus stop. It brings the Internet to the street, allowing people to access e-mail and use a cardphone. Reuters
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        Lock icon Surfing the net on water
        163 11 Reuters KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia is making sure that its people in remote villages do not miss the boat when it comes to the 21st century and its driving force, information technology (IT). Starting next year, an Internet boat will cruise the jungle-fringed Rajan River in
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    • Technology
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        Lock icon The future is DIGITAL TV The future is COSTLY
        509 10  -  Govt urged to kill analogue By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg IF YOU want to continue watching your favourite TV stars well into the future, be prepared to pay. It looks like it’s going to be digital television or bust for Singapore broadcasters
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        Lock icon Online music will not be cheap either
        641 10 MP3.COM RELAUNCHES MUSIC LOCKER SERVICE, BUT WITH A FEE Lat-Wp MP3.COM relaunched its online music locker service on Tuesday with a twist: A US$5O-per-year (5587.70) fee for consumers who want to store and play more than 25 CDs. The fee reflects the legal
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    • Business
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        Lock icon Bulls&Bears
        80 13 Straits Times Index (STI Top 3 Active VOLUME CENTS PacCent 59,751,000 112 Omlnd 24,548,000 292 Chartered 23,192,000 590 Top 3 Gainers CENTS Creative 50 2350 120 5.4 Venture 1580 70 4.6 DBS 2000 70 3.6 Total number of gainers: 207 Top 3 Losers CENTS Strike 19 19.5 -50.6 SIA
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        Lock icon BIZ SITE OF THE DAY www.apeclink. com
        174 13  -  Nicholas Yong IF YOU are new to Singapore and looking for a place, log on to apeclink.com. Designed to “assist busy Senior Corporate Personnel and businessmen relocating to Singapore”, this “one-stop relocation centre” aims to help expats find the property that suits their
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        Lock icon MAS to allow foreigners big investment loans
        359 13  -  They can borrow over $5m to sink into stocks and commercial real estate By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg THE floodgates have been thrown open for investments in the local stock and bond markets. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said yesterday that foreigners will
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        Lock icon Greenspan hints at possible rate cut
        472 13 U.S ECONOMY COOLING DOWN Wires NEW YORK “C”, we told you. That was the word in 5 the markets around the world after the “c” word was finally uttered. US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, the man whose voice moves markets around the world,
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    • Mailbox
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        Lock icon Crappy computers
        680 14  -  A culture of carelessness seems to have taken over in high-tech America. The personal computer is a shining model of unreliability because the high-tech industry today actually exalts sloppiness as a modus operand!. SALON.COM By Cheryll Aimee Barron HAVE you had a rat’s nest of computer-related problems take
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      • Article
        Lock icon Another PR gaffe for China
        178 14 Battle over Chinese domain names (Dec 6) CHINA wants jurisdiction over all Chinese-language domain names on the Internet. Should it be allowed such a monopoly? Here’s what some Eyeball readers thought. MONEY-SPINNER? HMM, another way to make money! Within Singapore, how many people know how
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      • Article
        Lock icon GOING FOR TESTS
        64 14 WOULD you get yourself and your partner(s) tested for STDs? Here’s what Eyeball readers thought: 37% Sure, sounds like a sensible idea. 23%-Nah, we stay faithful and we play safe. 23% Partner? What partner? 7%-No, it’s crude and boorish even to ask. 10%- I’m not sure I
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      • Eyeballing THE NET
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          Lock icon Give e-gifts? Not for pals here
          563 15  -  By Eri Akbar eri@sph.com.sg ’TIS a season of all reasons for shopping. The long-awaited bonus is finally here, ready to be lavished on gifts, and used for giving the house a fresh look for the new year. Christmas timeliness is impeccable. And retailers must
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          Lock icon Audrey’s a nice name for a dinosaur
          516 15  -  By Adeline Goh adel@sph.com.sg THE IT world has had enough of its share of flops. Remember PC television tuners, scanner stylus pens, and Pocket PC devices? No? Well, you can probably add names like the Audrey, MSN Companion, iPaq, and the Connected Touch
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      28 2 Qood morning! Showers with thunder are expected in the late afternoon and early evening affecting most areas. High: 32C 1 Low: 24C Tides: 7.56AM/2.5M B.IBPM/2.4M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      24 6 Are 18-year-olds too young to decide if they want to study medicine? Should they take a first degree, then decide? Tell us at http://eyehall.asial.com.sg
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      30 8 For the latest developments, log onto http^/eyebalLasiaJLcomjgg http:// www.villagevoice.com/issues/0049/ electl/shtml Why a Bush-Lieberman administration could be a possibility. http://www.thenewrepublic.com/*****0/ sunsteinl2lloo.htm Both Bush and Gore are putting on presidential airs. Sill-
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      20 10 Tell us what you would like to see on digital television, at http://eyebaJl.asial.com.sg. Learn more about digital television at http://www.pbs.org/opb/crashcourse.
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      51 12 #s^ V mm i 4 :k HM WmsW: RV? .r Our Money pages don share prices and exchange They go deep into the backgro behind mega deals and corporate shake-ups. Edited by Paul Jansen, who's anything but shallow. In one of our five handy sections MyStraitsTimes Call 388 3838 for
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      127 15 Here’s a list of my all-time favourite virtual shopping hang-outs: http://www.efrenchkiss.com A local site selling lingerie. http://www.iunkfunkmunk.com A local site selling bags for ladies. http://www.eworldofsports.com Another local site, this time selling major sporting brands. http://www.cdnow.corn An international portal selling CDs according to genre. http://shopping.yahoo.com/Beautv An international portal selling beauty products
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  • EyeSport
    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Lazio stunned
        64 16 Reuters ROME A well-worked 80th-minute strike by Alan Smith, assisted by a back heel from Australian Mark Viduka, gave Leeds United a shock 1-0 win at Lazio in a Group D clash, handing the Rome side their second straight defeat in the competition. Lazio, left rooted at the
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        Lock icon Real ram it in
        80 16 AFP MADRID Spanish giants Real Madrid sounded an ominous warning to their Champions League rivals by thrashing Anderlecht 4-1 in another Group D match. Goals from Fernando Morientes, Luis Figo (penalty), Ivan Helguera and a Roberto Carlos free kick leave Real Madrid firmly in the Group
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      • Article
        Lock icon Anderson sparkles
        52 16 AFP LYON Sonny Anderson fired in two goals for Lyon in a 3-0 win over Spartak Moscow in a Group C match. Steve Marlet opened the scoring on two minutes, then Anderson netted in the 31st and 42nd minutes to give them the hope of qualifying for next
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        Lock icon NBA WRAP
        188 18 Grizzlies 91 Pistons 83 IN VANCOUVER, British Columbia backup centre Bryant Reeves grabbed two critical rebounds and sank four crucial free throws in the fourth quarter as Vancouver won for the third time in 11 games. Hawks 92 Heat 100 A.C. GREEN scored a season-high 14 points as
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      Lock icon QUOTE OF THE DAY
      26 16 “WE’VE given ourselves a chance. We’re back in the hunt!” Leeds manager David O’Leary, after his side’s shocking 1-0 win over Lazio.
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      Lock icon Fed up of it all
      429 16  -  Coach Jita Singh says S-League needs total revamp By Luke Pachymuthu luke@sph.com.sg ONE of Singapore’s most accomplished football coaches is disillusioned with the state of local soccer and the local league. “There is no challenge anymore,” Jita Singh, who led the Lions to Malaysia Cup
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      Lock icon Gunners held to a draw
      491 16  -  BAYERN MUNICH FIGHT BACK By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg FOR 55 minutes yesterday, Highbury rocked. In the end, though, it was the fat lady from across the English Channel who wooed the crowd as the German band played on. Arsenal blew a two-goal lead in what
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      Lock icon Xtreme Xpectations
      546 17  -  S’porean team heads for biggest challenge ever By Adam Hashidy hashidy@sph.com.sg PIPES and dreams are what Singapore’s leading extreme athletes will be chasing this weekend. For many among these 27 local daredevils competing in Phuket, Thailand, it will be the greatest challenge of their lives as they confront
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    • Tee TIME
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        Lock icon Play with the best, to be among the best
        305 18  -  CHOI LIVING OUT A DREAM By John Crean eyesport@eyeball.com.sg AMBITIOUS Asian professionals competing in the Singapore Open this week would do well to heed the motto of Korea’s Choi Kyung Ju: “To be among the best, you have to play with
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      Lock icon One jump closer
      642 18  -  Malone, Bryant and Iverson nearer to meeting their destiny By Luke Pachymuthu luke@sph.com.sg KARL Malone is a Louisiana redneck waiting for the kill. Kobe Bryant is a prince waiting in the wings to claim his crown and Allen Iverson is a hooping rapper waiting to be capped.
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      33 17 Log on to asial.com. sg for daily updates during the course of the competition from our man in Phuket, Adam Hashidy. For an official take of this sporting gala, click on http://www.expn star.com
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  • Unwind
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Who’s The Grinch?
      743 19 lie is an American icon, but the world doesnt know what Jim Carreys latest screen incarnation is, reports RONALD RAJAN (ronrajan@sph.com.sg). THIS holiday season, funnyman Jim Carrey goes green and hairy as The Grinch up on the big screen. “The What?” you ask. Well, The Grinch is
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    • Movies
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        Lock icon SELLING THE SPOOKS: HOW HOMEGROWN HORRORS MIGHT BE MARKETED
        910 20  -  By Ronald Rajan ronrajan@sph.com.sg THERE’S always two sides to the story of course. Just as Uncle Sam has its distinctively American icons, Singapore has its share of resident creepy and culturally-specific spooks. Eyeball challenged some local marketing i wizards to come
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        Lock icon VIP treatment
        910 21 SALON.COM Robert Downey Jr just cant seem to break free from drugs. Who is to blame the star himself or sycophantic Hollywood? MAURA KELLY reports. WHY can’t talented, handsome Robert Downey Jr get over his drug addictions? It’s not as if he doesn’t have anything to live for:
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      • Hollywood GOSSIP
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          122 21 WHAT is it about Angelina Jolie that makes newlywed Billy Bob Thornton go all gushy? Her spunkiness? Her tattoos? The drool oozing out of her mouth as she sleeps? Everybody’s favourite redneck answers that burning question in this month’s issue of Esquire magazine: “Did
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          Lock icon Costner’s Thirteen Days postponed
          109 21  -  SitiHadijah NEW Line Cinema is postponing the nationwide release of its Kevin Costner historical drama Thirteen Days from Dec 22 to Jan 12 next year in the US, entertainment trade magazine Variety reports. The studio was concerned that with so many high-profile films opening in December,
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      • Cyber SNITCH
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          Lock icon Sundance gems
          89 22 INTERESTING picks from Sundance’s announcement of its 2001 line-up on indiewire.com: Three-time entrant Christopher Munch is showing Sleepy Time Gal, a personal drama about a mother and her illegitimate daughter, starring the ever-sexy Jacqueline Bisset. Memento, a time-bending thriller, stars Guy Pearce (LA Confidential) and Carrie Anne-Moss (The
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          Lock icon Clerks II, the movie
          81 22 THE buzz on the Internet since March has been Kevin Smith striking back with the film version of the animated series based on Clerks, his 1994 indie hit. The animated series was canned by ABC TV after just two episodes. Askew Films is taking the unadulterated
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      • Article
        Lock icon Quote of the week:
        27 22 ‘Don’t forget, you’re shoving a pineapple up Hitler’s ass at 4 pm.’ Hellish assistant to Satan (Harvey Keitel), in Little Nicky Clara Chow
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        Lock icon Lynch that Grinch
        539 22  -  Reviews: Sandi Tan THE GRINCH (PG) Jim Carrey, Taylor Momsen, Christine Baranski, Jeffrey Tambor THE Grinch, a seasonal favourite with American children of all ages since 1957, is a fuzzy green thing, like an oversized bread mould. His flaw, we are told, is that “his heart is
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        Lock icon NOW STREAMING
        184 22  -  Clara Chow THE METAMORPHOSIS http://www.ifilm.com FRANZ Kafka’s The Metamorphosis has been turned into a nifty piece of macabre animation. Calling this CGI-piece of genius “dark” is not doing it justice, because it is so chockful of colour, subtle tones and texture. What it is though, is a superbly
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        Lock icon Sandler’s comedy hell
        1307 23 WHITEOUT (PG) Yuji Oda, Koichi Sato, Nanako Matsushima IN ANOTHER example of how popular taste is impossible to predict, this joyless, snowy-mountain thriller is Japan’s highest-grossing film so far this year. The old joke with Speed was that it was pitched as Die Hard On A Bus;
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    • Clubbing
      • Pick of the CLUBS
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          Lock icon CLUB OF THE WERE
          78 24 Velvet Underground 17 Jiak Kim Street UNIVERSAL Music and Chivas are jointly bringing a series of aftershows. On Saturday, you can look forward to Cafe del Mar Vol 7, where renowned resident DJ of Cafe del Mar in Ibiza, DJ Bruno will hold court. This is
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          Lock icon OTHER STOPOVERS
          227 24  -  Siti Hadijah Father Flanagan’s Irish Pub 8106 Chijmes, 30 Victoria Street, the Fountain Court, #Bl-06 THOUGHT the party was over? Nope! Let the father make all of your Christmas wishes come true as he\ throws a party. Go leprechaun greerias you sing to live Irish mukic from Brazenhead,
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        Lock icon Let’s Zouk Out again next year
        619 24 And if it becomes an annual event, it might even reach the heights of mega-raves like the Berlin Love Parade or Ibiza's alfresco madness. KARL HO (karl@sph .com.sg) reports. OUK Out is coming back with a vengeance. Not only have organisers promised a bigger
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        Lock icon Rock back to nature
        335 25 IF YOU want a slice of nature with your music festivals, namely shrieking cicadas, mucky slopes and camping in the occasional rain, then Japan’s Fuji Rock Festival should be right up your alley. The Woodstock of Japan, the Fuji Rock Festival is primarily a paean to
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        Lock icon STREET PARTY
        308 25 Berlin, Germany IT DOESN’T get bigger than this. Arguably the most massive street party in the whole world, the one-day techno extravaganza unites ravers of all colours and stripes under the banner of love and peace, not to mention earns loads of tourist dollars for host city Berlin.
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        Lock icon HOWLING AT THE MOON
        277 25 Koh Pha Ngan, Thailand WEREWOLVES are not the only ones who go ballistic whenever there is a full moon. Once every month, under the baleful glare of the lunar orb, nocturnal animals from all over the world congregate on the sandy shores of Koh Pha Ngan
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        Lock icon WE’RE GOING TO IBIZA
        265 25 Spain PART idyllic beach, part gay sanctuary, part urban club jungle, Ibiza (pronounced ee-bee-tha) is all that and more. It is the quintessential port of call for any self-respecting globetrotting raver, a veritable glowstick of club culture and escapism. Legend has it that English DJs Nicky
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        Lock icon Shake Erap’s bon-bon
        723 26 Reuters In the streets of Manila, Ricky Martins Livin La Vida Loca has become the anthem against Philippine President Joseph Estrada, whose impeachment trial starts today. MALOU MANGAHAS looks at the role music plays in the troubled nation. BHBHHHH USIC appears to L T J be the
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      • The cyber CLUBBER
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          Lock icon www.clubber.co.uk
          63 26 OFFERS industry news and party reviews for the club aficionado read about Home’s first birthday party in Ibiza and Artful Dodger refusing to remix Spice Girls. If you can’t get enough of the latest dance music news, this is the site to go. You can even get free access
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          Lock icon www.raymondo.fsnet.co.uk
          54 26 ALL decked out in London but know not where to go? There’s an easy fix to your dilemma. Log on to this website which offers useful information on the swinging city’s clubbing scene. In addition to the sort of music each club plays, the site also offers its addresses,
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          Lock icon www.danceandsoul.com
          45 26 CLICK on to “the scene” icon and you’ll see the month’s listing of events which will take place in Singapore’s clubbing scene. Plus, you can get information on where to get those dance and vinyl records. The site also offers hyperlinks to individual clubs.
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          Lock icon www.arban75.com
          87 26 COOL UK site with wickedly written info on rave scenes and, er, “interesting” photos of the club scene. Unlike many other sites, this does not come with cheesy ad banners. Besides club info, it also offers tons of crappy games. Just click on The Useless Gallery and you can
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          Lock icon clubs.coolconnect.com
          52 26 ONCE you’re a member, this website will update you with the latest local clubbing news, and allow you to browse through their media albums of party pictures. You can also participate in the members discussion or chat with other clubbers online! Lonely souls can find clubbing partners in the
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      Lock icon CHAT AND MOUSE
      222 27 Seminars for men Combating stupidity. You, too, can do housework. PMS: Learn when to keep your mouth shut. How to fill an ice tray. Women do not want sleazy underthings for Christmas. Understanding the female response to your coming in drunk at 4 am. Laundry techniques. Parenting:
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      437 27 Movies Belly 7am# Star Movies 58 Two childhood friends begin to question the code of the streets and each other’s loyalty. Expect examinations of trust, paranoia and character, as crime and fast money lead to self-destruction. Starring TLC’s Tionne Watkins, Nas and DMX. Michael Jordan: Road To Victory 7 pm
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  • The Back Page
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      Lock icon Thong Song, Sisqo big Billboard winners
      318 28 Wires LAS VEGAS The singer made famous by singing about women’s underwear took home six awards at the Billboard Music Awards while ’N Sync, the Dixie Chicks and Destiny’s Child won four apiece. Sisqo, who scored a hit with The Thong Song, won Male
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        91 28 Ex-Wonderbra model Eva Herzigova (below) is set to engage in a legal battle with a gang of cybersquatters who have set up porno websites using her name. Herzigova, 26, the former wife of Bon Jovi drummer Tico Torres, claims the offending pictures on a number of
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        113 28 Wires MATT Damon would like to rein in any nude comments about All The Pretty Horses. “Only the horse is nude. I was wearing a bikini and (director) Billy Bob Thornton shot around it to make me look nude, so if pictures start appearing on the Internet, they’ve been
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