Project Eyeball, 28 December 2000

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    11 1 projecteyeball eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Thursday, December 28, 2000 80 CENTS
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      391 1 2000’S TOP GADGETS A RAMMER YEAR Gadget-holies had a lot to be thankful for in 2000. From the sleek lines of the Nokia 8210 to the mighty Creative Nomad Jukebox, we name five of the best. See Page 11 STATE OF THE HET BOOKMARKS Spend your time surfing the Web,
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      Lock icon QUICKIE
      117 2 LOUISE Preston is no ordinary cook. She’s turned a salad into mush by, er, defrosting it in the microwave. And she’s packed her husband’s lunch with butter sandwiches after forgetting to put in the ham. Her New Year’s resolution? Improve her culinary skills. That could explain why, when she
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      Lock icon A royal Aidilfitri
      216 2 Two Singapore ministers share lunch with Sultan of Johor FOR National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan and Education Minister Rear-Adm Teo Chee Hean and their wives, it was a royal Hari Raya Aidilfitri literally: They celebrated the occasion with Johor’s Sultan Mahmood Iskandar at his residence. The
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    • Eyeball NEWS
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        Lock icon Pickpocket gang nabbed
        160 2 THESE people chose to pick pockets at, of all places, the Chinese temples. Police on Tuesday managed to catch a nine-member gang who is believed to be connected with a number of thefts reported over the past week. While as many as eight members of the gang
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        Lock icon Marriage at race course
        187 2 A HORSE-DRAWN carriage comes by and stops. Out steps a couple in all their finery as cuests That’s not a scene from the latest romantic Hollywood flick, but an actual marriage that took place here. Tan Tsiang Chet, 29, and his wife Evelyn Wendy Ho, 27,
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        Lock icon Comfort concert a thrilling ride
        208 2 IT WAS decidedly a star-studded ride, and every bit as smooth as one in a Comfort cab. The audience at the Singapore Indoor Stadium embarked on a thrilling musical journey yesterday evening, thanks to the three-member Grasshopper group, which stole the show at a concert
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      343 3 WASHINGTON US President Bill Clinton has signed a Bill that bans the practice of cutting off shark fins and throwing the dying fish back into the sea, targetting Pacific Ocean fishermen supplying fins to Asian markets, where they are prized as a speciality and thought to be an
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      Lock icon Aussie dad kidnaps own child
      343 3 Post-Christmas drama leads to sea, where police swim out to rescue seven-month-old baby Wires ADELAIDE It was the day after Christmas, but for some of Adelaide’s uniformed policemen, the excitement was just beginning. They had to strip down to the their undies and swim out
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      Lock icon CHATTING NATION
      180 4 NETVALUE’S research on chatroom usage found that: 34% THIRTY-FOUR per cent of Internet users in Singapore are regular chatters. Only 7.4 per cent of Hong Kong’s online community use the chat protocol, while less than 10 per cent of users in China, Taiwan, and Korea are avid chatters.
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        Lock icon Singaporeans chat their way to the top
        584 4  -  56% of Net generation swop songs, gossip online By Toh Bee Ping AND Lim Puay Leng beeping@sph.com.sg puayleng@sph.com.sg SINGAPOREANS are right there on top of the list when it comes to chatting online, according to a recent survey by Net research company Net
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      Lock icon Top 10 most visted channels in mIRC
      73 4 The following figures are the average number of users in the mIRC channels in the chat server Galaxynet, Singapore, at any one time. Note: The “U” prefix indicates a chat channel. 001 ’xasit tT *01 001 xnsuSq# ’6 on snn# *8 ozr dodf#
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    • Article
      Lock icon If you want to open your own chatroom
      164 4 FIRST you will need to download the program mire from http://www.mirc.com There’re hundreds of servers you can run your own chatroom on. Just click on the servers list icon when you start up your IRC programme, and take your pick. One popular
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      Lock icon Why the Internet is the place to go
      161 5 ACCESSIBILITY In Singapore, almost three in five homes have a computer. BOREDOM ‘Most of the time, I just watch in silenced Low TeeQuan an IT manager who uses chatrooms to ‘kill time’ TRENDY ‘All of us want to be part of the
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      Lock icon Keeping angry young chatters in line
      553 5  -  By Lim Puay Leng puayleng@sph.com.sg <chatterl> I think you are rude. <chatter2> Cut your holier-than-thou attitude. You are a blardy f**king idiot. <chatter2> F**K you! <chatterl> go to hell! <irritated> SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP! <chatterl> go to hell! [chatter2 kicked out of
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    • The World
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        Lock icon 7 die in shooting at tech firm
        857 6 Angry over tax deductions, employee goes on Killing spree a day after Christmas Wires WAKEFIELD (Massachusetts) An employee at a troubled Internet consulting firm wielding an AK--47 assault rifle, a shotgun and a semi-automatic handgun gunned down seven co-workers in a bloody “work-related”
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        Lock icon Saga of senseless shootings
        723 6 Wires WAKEFIELD (Massachusetts) The shooting at the corporate headquarters of Internet consulting firm Edgewater Technology was the latest in a string of shootings in recent years in US workplaces, schools and churches. Such shootings have intensified the national debate over guns, with some Americans calling for
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        Lock icon Loopholes in US law allow even kids to own a gun
        466 7 Thanks to lobby from pro-gun group Wires WAKEFIELD (Massachusetts) Americans and guns. The two words go together like Adam and Eve, Sonny and Cher, apple pie and ice cream. With the violent shooting in Wakefield near Boston yesterday, one
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        Lock icon Umno Youth must re-invent itself
        624 9 ‘FODDER FOR THE OPPOSITION” KUALA LUMPUR This group once told the formidable Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra, father of independent Malaysia: Set the date for Malayan independence, or else... That ultimatum made history. But today, that same group, Umno Youth (or. Pemuda Umno), which once could
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        Lock icon Bombers still faceless
        535 9 Aidilfitri quiet as Indonesia interrogates suspects in Christmas Eve violence Wires JAKARTA The attackers were politically ambitious, well funded, well co-ordinated. But so far, faceless. The security, on the other hand, -> was lacking when the attacks occurred and had “not reacted swiftly enough”. These admissions came
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      • Article
        Lock icon Webpages should be seen and heard
        612 10 Govt websites to be fully accessible to the physically challenged in six months NEW YORK So what if you can’t see or hear? On the Internet, it doesn’t matter, baby. At least not any longer, reports Wired magazine. If new US federal rules released
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        Lock icon Informaticos – Cuba’s cyber revolutionaries
        432 10 Informaticos Cuba’s cyber revolutionaries WIRED GUERRLLAS Ap HAVANA Murals of revolutionaries are no longer chic in Havana. A nerdy new rebel has replaced the popularity of Che: the Internet guerrilla. His laptop case has replaced the beret as the signature of revolution among thousands of mostly young male professionals, who
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    • Technology
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        Lock icon The year in gadgets
        676 11  -  Eyeball picks five of the best that made a splash in 2000 By Teo Yen Fen y enfen@sph.com.sg Nokia 8210 THIS has got to be the cellphone of the year. Why else would every other person on the streets carry one, and each with a different
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        Lock icon From wild to mild: How hot rods get street legal in minutes
        189 12 L Performance exhaust system: Boosts power and gives a louder, deep-toned sound. Banned: They cause air and noise pollution and make a car harder to handle. Hot-rodder trick: Remove and reinstall after inspection. Also, tips of the tailpipe
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        Lock icon Flouting LTA norms
        701 12  -  Motorists do illegal modifications, and undo them temporarily to beat tests By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg MANY Singaporean mechanics have become experts in hide-and-seek: They can camouflage or remove illegal car modifications in minutes, then put them back when the coast is clear. A total of 807 motorists
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    • Business
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        Lock icon Pre-emptive strikes
        53 13 Striking South Korean bank workers clashing with riot policemen at a bank training centre in Ilsan, north of Seoul, yesterday. Thousands of striking workers have been camped out at the training institute since Friday to protest against the planned merger of their firms, which they fear would lead
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        119 13  -  -Nicholas Yong WWW sgmarket.com IF YOU can’t invest in stocks without consulting those weird-looking technical charts, maybe it’s time to head for this site. Singapore Market Forecaster provides tools that predict market movements and a lot of historical data and charts seven years’ worth, to
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        Lock icon Running away from recession
        715 13  -  US taking a leaf out of Japan’s book will be recipe for disaster By Paul Krugman Nyt NEW YORK When Lucy tells Charlie Brown that this time she really is going to let him kick that football, you know what’s going to happen. When Wile E
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        223 13 Reuters TOKYO Bad news for Asian economies. Instead of the forecast moderate increase, Japan’s industrial production actually fell in November, underscoring a slowdown in the country’s corporate sector that has until now been described as the main engine of growth in Japan’s fragile economic recovery. Output fell 0.8 per cent
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    • Mailbox
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        Lock icon Keeping those bookmarks under control
        223 14 After you’ve been online for a while, your list of bookmarks will grow and grow and grow. To keep track of this unwieldy list try out some of the tips listed below. M Bookmark management sites believe folk who have been in cyberspace for a
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        Lock icon Hit Ctrl-D now!
        649 14  -  By ALVIN PANG alvinp@sph.com.sg HANDS up all those who’ve been around cyberspace for a while, and now have more Internet bookmarks than you’ll ever have time to deal with. It’s happened to the best of us while surfing, you come across a beautifully designed website. Or a
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        802 15  -  DAVE BARRY -Miami Herald DOES this sound like you? You never have enough time. You can’t find anything. You’re surrounded by random piles of paper unanswered letters, overdue bills, a ransom note dated last August (so that’s what happened to little Jason!). If that
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      26 2 Qood morning! Partly cloudy. Showers with thunder over many areas in the late afternoon. High: 32C 1 Low: 25C Tides: 1.24AM/2.6M 12.09PM/3.0M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/ metsin
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      72 7 Gun control and the right to carry arms w are thorny issues in the US. 11 http://www.cnn.com/20QQ/CAREER/ W trends/11/15/rage/index.html Overwrought? Take this survey to see if you suffer from desk rage at work. http://www.millionmommarch.com/ A grassroots organisation fighting to prevent gun-related violence and supporting victims of gun trauma. http:// www.bushandguns.com/
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      47 8 Mmi Unrest in Maluku? Mystery blast in Siberia? You'll read about them in our World and Asia pages Edited by Felix Soh r for whom no place on Earth is too far. In two of our five handy sections si® HI MyStraltsTimes Call 388 3838 for subscription
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      25 9 FOR youth politics in Malaysia, log on to: http://www.asiaweek. com/asiaweek/ magazine/2000/ 0218/ nat.malaysia.html Asiaweek’s assessment of Umno’s restless youth http:/ /www.umnoyouth. org.mv/ Umno Youth website
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      37 10 For more information, visit: http://www.nfb.org/ tech/ webacc.htm Guidelines for making your website accessible to the blind. http:/ www.broadcast. com/television/narrativetv Hollywood movies on the Web for the visually-impaired. http://www.sivideo.com/ captiont.htm Movies on the Web, captioned for the hearing-impaired.
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      59 11 HELEN, SWEETHEART OF THE INTERNET PHIL HOW HA VS YOU 3BBU FBBUUG IAT BUY? Vv> FlWg WHY VO you ASK? c==fc 12-18 wen, m WOUVBRtbiG I FYOURB HAVIMG A MIVUFE CRISIS. WHAT?! C7OWT ©e ABSURV! YOU vobir see Me with a BRA UP-ÜBW FBRRARI PARKBV OUTGIVB, VO YOU? hlO i
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  • EyeSport
    • Sport IN SHORT
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        273 16 Charlotte Hornets 115 Cleveland Cavaliers 110 JAMAL MASHBURN scored eight of his 27 points in overtime as the Hornets stretched their winning streak to a season-high of seven games. Detroit Pistons 101 Boston Celtics 96 IN AUBURN HILLS, Michigan, Jerry Stackhouse poured in 33 points to lift the
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        Lock icon Gilliam dead
        101 17 Ap NASHVILLE (Tennessee) Joe Gilliam Jr, one of the first black quarterbacks to start an NFL game but who later fell into drug addiction and a life on the streets, died Monday of an apparent heart attack, four days before his 50th birthday. Gilliam was dead on arrival
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        74 17 Reuters HEMPSTEAD (New York) Mo Lewis, a pro bowler each of the last three seasons, and fellow linebacker Bryan Cox have re-signed with the New York Jets, coach Al Groh said on Tuesday. Terms were not disclosed by the team, which did not make the playoffs. Both
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        Lock icon Gibson stays
        70 17 Reuters CINCINNATI Defensive tackle Oliver Gibson signed a four-year contract extension through 2005 with the Cincinnati Bengals on Tuesday. Financial terms were not disclosed. “I’m more than happy,” Gibson said. “Try ecstatic.” Gibson would have become a free agent after the 2001 season but chose to stay with
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        Lock icon Fowler’s not leaving
        97 18 Reuters LONDON Liverpool’s England striker Robbie Fowler, who has failed to establish a regular first team place this season after a long-term injury, said he had no plans to leave the English Premier League club. Fowler told The Mirror on Tuesday there had been “a lot of
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        Lock icon Retirement plan
        106 18 Afp BUENOS AIRES AS Roma’s Argentinian goal machine Gabriel Batistuta vowed on Tuesday to retire from all football in two years’ time. Batistuta, who has been in superb form for the Serie A giants this season, said he would bring the curtain down on a glittering Italian club
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        Lock icon Cuba fetes stars
        130 19 Ap HAVANA Cuba’s Olympic gold champions shared top honours on Tuesday for the nation’s best male and female athletes of the year. Unable to choose just one, Cuban sports officials gave the best female athlete award to Olympic judo gold medallists Legna Verdeica and Sibelis Veranes. The
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        42 19 Ap SYDNEY Race leader Shockwave retired yesterday because of gale-force winds while 1997 winner Brindabella withdrew from the Sydney to Hobart yacht race with a damaged hull. Sweden’s Nicorette and Australian maxi Wild Thing are now in the lead.
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        Lock icon Falcon re-signs
        39 19 Reuters BRANCH (Georgia) Tackle Bob Whitfield, 29, who started 123 straight games for the Atlanta Falcons, re-signed with the club for a multi-year deal on Tuesday. Financial terms and other conditions were not disclosed by the club.
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      Lock icon IT’S HOT ON THE BENCH
      80 16 Paul Westphal A players’ rebellion led by Gary 7 Payton, forced the Sonics management to replace head coach Westphal late last month. Reuters Nate McMillan Seattle replaced Westphal with his assistant Nate McMillan, a former Sonics player, and it has made a huge difference to
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      Lock icon Mutineers prove a point
      581 16  -  Nuggets, Sonics better off after spats By Luke Pachymuthu luke@sph.com.sg MUTINY might not be such a bad thing after all. Just ask the Seattle Supersonics and the Denver Nuggets. On Monday, the Nuggets grabbed their fifth-in-a-row against the Los Angeles Clippers. Last Friday night, the Nuggets
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      Lock icon Ready for Super Brawl?
      684 17  -  Twelve teams and as many different paths towards the great mayhem USA Today LOOK at that mob. A disorderly, unruly pack whose actions have become hard to understand and even harder to predict. In other words, we’ve come to discuss the state of the NFL now
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      Lock icon QUOTE OF THE DAY
      37 17 “I WILL have to do some head scratching and see where we go from here.” Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, after his team was shut out on Monday night by the Tennessee Titans.
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      63 18 GLENN HODDLE has been in charge of Southampton for 37 games. It has won 13 of those games, five of those this season. The club has failed to win against all those below it in the Premiership. But despite all this, Tottenham Hotspur’s new owner is reportedly
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      Lock icon Houllier sees glory slip away
      633 18 Middlesbrough humbles Liverpool Reuters LONDON Liverpool, on a high after beating the two top teams in the Premier League, crashed back to earth on Tuesday with a defeat that left manager Gerard Houllier wishing his young side was more mature. Struggling Middlesbrough, last but one
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      Lock icon Everton faces enquiry
      277 18 OBJECT-THROWING INCIDENT Wires LONDON Everton is set to face a Football Association enquiry after Coventry goalkeeper Chris Kirkland was hit on the head by an object thrown from the Goodison Park crowd during his side’s 2-1 victory on Tuesday. Kirkland collapsed, clutching his head, just before the
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      21 19 “HE IS something supernatural.” Five-time British Open champion Tom Watson on Tiger Woods being named AP’s Athlete of the Year.
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      Lock icon Jacobs joins an elite club
      363 19 Windies keeper equals world record Reuters MELBOURNE West Indies wicketkeeper Ridley Jacobs took seven catches in Australia’s first innings of the fourth cricket test in Melbourne on Wednesday, equalling the world record for most dismissals. He thus joined the august company of England’s Bob Taylor
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    • Tee TIME
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        Lock icon You’re performers, so perform!
        387 19  -  GOLFERS’ NO-SHOW DURING FESTIVE SEASON By JOHN CREAN sports@eyeball.com.sg IT’S a pretty safe bet that Tiger Woods and Darren Clarke kicked back and watched some sport during the “holiday” season. Woods, a huge basketball fan, probably took in some hoops, and Clarke likely watched Manchester United
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  • Unwind
    • Movies
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        Lock icon And the Buzz goes to...
        1385 20 Hollywood executives always have their hands full this time of year. They re busy building hype about actors and movies in order to have a shot at next years Academy Awards. THE awards season follows a familiar pattern in Hollywood. Beginning in late autumn, studios
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      • Hollywood GOSSIP
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          105 22 MICHAEL Douglas says he couldn’t help thinking about the pasts of those close to him including his half-brother, Eric and his son, Cameron while playing the father of a drug addict in the new Steven Soderbergh movie, Traffic. “In any role, you try to bring in your
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          Lock icon Coffee, tea or Pitt?
          108 22 BRAD Pitt as a lowly tea boy? Apparently he was reduced to do that while filming Snatch for Madonna’s new husband, Guy Ritchie. “It was a tremendous culture shock to poor Brad because people threw cups in his hand and asked him to make ’em tea,
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          Lock icon Ruffled Crowe
          94 22  -  Siti Hadijah WE IMAGINE Russell Crowe, Meg Ryan’s saucy Kiwi, is sweet to her. But he’s more like Mad Maximus when it comes to the press. “I do resent being hunted and invaded,” Crowe says in the Dec 21 issue of Rolling Stone magazine. “It’s another rank of
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        Lock icon Who’s that Guy?
        612 22 Reuters First, he became Madonnas lover, then her sons father, then her husband. Soon, he'll also become her director in a gangster movie called The Mole. Just who is Quy Ritchie? RITISH film director Guy Ritchie first found fame with Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, a
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        Lock icon All in the family
        581 23 What could he scarier than Robert De Niro as a prospective father-in-law? Well, try his extended family. TAY YEK KEAK (pedas@sph.com.sg) introduces them. In new movie Meet the Parents, Ben Stiller meets the scariest father-in-law imaginable. The former CIA man, played by Robert De Niro, is
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        Lock icon Real comedy, for a change
        1100 24 MEET THE PARENTS (PG) Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Teri Polo, Blythe Danner THE funniest movie of the year arrives here at a time when you most need to laugh the holiday season, when one tends to be stranded in rooms full of relatives one
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        Lock icon Accursed sequel
        557 25 SandiTan THE BOOK OF SHADOWS: BLAIR WITCH 2 (PG) Jeffrey Donovan, Kim Director, Erica Leerhsen THIS could be the most non-eventful sequel since Jean-Pierre Jeunet messed up the lucrative Alien franchise with Alien Resurrection. The follow-up of the inventive, low-budget Blair Witch Project is, predictably, a slicker, *upider
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        160 25 June Wan ANGRY KID: QUEEN’S SPEECH www.atomfilms.com Time: 1 min 46 secs ANGRY KID, with sister tied to the Christmas tree, decides he wants to give a Christmas address to the nation in his own inimitable way. Shot like a home video, with takes included, Angry Kid looking
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      • Cyber SNITCH
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          Lock icon Quills’ dark gems
          127 25 IN ORDER to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice. That’s the tantalising offer that Quills, a movie about freak, fetishist and lover Marquis de Sade, proposes. The site, at http://www.foxsearch light.com/ quills/options, htm, offers options to those 18 and above to enter. Apart from
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          Lock icon Interactive Fantasy
          80 25 FINAL Fantasy IX, the game, has been released, and a sequel has already been planned. But Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (the movie) will only see light of day next year. Eager fans who can’t wait can hook up at the official site at http://www. finalfantasy.com/ for a
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          Lock icon Skin flick
          84 25 TAKE this with a huge bag of salt. Dermatology In The Cinema at http://www. skinema.com is the baby of a dermatologist named Vail Reese, who has made it his mission in life to compile evidence of unnatural skin conditions in the movies. There are interviews with makeup artists
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          Lock icon Quote of the week:
          29 25 June Wan ‘Ed have to say Jesus. Pam's ex-boyfriend played by Owen Wilson, on what got him into carpentry in the movie Meet The Parents.
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    • Clubbing
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        Lock icon Beer necessities
        1045 26 A bottle of lager can give you a lot of street cred if you swig it with the right dose of insouciance in a club. But it also has a lot of other uses, KARL BO (karl@sph.com.sg) discovers. QEER, the key ingredient to every punter’s intoxicated revelry on
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  • Tube Talk
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      506 27 Advertisements and such DOGS Lost: Small apricot poodle. Reward. Neutered, just like one of the family. Dog for sale: Great Dames. Dog for sale: Eats anything; especially fond of children. FROM THE KITCHEN A superb and inexpensive restaurant. Fine food expertly served by waitresses in appetising forms.
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      393 27 r Upfront With Najip 9pm# TCS 5 Spin’s Elaine Cheah, Tube Talk host Jamie Tan (left) and Perfect 10 jockette Jean Danker (right) talk about their days of being wild. Movies When We Were Kings 2 pm TCS 5 A documentary about the 1974 heavyweight championship bout in Zaire between
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