Project Eyeball, 22 May 2001

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  • 11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball,asial,com,sg Mita (p) 105/03/2001 Tuesday, May 22, 2001 80 CENTS
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 406 1 DISAPPOINTING COFFEE Michael Dwyer can’t stomach the brown stuff that big chains pass off as coffee (and they cost too much, too). See Page 13 DAVE BARRY VENUS AND MARS SUMMED-DOWN NEWS “It's the bottom-line, stupid” seems to be the mantra of newsp; these days. Wha} to the Pdg >
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
    • Article, Illustration
      103 2 TO PREVENT mobile phone theft, London police are pestering thieves with text messages. They bombard stolen phones every hour with the message: “You are in possession of a stolen mobile phone. Please hand it in at the nearest police station, or you will be arrested. Regards, the Police.” Superintendent
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    • 441 2  -  No sign of nerves on TV Works’ maiden news broadcast BY WONG SHER MAINE sher@sph.com.sg MICHELLE QUAH delicately ate her chicken rice, trying not to stain her lipstick even as her eyes were scanning the crop of stories on the computer screen for TV Work’s first
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    • Eyeball NEWS
      • 88 2 THE economic downturn has seen a sharp fall in the number of employees sponsored by their companies for the Skills Redevelopment Programme (SRP), from 2,200 in January to just 630 in April this year. In response, National Trades Union Congress deputy secretary-general Matthias Yao suggested
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      • 45 2 THE United States and Singapore started a new round of negotiations on Monday to establish a free-trade agreement between the two countries. This third round of talks, expected to end on Friday, will be the first under the Bush administration.
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      • 127 2 ELECTRONIC Road Pricing rates will be revised, with effect from Monday. Rates for the following gantries have been decreased by 50 cents: the three Central Expressway gantries south of Braddell Road (9 to 9.30 am); the Pan-Island Expressway gantries at Adam Road (7.30 to
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      • 75 2 IN 10 years, the number of people who have aired their grouses to the Feedback Unit has jumped by nearly seven times from 880 in 1990 to 6,000 last year. Still, the Feedback Unit, which was formed in 1985 to channel feedback from the people to
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    • 311 2 50 CENTS MORE BARELY seven months since the last increase, movie ticket prices have been raised once again. This means that watching a movie can now cost as much as 30 per cent more than it did 12 months ago. A dozen moviegoers contacted
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    • Article, Illustration
      308 3 Former US Attorney General Democrat Janet Reno confirmed jj she was considering a run for the Florida governor’s office, now occupied by Jeb Bush, brother of US President George W Bush. GAZA CITY Israeli helicopter gunships and ground forces attacked civilian industrial targets in the Gaza Strip early
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    • 466 3 Body parts adjust at different rates to jet lag, says study WASHINGTON If you board a jet in Washington and land in London the next morning, your brain is pretty much there, but your liver is probably still chilling out over Iceland. From the viewpoint
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    • 52 3 In a community effort, residents of Launceston in Tasmania knitted about 800 sweaters like the one above for fairy penguins in case they are stricken by oil spills. The woollen sweaters will keep them warm and prevent them from eating the oil when they clean their
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
      • 1013 4  -  Campaign to stub out smoking is working but recommended remedies differ BY Denyse Yeo and Toh Bee Ping denyse@sph.com.sg beeping@sph.com.sg PUFF away if you must, but Singapore has one of the lowest number of smokers in the world. The latest statistics released by the Health Promotion
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    • Health
      • Stork OPTIONS
        • 313 5 Those with hypertension more likely to suffer, says study EVERY puff you take could kill some mojo. Men with high blood pressure and who smoke are 26 times more likely to be impotent than nonsmokers, says new research by United States scientists. Even former smokers
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        • 461 5 UNPLANNED BABY DEAR Dr Chen: I have been married for five years and went off the pill two years ago. I believed I was barren (which suits me fine) until I recently discovered that I was four weeks pregnant. I was initially shocked and
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    • Singapore
      • 473 6 FIREMAN FOUND AFTER 24 HOURS AT SEA Eugene Wee THE high seas may have claimed the life of a Singaporean early Sunday morning. A lawyer out fishing with friends went missing somewhere off the east coast of Singapore. In a separate incident, an airport
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      • 566 6  -  It says Case can be the enforcer but consumer body is not keen BY EUGENE WEE eugenew@sph.com.sg THE Fair Trading Act (FTA) proposed by the Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) has received a warm reception from the Government. But the Government has cautioned against
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      • 105 6 THE proposed duties of the Fair Trading Office: Provide dispute resolution and prosecution services. Examine and approve codes of practice for industry groups. Monitor and review codes of practice for effectiveness. Investigate effective self-regulation guidelines and opportunities for industry codes of practice. Enforce standards and undertake
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    • The World
      • 193 7  -  BHAGYASHREE GAREKAR Three to one that Indonesian President „Abdurrahman Wahid will try to dissolve Parliament to stave off his impending impeachment. Here’s why: L His political ambitions run strong. Less than a week ago, he declared himself game to run for the
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      • 292 7 Warns of Indonesia becoming ‘sickest man of Asia’ if woes not solved Wires JAKARTA In as direct a manner as her Javanese bearing would permit, Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri yesterday attacked President Abdurrahman Wahid’s leadership. Without naming Abdurrahman, Megawati increasingly viewed as Indonesia’s President-in-waiting outlined her vision of
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      • 217 7 AFP JAKARTA Disgraced former Indonesian President Suharto is a better leader than the incumbent, Abdurrahman Wahid, according to an online readers’ poll conducted by the Media Indonesia daily. Suharto outshone his successors, BJ Habibie and Abdurrahman, in six categories in the survey, where 950 people
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      • 208 8 AFP BEIJING Chinese police charged four intellectuals with subversion in a clampdown on dissent that may be linked to the recent detention and arrests of US-based academics, a rights group said yesterday. The Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, based in Hong Kong,
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      • Article, Illustration
        754 8 Holland we call it liberal, they call it practical Reuters AP AMSTERDAM Some call the Dutch pioneers of legal progressiveness, but others wonder if they’re not degenerates. In the past year, the Dutch have legalised brothels and regulated the sex trade; sanctioned gay marriages and given those unions
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      • 173 8 STRESS CLINIC SETS UP LONDON A London clinic favoured by stressed-out celebrities said yesterday it has opened a new branch for financiers pressured by the threat of global recession. The Priory Group, famed for treating stars such as supermodel Kate Moss and Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood,
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    • Technology
      • 443 9 IBM to make PCs with 400 GB memory AP SAN JOSE (California) The days of 400-gigabyte hard drives in desktop PCs may be closer than most computer users realise. Computer giant IBM said it has cracked a barrier in disk drive design -a breakthrough that would eventually
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      • 457 11  -  More funding threw portal a lifeline BY ANDREW CHIN andre-wc@sph.com.sg BARELY a year ago, Catcha.com was said to be in its death throes as one of the first local dotcom casualties. But while many others have gone under and wreckage from the Web carnage piles up, the
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      • 578 11 NINTENDO,SONY AND MICROSOFT BATTLE FOR DOMINANCE Salon LOS ANGELES Three men have come here to peddle the future of fun. They appeared, at first, to be amiable fellows, dressed casually, seated side by side in front of hundreds of game fanatics at the world’s largest
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    • Business
      • 432 12  -  Share prices of nine prospective entrants end higher BY Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg THE Singapore market yesterday gave the thumbs-up to nine of the 11 local stocks that are to be added to the revamped Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI). Among the inclusions, personal
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      • Stock TALKING
        • 397 12 PETER LYNCH has made a name for himself as one of the world’s top fund managers. During his 13 years as manager, the Fidelity Magellan Fund was top-ranked in its category in the US. An investment of $l,OOO in his fund in 1977 would have grown
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      • Business BUZZ
        • 141 12 SINGTEL will not pursue the takeover of Mobile One Asia (Ml), Singapore’s No 2 mobile phone operator, Sing Tel Mobile chief Lucas Chow said yesterday. “We have decided not to pursue Ml,” Chow said in an interview with Reuters. Participating at the formal launch of an Asl7
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        • 45 12 THE Disclosure and Accounting Standards Committee (DASC) has recommended that the Minister for Finance establish a panel on corporate governance with representation from organisations such as the Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Singapore Exchange and the Securities Investor Association of Singapore.
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        • 79 12 DBS GROUP’S managing director for corporate affairs Chuck Newton said yesterday that he had resigned for “personal reasons”. Newton had worked with the group for more than two years. He was part of a pool of Americans hired by former chief executive John Olds in 1998 in
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    • Mailbox
      • Expat EYE
        • 999 13  -  BY Michael Dwyer mdwyer@sph.com.sg WHY is coffee in Singapore so ordinary? Cue collective disbelief: How can he say such a thing? Hasn’t he seen all the Starbucks and Spinellis and Coffee Bean and Tea Leafs and Coffee Clubs? Yes I have, and it’s
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      • 54 13 WITH all this talk of retrenchment, how secure do you feel in your job? 22% Generally secure, but a tad concerned. 21% Fatalistic. 20% Completely confident. 20% -1 prefer to be prepared. 11% Completely worried, I expect the worst. 6% I’ve already been retrenched. Based on 92 responses
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      • 739 14  -  BY DAVE BARRY Miami Herald ON BEHALF of the newspaper industry (new, cost-cutting motto: All The News That), I wish to announce some changes we’re making to serve you better. When I say “serve you better”, I mean “increase our profits”. We newspapers are
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    • 51 2 Departments: Enquiries 730-5800 ey enews@sph.com.sg Local News 730-5461 local@eyeball.com.sg Foreign News 730-5807 world@eyeball.com.sg Business News 730-5864 biz@eyeball.com.sg Eye Sport 730-5832 sports@eyeball.com.sg Unwind 730-5844 leisure@eyeball.com.sg Tech 730-5815 tech@eyebal l.com.sg Online Edition 730-5811 Archives 730-5726 stlib@cyberway.com.sg Subscription fax line 746-1925 Snail Mail Project Eyeball News Centre, Level 6 82, Genting Lane Singapore
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    • 16 2 What do you think of this latest movie ticket price hike? Tell us at httpV/eyebalLasiaL com.sg
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 28 2 Qood morning! M Showers with thunder in the late morning and early afternoon over many areas. High: 32C 1 Low: 25C Tides: 10.58AM/2.5M 10.35PM/2.8M Met Service: http:// www.gov.sg/metsin
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    • 60 4 Looking for help? Quit Net http:// www.quitnet.org/ Lots of information on smoking and quitting. Tobacco Free Initiative http://tobacco.who.int/ Put up by the Tobacco Free Initiative, a project of the World Health Organisation. Health Answers http://www.healthanswers.com.sg/ Select “Quitting Smoking” under Health Centres and you’ll find news articles and feature pieces on
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 31 14 ANOTHER PACKAGE FROM THE CHINESE' WHAT IS IT THIS TIME? f THATS THE COCKPIT FEEKBLUD CODE CIRCUIT FIBULATORf SEE? 1 TOLD YOU THEY’D SEND OUR SPY PLANE BACK EVENTUALLY.' k'. -V"
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  • EyeSport
    • Now, for the finals
      • 499 15 Wires PHILADELPHIA Vince Carter may have received his degree, but it was Allen Iverson who passed his biggest test in Game 7 of the NBA’s Eastern Conference semifinals on Sunday. Iverson didn’t do it by putting up 50 points again, but by passing
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      • 356 15 Reuters MILWAUKEE The Milwaukee Bucks reached the NBA conference finals for the first time in 15 years after defeating the Charlotte Hornets 104-95 in a climactic Game 7 yesterday. Milwaukee, led by the Bucks’ “Big Three” of Glenn Robinson, Ray Allen and
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    • 111 15 SOCCER: Bayern Munich and Valencia will be in for the fight of their lives as they battle it out in the European Cup final on Thursday morning. If you’re looking for news on both teams, try out http://itv-football.co.uk, or http://planetfootball.com. NBA: If you’re a video freak, don’t miss
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    • Sport IN SHORT
      • 123 16 CELTIC manager Martin O’Neil! refused to comment on reports linking him with the hotseat at Manchester United, according to ITV’s football website, http://itv-football.co.uk. There was fresh speculation yesterday which suggested he had met representatives from the Old Trafford board, who see him as the man to replace
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      • 157 16 CHELSEA has agreed to allow Gustavo Poyet to leave the club after the midfielder handed in a written transfer request. Poyet, 33, has been unhappy with his failure to secure a regular starting place over the past couple of months and has decided to seek a
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    • 547 16 And not Hakkinen, if it wants to win title Wires NOW that McLaren’s David Coulthard is the driver most capable of challenging Michael Schumacher for the Formula One championship, will the Woking outfit impose team orders at the expense of Mika Hakkinen? The team doesn’t
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    • 126 16 AT FERRARI, Michael Schumacher has offered an olive branch to his teammate by stressing that he does not want to lose Rubens Barrichello as a partner. “If I had the choice I would want to have Rubens as teammate next year. He is a very good teammate,
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  • Unwind
    • 1073 17 T THE RECENT Melbourne Fashion Week, two words volleyed back and forth between lips and perfectly drawn mouths: consumer celebrity. Textile View publisher and renowned trend guru David Shah (whose very word could sound the yj death knell for patterns) had declared this to be fashion’s
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    • Fashion
      • 610 19 Traditional Eastern treatments are finding their way into modern spas, with entire new sections dedicated to them. JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg) gets a rubdown to find out why these therapies are becoming more popular. 0AY “spa” and images of soft lighting, massages and aromatherapy come to mind.
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      • 349 19 SOME of the therapies available: AROMA STONE THERAPY $l5O for 75 mins Taking a hint from ancient cultures, which used stone energy for medicinal and spiritual purposes, this treatment harnesses properties from stones gathered in a sacred spring in Bali, which are said to have inborn
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      • Personal STYLE
        • 616 20 The tomboy of yesterday wears mini skirts today. UMHUILING (pedas@sph.com.sg) talks to Media Works star Lina Ng about how marriage agrees with her so well that she practically glows. Twenty-seven-year-old MediaWorks artiste Lina Ng rediscovered beauty five months ago when she got hitched. Married bliss has
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      • Fashion LOG
        • 69 20 CAN’T go to Japan for holiday? It’ll come to you at the Heeren this weekend. Spend $5O or more in a single receipt to win a trip for two to Japan; catch lookalikes of J-Pop stars from 4 pm every Sunday; check out the Final Fantasy
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        • 87 20 LOEWE’S new Napa Vivo collection is the added cocktail for this summer. Created from the emblematic Napa 7000 leather, the range carries a unique trim (the “vivo”) that contrasts colours like coral with pistachio, sand with banana. Feast upon the Daiquiri, a long-handled clasp bag, the Maxi
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        • 123 20 TOMMY HILFIGER, not content with being the biggest American apparel export to the hip-hop world, is now appealing to the female beauty market as well. In stores from the end of this month is Tommy Shop, a full range of body and cosmetic goodies. Tommy Hilfiger
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        • Article, Illustration
          51 20 IS THE sun giving your eyes grief? Try optical elegance from Vuarnet, a French brand which has set the standard in sunglass excellence. Vuarnet lenses are multilayered and anti-reflective, filtering out harmful UV rays. From $l7B to $276, at selected optical boutiques. (right). Cool chic from Vuarnet (far
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    • Music
      • 1273 21  -  RONALD RAJAN The first Smgapore International Jazz Festival left audiences spellbound, as world-class musicians, some legends in their own right, set the nights to music. Eyeball takes you through the shows and their star-studded cast. T was Swing Singapore, this time without the pop and rock.
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      • 210 21 THE Singapore Jazz Festival has ended on a high note. And you can expect a bigger follow-up next year, promises sponsor Singapore Airlines. “We want the Jazz Festival to be a prominent fixture,” said Clarence Pong, festival chairman and advertising and promotions manager (worldwide). “We are greatly
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      • 367 22 Singer Eason Chan has been making waves in romantic movies. Now, he gets lucky in a horror flick. UMHUILING (fun@eyeball.com.sg) talks to the man with all the breaks. ASON CHAN is in an enviable position. Though the popular crooner doesn’t expect to star opposite Hong Kong
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    • Gender
      • Gender BENDERS
        • 88 23 WHEN you get hiccups, don’t hold your breath. Have sex instead. According to Men's Health magazine, a 40-year-old Israeli man tried everything to cure his chronic hiccups, including massaging his palate with cotton. Upon his doctor’s suggestion, he tried intercourse. And the hiccups suddenly stopped right after ejaculation.
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        • 116 23 IF YOU’RE waking up in the middle of the night to pee, don’t switch on the lights, according to Men’s Health magazine, because it makes it harder to go back to sleep. Instead, take a leak in the dark. While staring in the general direction of
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        • 123 23 Karl Ho FHM, the men’s magazine with saucy covers of women showing lots of skin, is throwing a party in Centro this Friday. Paying tribute to FHM’s 100 sexiest women in the world for 2001, the party will kick off at 8 pm. It’s open only to those
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      • Venus & MARS
        • 673 23 With lofty ambitions of becoming house-husbands, men like David Beckham insist that doing the dishes, laundry and cooking are all as easy as pie. But, as ADEIJNE GOH (adel@sph.com.sg) discovers, they get daunted when it comes to doing actual work. 0 TAR WORLD is screening a behind-the-scenes
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  • The Back Page
    • Chat & Mouse
      • 121 24 TONY and Harold, two avid fisherman and well-known drunks, were out in a boat on their favourite lake one day, drowning some worms and polishing off some brews. Suddenly, Tony got what he thought was a nibble. Reeling it in, he found a bottle
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      • 59 24 AN OLD man asks a Wizard if he can remove a curse he has been living with for the last 40 years. The Wizard replies: “Maybe, but you’ll have to tell me the exact words that were used to put the curse on you.” The old man answers
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    • 134 24 Woody thinks I’m an idiot Keaton AP WOODY ALLEN (left) and Diane Keaton (right) may have worked together on eight movies, but don’t expect the Academy Award-winning actress to start collaborating on a script with Allen. “He thinks I’m an idiot,” Keaton tells TV Guide in its May 26 issue.
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    • 160 24 Reuters FRENCH supermodel-turned-actress Laetitia Casta (right, with director Raonl Ruiz) bemoaned the lot of women on Sunday, saying they were too often cast in movies as just another pretty face. Casta was in Cannes to promote Chilean director Raoul Ruiz’s festival closer, Savage Souls, where she
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    • 118 24 SAUCY Moulin Rouge star Nicole Kidman (right) has been distracted from worries about her busted-up marriage to Tom Cruise by dates with an Italian film producer. Kidman was secretly squired by the stunning and suave Fabrizio Mosca during her four-day trip to the Cannes
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    • Making HEADLINES
      • 63 24 ACCORDING to eonline.com, Courtney Love (below) suffered a miscarriage last week while shooting 24 Hours in Vancouver. The father of the baby is unknown. “It was very early in the pregnancy,” her spokesman said. “She had been bleeding for several days. She’d been working very hard. Her director,
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      • Article, Illustration
        93 24 Reuters NOW that Charmed enchantress Shannon Doherty has hung up her pointy black hat, Survivor: The Australian Outback antagonist Jerri Manthey (below) has, figuratively speaking, parked her broomstick outside producer Aaron Spelling’s office. “Oh absolutely!” the wicked witch of Oz told TV Guide Online. mfe. “Fm all over
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