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Web-only Exclusives
November 30, 2000

From Our Correspondent: Hirohito and the War
A conversation with biographer Herbert Bix

From Our Correspondent: A Rough Road Ahead
Bad news for the Philippines - and some others

From Our Correspondent: Making Enemies
Indonesia needs friends. So why is it picking fights?

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PEOPLE

By Alexandra A. Seno


Togetherness

Ultimate nightmare or something everybody should try at least once? For 24 hours, Hong Kong writer Nury Vittachi and aspiring jazz singer Susie Wilkins were voluntarily handcuffed together -- meaning that whatever one did, the other was right there. Before you ask, bathroom breaks were negotiated by putting a paper bag over the head of the "non-active partner" and running taps at full blast. Sri Lankan-born Vittachi, 37, says that wasn't too bad. "For me," he says, "the worst part was trying to butter toast with one hand. The bread kept whizzing off the table." Briton Wilkins, 18, reports: "It was more fun than I expected." The handcuff caper was designed to provide Vittachi with some authentic research for a book he is writing for charity on a similar theme. Asian Values is to be published on the Internet this month and then in hardback.

Bonjour Paris!

It's easy to beat the French and Italians at the fashion game. All you have to do is rip off their ideas and produce them more cheaply. But 43-year-old South Korean designer Lee Kwang Hee has chosen to do it the expensive way. For 18 years, she has been producing one-off designs for her glitterati customers -- at thousands of dollars a go. "My clients prefer me to Western boutiques," she says. And now for the big challenge: Paris. Lee is planning to set up shop in the French capital in two years. "If you can sell there and make money, you are successful," she says.

ONCE MORE-
THIS TIME WITH FEELING

When it came to flattening a dozen baddies in as many seconds, few could match kung fu master Bruce Lee. But the Hong Kong star had a major handicap: as an actor, he made Lassie look good. Now, nearly a quarter of a century after his death, there's talk of bringing him back to the screen -- this time with a full set of acting skills. Two Hollywood special-effects wizards think there's a market out there for a computer-animated Bruce Lee movie. But we're not talking cartoons here; this would be more real than the real thing. Leigh Muhl believes he can do it well enough for the "new" martial arts legend to be indistinguishable from the original -- except perhaps for the fact that, when the kicking stops, he won't look as if his battery has died.


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