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Coppola's new movie, Lost in Translation, was the most buzzed-about entry at the Venice Film Festival, where it snagged two prizes last week. Granted, it's easy to generate buzz when you've got family connections like hers. But waiflike Sofia, 32, with her soft, spacey California surfer-chick talk (expressions like "Yeah, right?" and "Oh, cool" punctuate every sentence), hardly plays the part of the Hollywood brat...
...Singapore, where the U2 Can gym - a converted chicken shed - recently bought a boxing ring and has begun to offer serious training. Among the instructors: an ex-head boxing coach for the Singapore Army. The Real Fight Club in London is beginning to attract women. "I get a real buzz out of making my films, but that's a slow burn," says Ann Parisio, a documentary filmmaker who boxed in the first women's fight in London in June. "Boxing is so physical; so immediate. It's such a rush." It's also slightly watered down: the three rounds...
...requirements. Theoretically, this could enable some banks to lower mortgage rates, but might also raise the cost of loans to small companies. The plans are coming under fierce criticism. Most seriously, the U.S. says it will only require its 10 biggest banks to follow the new rules. Last week buzz spread that the end-2006 deadline for implementing the rules may be pushed back. That prospect worries European banks already changing over, which could cost up to $200 million per bank. Expect a showdown at next month's Basel reunion of central bank heads. - By Peter Gumbel One Down...
Nonetheless, it is Spirit and Opportunity that are generating the most buzz, at least partly because the 6.3 billion of us left behind on Earth will be able to share the trip. As with the Pathfinder mission, NASA will fling open a trio of websites that will track the surface explorations as they unfold. Whatever the spacecraft learn, we'll learn along with them--and it could turn out to be plenty. "We have on these rovers so many capabilities that have never been present on another planet," says Steve Squyres, the missions' principal investigator. "I guarantee...
...people are so guarded emotionally, savaged by what they experienced through TV," he says. When fiction can't possibly trump the headlines, taking viewers out of a contemporary setting can help them check their disbelief at the door. Don't expect chaste, old-fashioned behavior, though; there's already buzz about the skin, violence and language. "I'm just trying to get that world right," says Milch, who helped bring nudity to prime time in NYPD Blue. "When a man was killed in Deadwood, he was fed to the pigs." Even the Sopranos haven't tried that. --By Lisa Takeuchi...