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...look for anything morose here, however. Gweilo is sometimes a bit novelistic for a memoir, but it is alive with delight in the new. The boy's golden hair is considered lucky by the Chinese, who cannot resist touching it. "I was a walking talking talisman," he writes. This, plus his status as a gweilo ("ghostly man," or Caucasian), allows him to walk undeterred into Hong Kong's brothels and opium dens to befriend coolies, Triad gangsters and the real-life model for Hiroshima Joe. Perhaps Booth's biggest coup is talking his way into Kowloon Walled City, a notorious...
...Urdu. The crowd loves it. Rehman, one of Norway's best-known comedians, has made a career out of poking fun and provoking outrage at the predicament of conservative Muslim immigrants in socially and sexually permissive Scandinavia. She makes jokes about everything from the facial hair of fundamentalists to the operations some engaged Muslim women in Norway undergo to make it appear they're still virgins. She also satirizes the Norwegians themselves, with their "booze-and-pork" culture and "progressive" family structures in which a single child can have multiple sets of parents. "I talk about sexuality and pornography, about...
...over 4,000,000 ... They have their own magazine, a quarterly in which fans can revel in a whole issue devoted entirely to the Jackson Five and read things like 'Michael's Love Letter to You.' STORES NOW BULGE WITH JACKSON FIVE DECALS, STICKERS AND SWEATERS. A JACKSON FIVE HAIR SPRAY AND A JACKSON FIVE WATCH ARE PLANNED ... Despite this commercial hoopla, the group manages to be one of the best soul bands in the country. It is also part of the most likable and natural family ever to survive the pressures of teenage stardom...
...this summer's The Bourne Supremacy, ex--CIA agent MATT DAMON steals a Volga taxi and is pursued through the streets of Moscow. It's almost as hair raising as a rush-hour trip to the airport...
...RACED WITH A FULL MUSTACHE, NO CAP AND NO GOGGLES. TODAY'S SWIMMERS WON'T GET ANYWHERE NEAR A COMPETITION WITHOUT SHAVING FIRST. DIDN'T ALL THE HAIR SLOW YOU DOWN? Goggles were not allowed. A cap was allowed, but I chose not to wear one. I grew the mustache because a coach in college said I couldn't grow...