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...Schupp is looking on the bright side. With gas at the pump now topping $2 a gal. in his neighborhood and seemingly headed higher, he figures it's payback for all those insufferable, phony-rich, new-economy yuppies in their view-blocking, death-dealing, friend-of-OPEC SUVs. "Gas will probably go to $3, and I applaud it," says the retired computer-company executive as he fills the tank of his light pickup truck at a station in Los Angeles. "I'd like to see all gas guzzlers off the road...
...would later earn international acclaim in Chen Kaige's Concubine?still his fullest, grandest performance. But it was Wong Kar-wai who illuminated the inner Leslie on the big screen. Days of Being Wild made him a '60s Ah Fei (shiftless youth) whose mistreating of women is his payback to the mother who deserted him; it won Cheung a Hong Kong Film Award for best actor. In Ashes of Time, cast as a martial-arts scoundrel, he ably anchored a film of top Chinese stars and rapturous visual splendor. In the not-so-gay drama Happy Together he taught Tony...
...first page of the latest issue, a story called "Payback," drawn by Dean Haspiel, sets the usual Pekar tone when he writes: "I think if you feel rotten most of the time by a certain age, you're always gonna feel lousy . . ." The rest of the piece boils down to a long explanation for why Haspiel was asked to draw the strip. Yes, it's completely self-reflexive and self-involved, another Pekar trait. Basically you like it if you like Pekar...
...initiative, and Washington looks uncomfortable. There is President Bush on TV addressing the Chinese to no visible effect. There are the Western TV cameras greedily gobbling up every bit of finger-wagging offered up by mid-level foreign ministry clerks in Beijing. For Jiang, it may have looked like payback time. An opportunity to back the U.S. away from some positions that are causing great discomfort for Jiang and his allies. An opportunity to ritually humiliate the Belgrade bombers, force them to lose face to China's leaders and demonstrate Beijing's power to its own people and the region...
...left the building?but not the bank. The King tops Forbes' list of the richest dead celebrities OLIVER STONE U.S. judge rejects suit blaming director's film for killings. Now sue him for Any Given Sunday BOB THE BUILDER Animated British construction worker takes U.S. TV by storm. Payback...