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...winningly modest Fraser, 31, helped usher it in. Born in England, where his father was employed as a broadcaster for the BBC, Fraser migrated to Auckland when he was 14 and spent much time with his Fijian grandmother, who lived in the same Mount Roskill house until her death in 1990. While working as a cinema supervisor through the '90s, the aspiring playwright penned his aptly titled second play-and the one-woman show, with nine characters spanning three generations, proved to be the little one that roared. First performed in 1999, Fraser's love letter to his grandmother toured...
...places What Is the What is surprisingly funny. Eggers explains that he didn't want the book to read like "a human-rights report." "We were trying to reflect the whole life, the complete life," he says, "not just disaster after disaster." After all, Deng spent 13 years in refugee camps. He grew up in them. He joked around with friends. He flirted with girls. "The horror was so overwhelming that for many years I never thought that I had this fun," he says. "But there are moments when I no longer recall missing my family. That was the time...
When designer Elie Tahari landed in New York City at age 19 in 1971, he had $300 in his pocket and couldn't read English. After a "miserable" childhood spent in an Israeli orphanage, Tahari had only one dream, and that was the Big Apple--as he had seen it in the movies. With a plane ticket provided free by one of his brothers, then an airline employee, Tahari landed determined to make money...
...Naomi Campbell spent 12 hours in a police cell in London after allegedly: A) Scratching her drug counselor's face B) Encouraging other models to eat carbohydrates C) Recommending her 1996 novel, Swan, to her book group D) Threatening Underground riders at stiletto point, shouting "Now who's the Top Model...
That's why Telekom's CEO Kai-Uwe Ricke just opened his wallet again and spent $4.2 billion to span a high-speed 3G wireless network across the U.S. "We want to maximize our sales in the U.S. and expand T-Mobile USA into the largest single unit in the group," Ricke told reporters in New York City...