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...growing viewership in the U.S., now up to National Basketball Association (NBA) play-off levels. But if American fans watched only the final, they got just a glimpse of a mesmerizing athlete who has hands for feet, as one scout described him. Like all great athletes, his field vision is uncanny, and he's always a beat ahead of everyone else. More Magic Johnson than Michael Jordan, Zizou controlled games, feeding impossibly angled passes to appreciative teammates and scoring timely, if not spectacular, goals. Just remember that cheeky, chipped penalty kick that put France up 1-0 in Berlin last...
Vick is not, by a long stretch, Night (as everyone calls Shyamalan). The filmmaker not only has a vision, he already knows it sells. His big-break movie, The Sixth Sense, which gave us the phrase "I see dead people" in 1999, took in $672 million at the worldwide box office; Signs in 2002, an additional $408 million. Even his "flops," Unbreakable and The Village, grossed in the $250 million range. Shyamalan (pronounced Shah-ma-lahn) is well aware of the power of those numbers. "Except for Pixar, I have made the four most successful original movies...
...known for creepy and dark box-office hits, but just how mysterious is M. Night Shyamalan? TIME writer-reporter Barbara Kiviat spoke with the filmmaker at his office - make that country estate - in Pennsylvania and asked him about his eerie artistic vision, his new movie Lady in the Water, his break with Disney and what it feels like to get a stinging review...
...What was your vision for the show...
...chairman Ma Ying-jeou is the frontrunner to become Taiwan's President in the next election in 2008. Ma, who turns 56 this week, spoke with Time's Zoher Abdoolcarim and Natalie Tso about the scandals swirling around President Chen Shui-bian, cross-strait relations with China and his vision for Taiwan...