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...While China is the king of flouting copyright protection, Malaysia still consistently features on the U.S. government's piracy watch list. Local officials report that 2,000 raids were carried out last year across Malaysia, netting 5 million counterfeit DVDs. Lucky and Flo's effort will likely boost this year's bootleg count. But walking around Kuala Lumpur during the dogs' visit, I saw little evidence that video pirates were running scared. Vendors openly hawked copies of recent Hollywood hits along with popular films from India's film industry, Bollywood. Many of the covers featured misspellings - Judd Apatow's Knicked...
...schoolteacher Sean Winter-Bottom's earliest memories is of being lifted out of his bed in the dead of night, wrapped lovingly in a blanket, and plonked in front of the television to watch his country's rugby team, the All Blacks, play a test match against Wales. So special was the event, he was even allowed to break his parents' rule against eating cereal on the carpet in front of the TV. Such is the abandon that manifests in the face of New Zealand's national obsession: the brutal, beautiful game of rugby. "Here," says Winterbottom, "rugby crosses...
...pointy end of recent World Cups, the All Blacks have looked clammy - which is how their supporters are feeling now. "My friends and I are rugby tragics, but no one's mentioning the Cup," says Auckland publishing executive Paul Gardiner. "Our mentality is such that when we watch these games we'll be too scared of losing to enjoy them...
...just polished off a group meal of broccoli pasta (regular, as well as wheat-free for the allergic). The 160 members of EVI eat several meals a week together, prepared by rotating teams of volunteer cooks. They share laundry machines, babysitters, organic produce, TVs (for the few who watch), even cars. If all this togetherness doesn't make EVI a commune, that's because it's potentially much more: a clean, green village hoping to show the rest of us how to live a fully modern life while reducing our environmental footprint to little more than a tiptoe...
...looks a mess--funny in the context of the film; not so, given Wilson's hospitalization on Aug. 26 for what was described as a slashed-wrist suicide attempt. Instead of walking the red carpet in Venice, reportedly the actor was in his Santa Monica home under 24-hour watch by friends and family...