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The film is finally opening now and while it is not Wong's best work, it still delivers moments of rapturous romance.

English speakers might be justified for their confusion over the wording of North Korean reports of its alleged underground test of a nuclear device. Slate senior editor Andy Bowers explains the roots of the fractured English spoken in North Korea.

California has long been a center of the entertainment world. But state lawmakers say that's not something they can take for granted anymore. They've formed a committee to make sure the industry kee

Pressure is mounting for a U.N.-backed resolution to halt the fighting that's raged along the Israel-Lebanon border for nearly three weeks. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice returns to the region on Saturday.

Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-PA), the only Iraq war veteran in Congress, talks about his first trip back to Baghdad since his tour of duty there.

Yeagley's intimate outdoor cinema is nestled in Mission Hills and boasts top of the line digital technology. As you enter the garden-like theater space, gracefully curving twinkle lights catch your eye, and life-size cutouts of Alfred Hitchcock and Audrey Hepburn soon greet you. Flickering flames inside urns sit on either side of the twenty-foot screen and remind you of old picture palaces that showed Cecil B. DeMille biblical epics. There's also a pair of fish sculptures illuminated by rippling lights, and on some nights tiny bubbles float through the air.

First off, let's start in my booth for Film School Confidential (4017), over in Exhibit Hall E by G4. Gee, I'm already looking a little bug-eyed.

Before there was Bernie Madoff, there was Ivar Kreuger, the man John Kenneth Galbraith called the Leonardo of scammers. When Kreuger, an extremely successful and much-admired businessman during the 1920s, killed himself in 1932, investors discovered that his financial empire, based in the manufacture of matches, was made of sand, built out of complex financial instruments that are the forerunners of today's derivatives.

The Mexican government has hired a U.S. public relations agency to help improve the country's image and stem the immigration backlash. The Mexican government is angry and frustrated by the immigration

In India, all eyes were on Sunday's final of the new Indian Premier Cricket League. The league plays a modified form of cricket, full of Western sports influences, but it has been a commercial success.