We've seen the chink. Jewish groups denounced the comments, and last week a remorseful, sometimes teary Brando spent three hours with officials at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. The actor may owe other slurred groups an apology as well. Before sittings began, Shanks assumed that they would take place in Kensington Palace, where the Princess lives. The Chinese rock band HEI BAO, which means black panthers, has yet to play an official gig in its hometown of Beijing.
Fans meet up with the group in underground spots outside the city.
It's different on the road, where the five are faves in Tokyo, Singapore and Taiwan. Last week Hei Bao filled Hong Kong's Coliseum, but it will be a while before the group plays the Great Hall of the People. The part-time job's salary is not enough, though, to let her jet across the world to visit her incarcerated husband, so she has hired on at Virgin Atlantic Airways as a junior flight attendant. After a year, she'll be eligible for discounts on airlines that go to, well, guess where.