"There were no dragon dances or public celebrations, " says Suherman, a caretaker at Jakarta's Vihara Dharma Bhakti temple.

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But 10 years after the fall of Suharto, dragon dances are no longer forbidden and the Chinese New Year is an official holiday.

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Stewart also wrote the movie and is producing it with Scott Rudin, best known for films like The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and No Country for Old Men.

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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon actress Zhang Ziyi ranked No. 2 in the overall list, and international film star Gong Li was No. 5.

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He had no idea that The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and its two sequels (known as The Millennium Trilogy) would become some of the best-selling books ever.

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Eight feet tall and twenty-four feet long, the specimen had been mounted in a predatory running position, with its arms out and its jaws open, as if determined to eat Lot No. 49220 a cast Komodo dragon, crouching ten yards away, on blue velvet.

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