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...meant the unexpected. This time Galliano, Dior's designer, travelled to Asia, bringing back giant kimonos, hats that looked like ancient buildings, and two troupes of Chinese acrobats. The effect nearly made up for the show's two-hour delay. The audience gasped and clapped - and ducked when the kung fu troupe began swinging nunchakus. But to really see the clothes, the ladies who shop will also have to travel - to the Dior showroom where the delicate chiffon and silk dresses can be seen unencumbered by layers of brocade or acres of tulle. The clothes at Chanel are never mysterious...
...Kung...
...These tantalizing questions were hard to answer. For decades, Shaw's action classics have been seen, if at all, in muddy bootlegs that often chopped or squeezed the wide-screen panoramas down to TV shape and dubbed the Mandarin dialogue into an Anglicized cacophony of kung fu grunts and maniacal giggles. Most of the company's other films have not been seen at all; they have slept in the Shaw vaults, taken for dead. The studio's reputation decayed too; it was thought to be the stuffy monolith whose primacy was usurped in the '70s by the upstart Golden Harvest...
...DIED. LO LIEH, 59, Chinese action star of Five Fingers of Death, the first Hong Kong martial arts film to make an impact beyond Chinese-language theaters; of a heart attack; in Shenzhen. Lieh later played reliably fierce villains in kung fu bone crackers such as Dirty Ho and Ninja Massacre, and co-starred with Jackie Chan and Chow...
Ford's passion, however, was not Central Asia but China. His interest was sparked by an uncle, Leonard Trigg, a kung fu expert who often traveled to Asia. Ford learned martial arts from Trigg and chose his high school--Lincoln--because it taught Chinese. Ford continued to study the language at Portland State University, where teachers regarded him as an ideal student. "We expected him to have a career in international relations," says Linda Walton, a professor of Chinese...