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Yuen Wo-ping is known to international audiences as the man behind The Matrix, for which he devised the vertiginous virtual hand combat and flying feats that made the movie a gut as well as a head experience. He has won further acclaim for Crouching Tiger, and he was the one person who could say no to the world-class director making his first action film, which happened on more than one occasion. No wonder: the script would read, "They fight," leaving the overall conception to Lee and the hard work of realizing it to Yuen. "When I'm working...
...DIED. RODOLFO MORALES, 75, mild-mannered Mexican painter whose colorful, surreal renderings of everyday rural Mexico won international acclaim; in Oaxaca, Mexico. Wary of fame, Morales returned to the dusty Indian village where he grew up and spent the last 16 years of his life using money earned from his works to restore the crumbling monuments of his homeland and promote Mexican art and culture...
...Johnny Walker. He played the villain in last year's ultra-violent hit Battle Royale, and Brother, his most recent movie, opened in Japan in January and will debut soon in Asia and the U.S. Internationally better known as Takeshi Kitano (his real name), he has garnered critical acclaim as an inventive filmmaker (his 1997 movie Hana-Bi won the grand prize at Venice in 1997) and a striking minimalist actor...
...front of a packed room, Burns, who has won acclaim for his previous documentaries on the Civil War and baseball, fended off attacks from other panelists that the film had left out important aspects of jazz history...
Barrymore also earned critical acclaim for her roles in Gun Crazy and Irreconcilable Differences. She founded her own production company--Flower Films--which has produced many notable films including the box office smash Never Been Kissed. Most recently, she tried her hand as a producer in the box-office hit Charlie's Angels...