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...victory dance, she may be the last skeptic. The woman whose face is known across Asia yet who still isn't quite a star is making it onto the A list. Millennium Mambo put Shu Qi under the tutelage of director Hou Hsiao-hsien, a serious cine-aficionado who almost single-handedly put Taiwanese art films on the global map. (The two plan to start work on another project later this year.) Mambo didn't unduly impress the critics or crowds at its opening at Cannes?everyone was hoping for a Crouching Tiger repeat?but Shu Qi's performance...
...baseball aficionado - the significance of statistics generally escapes me, and I prefer stories about players' personal tics to even the most thrilling play-by-play commentary. But as someone who grew up in Pittsburgh, I am well aware of the basic facts, which were as indelibly imprinted on my childhood psyche as the indisputable superiority of Heinz ketchup over all other brands...
...election. Bulworth recounts the tale of a disenchanted and suicidal political icon who finds solace when he begins to speak the truth--rather than his usual lip service--regardless of the consequences of his offensive, yet candid, remarks. And Primary Colors tells the story of an idealistic political aficionado seduced into organizing the presidential campaign of a slick southern governor...
...Acts who broke through in the '80s and '90s opened the show. A newly blond Sheryl Crow strutted her stuff in Victorian hippie garb followed by Hendrix aficionado Lenny Kravitz (playing rather louder than the comfort zone for most middle-aged Democrats), a soberly besuited Jon Bon Jovi and a beaming k.d. lang. The performers each contributed one or two of their hits, an astute choice for a benefit crowd that nuzzles more contentedly on familiarity than new terrain. When the artist roster first reached back into the 1970s it yielded the laid-back Buffet, who revealed the "play...
Still, several residents stood in support of hearing out the University's plans for an art museum--a project that has received much support from outgoing University President Neil L. Rudenstine and his wife Angelica, an art aficionado...