Word: angelis
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Though it doesn't quite match Ang Lee's wonderful gift for rendering social conventions hilarious, "Shall We Dance?" is bound to tickle the most staid viewer. It makes abundant, admittedly effective use of stock comic devices and characters. Eriko Watanabe cuts a droll figure as the experienced but caustic and somewhat unattractive dancer whom Sugiyama agrees to partner in an amateur competition; Naoto Takenaka hams it up as a painfully self-conscious colleague who dons a wig and hurls himself with fiendish gusto into the rhumba; Sugiyama's two fellow dance-pupils--one short and hyper...
Nominee number five is "Sense and Sensibility"--like "Apollo 13," its director (Ang Lee) did not receive a nomination. But "Sense" won the Golden Globe award for best dramatic picture, and in the past 16 years, the Globes have accurately predicted 12 best picture winners, 12 best actors, and 14 best female actors. But the Golden Globes also splits its awards into two categories, Drama and Comedy/Musical--this year, the latter award went to "Babe." Still, the odds are good for "Sense and Sensibility." It's not the clear favorite, but it probably has the edge...
...Chan and the flock of successful Chinese actors and directors now making deals in Los Angeles may find that the hurdles of race and culture are hard to clear. For example, the seven Oscar nominations Sense and Sensibility received last week did not include one for its Taiwanese director, Ang...
...record, Ang Lee is the Taiwan-born director of "Eat Drink Man Woman," "Sense and Sensibility...
...obvious on the faces of the demonstrators, and the situation is aggravated when Party officials refuse to have serious, face-to-face discussions with student leaders. It was this critical look at the Communist bureaucracy which led Chinese officials to withdraw their entry to the New York Film Festival--Ang Lee's Shanghai Triad--because Gate was being premeried there...