Word: angelis
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...Heroes?). And Hsu Chi, the Taiwanese lovely who had posed pink for photo books - and who made her Hong Kong movie debut snogging in the buff with Lee in ?Sex and Zen II? - won two Hong Kong Film Awards the following year, and the year after that turned down Ang Lee?s offer to star in ?Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.? By now she?s surely been forgiven for her Cat III antics; last month she starred in the Sino-Franco-American action film ?The Transporter...
...Touch aspires to action, adventure, romance, slapstick, plus a little Buddhist spiritual gloss on the side. Maybe it combines too much. Crouching Tiger, conceived like a dream by director Ang Lee, managed to incarnate a China straight out of a storybook?a very Chinese storybook. The Touch has China everywhere in the background?golden deserts, Tibetan mountains, endless blue skies?but Hollywood action in the forefront. The cinematic mating of East and West is far advanced?but some of the offspring look a little strange...
DIED. SIHUNG LUNG, 72, Taiwanese actor who played key roles in director Ang Lee's best-known films, including last year's Oscar-winning Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (he was Sir Te, the sage court official who receives the 400-year-old sword); of liver failure; in Taipei...
...video-game characters are, literally, dumb: they have no animating intelligence except what the player provides, and so--as in last year's Tomb Raider--their superpowers don't help in lifting heavy movie narratives. Instead, our decades-old comic heroes continue to move through the pop-culture cosmos--Ang Lee's The Hulk comes out next year--like the constellations, the movie shows of old in which people once inscribed the stories of their own superheroes. Then, as now, the lights would go dark, and people would gather round for stories they never got tired...
...PUMPED-UP LOU FERRIGNO SPLITS HIS PANTS ON TV IN 1978. ANG LEE WILL DIRECT THE 2003 MOVIE VERSION...