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...pineapple bun. Her first single, Future Tense, was released to local radio stations last month, and her debut album, a self-titled Canto-pop affair overlaid with R. and B. beats, will come out in early November. She has signed a deal to be in a movie directed by award-winner Chen Kaige (Together, Farewell My Concubine). She has made a handful of TV appearances, been invited to attend numerous public events, and given two live performances. Two websites are devoted exclusively...
...Chen is being baptized in the ritual of self-abnegation characteristic of Hong Kong's popular-entertainment industry, in which stars are not so much born as synthesized. "In Hong Kong, you're lucky to find one (artist) who can really compose and play," says Conrad Wong, an award-winning music producer who worked on five of Chen's songs. "They're usually made up. Talent scouts just pick kids up from modeling agencies or have talent searches at local karaoke bars, then companies select what they want, male or female." So it is with Chen. Even as she struggles...
...AWARDED. TO YANN MARTEL, 39, Spanish-born Canadian novelist; the newly renamed Man Booker Prize and its purse of $75,000 for Life of Pi, a fable about a young boy shipwrecked for a year with a Bengal tiger; in London. Organizers recently suggested that American writers might be nominated for the award as soon as 2004; currently, only writers from Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth are eligible...
...party to celebrate the award of this year's Man Booker Prize to Yann Martel for his novel The Life of Pi, the talk among the champagne-fuelled literati wasn't of near-winners, worthy losers or contentious judges. The chatter accompanying the toasts, the hugs and the kisses in the Union, a members-only club in London, was of the unprecedented success of Canongate Books, the small Edinburgh-based house that published Pi. For the first time, the prestigious annual fiction award for Commonwealth writers went to a book published outside the mainstream houses - and outside London...
...Makiya went to Iraq to inspect documents seized by rebels. The BBC film crew that accompanied him produced an award-winning documentary about his investigation...