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...maybe they think that punishing her body for film art--by, say, leaping off the top of a runaway truck to land splat! on the hood of Chan's speeding convertible--is all Michelle Yeoh does. She recalls that on one of her first L.A. photo shoots, "The beautician told me, 'You know, for a stuntwoman you have gorgeous nails.' Well, thank you, but I'm an actress who just happens to enjoy doing my own stunts. It'd be nice if people could see me for what...
...Congress doesn't need a facial. It needs a fire hose," said Brownback, 39, after discovering that Congress had its own beautician. The lawyer and former farm broadcaster has taken a scouring approach to politics, both in the House as a freshman and in Kansas, where he scored a primary win over moderate Sheila Frahm, the anointed heiress to Bob Dole's seat. As for November, well, Kansas hasn't had a Democratic Senator since...
...Hong Kong heartthrob Leslie Cheung, both of whom starred in Chen's 1993 hit, Farewell My Concubine. Gong Li picks up a TV remote and pretends it's a telephone ("Wei? Wei?"--"Hello?"), then playfully runs it under a prop man's arm as if she were a beautician with an electric shaver...
Nobody's You's acting is competent, with a few real stand-outs. Cowan gives an excellent performance as Karin; her presence and thoughtfulness as an actress serve well the beautician's combination of self-confidence and vulnerability. Raizes holds his own as Jack, though at times his character's ineffectual nature seems a bit forced. Paredes is exuberent as the effervescent Virginia, though unfortunately her energy sometimes overwhelms her sense of timing and delivery. Liz Amberg and Rosalie Parker are memorable as the ill, subsequently dead Grandmother Mallard and the sexually charged, Coke-guzzling Romanian receptionist. Brett Conner deserves...
...plot is a gimmick in two brisk acts. In the first we meet six characters in search of a murder: Tony, a flamboyantly gay barber; Barbara, a tough-doll beautician; Eddie, a shady dealer in antiques; the patrician Mrs. Shubert; and two other salon customers who are soon revealed as detectives. They're staking out the building's upstairs tenant, Isabel Czerny, a reclusive concert pianist. Sure enough, the unseen Isabel is murdered. O.K.-whodunit...