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...turn out) while the current coalition government's ceaseless infighting has "destroyed people's faith in the reform process," says one senior diplomat. All this is proving fertile ground for Tomislav Nikolic, the grim-faced Serbian Radical Party campaigner who is standing in for Vojislav Seselj while the boss prepares his defense. A former cemetery manager, Nikolic is traveling the country with a list of fiery complaints about Serbia's oppressors, from "soulless journalists" trying to destroy his party, to NATO, the Hague and, worst of all, the "servants of the West" in Serbia's current government. To set Serbia...
...meter-tall actor: over the past 30 years he has worked steadily and made a name for himself as one of the most reliable?and castable?actors in Asia. Lately, however, Tsang has won over critics as well as moviegoers with a more sinister turn as Sam, the triad boss in the hit trilogy Infernal Affairs. He relished suspending his animated persona. "I love this role," he grins. "I play the Mafia boss so everybody has to stand behind...
...Having already remade himself as a serious actor, Tsang is now planning his greatest makeover yet. "I want to be the next big boss of Hong Kong films," he says. "Then I could just call a distributor in Korea or Taiwan and say I have a new movie and they would take it without question." He has been founding production companies, such as Alan & Eric and UFO, since the late 1980s and most recently established an entertainment conglomerate called Star East Holdings Ltd., which last year produced the movies The Eye and Three as well as the TV drama...
...contribute a lot to dialogue, costumes, the acting, and the comic setups," he says as Tsang barks more instructions to the younger actors and repositions them in front of the camera. Eric Tsang, Hong Kong's Everyman, might already be on his way to becoming the industry's boss...
...Fans of the first film might be surprised to see Leung co-starring in IA3 along with stalwart police chief Wong (Anthony Wong) and triad boss Sam (Eric Tsang), since all three were dead by the end of the original. But IA3 directors Andrew Lau and Alan Mak solve that potential casting problem by shifting the third film back and forth in time, a few months before the first IA and a few months after its end, when a seemingly free-and-clear Ming rejoins the cops. With Yan, Wong and Sam shimmering across the screen like walking phantoms...