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...staring sadly into the middle distance; and Wong shows this not-very-much-happening in his patented dreamy slo-mo. Jones also has a similar background to many performers from Wong's Hong Kong films: Leung, Leslie Cheung, Faye Wong, Andy Lau, Leon Lai and dozens of others were Canto-pop stars before they were accomplished actors...
...sound" have been inspirations for her own stupendous rise, comparisons can also be unhelpful. She would be the first to point out that she has yet to make a recording or grace the European opera stages that forged Sutherland's fame. But in the budding boldness of her bel canto one can already sense a magical symmetry forming-of another down-to-earth spirit allied to a heavenly voice...
...Canto By Ann Patchett Harper Perennial...
...visiting, hungry dead. These three particular ofrendas have been erected to the memory of an American, Bradley Will, the freelance documentary filmmaker shot dead on Friday as he recorded a clash between protesters and pro-government vigilantes. Further away, on the street called Cal y Canto, by a barricade, there is a more shocking ofrenda to Will's memory: one adorned with a photograph of his naked body in the morgue, framed by handwritten messages and cempazuchil, the yellow flower of the dead, as well as an image of the Virgin of Juquila. The altar is lit by copal...
...Indeed, after the thump, thump, thumping came a reading from the peninsula's poet-prophet, with the Italian actor Giorgio Albertazzi reciting an inspiring passage from Dante's Divine Comedy. In a fiery scene, scores of legs kicked in the air, evoking the sinners' feet in the Inferno's Canto XX. How unholy is the thrill when you sense that the circles of hell have, in the end, been transformed into the Olympic rings...