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Director Benny Chan has packed Heroic Duo with sophisticated weaponry, high-speed car chases and dizzying stunts, including one stomach-quivering sequence in which a character traverses two skyscrapers using a wobbly, metal stepladder. Noticeably absent are high-wire kung fu acrobatics; Chan, who first gained notoriety with kung fu fantasy Magic Crane, apparently no longer wants anything to do with Chinamen in robes?unless they're behind the wheel of a Ferrari Testarossa...
...chart show, the ICAC launched a full-scale investigation of Hong Kong's entertainment world last Wednesday and has since arrested some 28 industry bigwigs. Those arrested include singer Juno Mak; his father Clement Mak, the chairman of CCT Telecom, which owns Mak's management company, Mellow Studio; Alex Chan, the president of Mak's record label, Universal Music Hong Kong; three staff members of local broadcaster TVB; and Albert Yeung, the founder of Emperor Entertainment Group. Several of Yeung's stars, including Eason Chan, Nicholas Tse and Joey Yung, were spotted at ICAC offices and were thought...
...year-old boy with a gunshot wound to the head. On Wednesday, Celia Cruz, the Cuban-born "Queen of Salsa" whom Castro barred from ever returning to Cuba, died in exile in New Jersey at the age of 78.
Chan Chan, Segundo's signature song, every night, ending the song ending in a chorus about Segundo. The band chanted out his name as the lead singer belted over the top, literally singing Segundo's praises. Of all the lines sung in those homages, I remember this one particularly well today: "Compay...
...concessions to the crowds, including the scrapping of provisions giving police arbitrary powers to enter homes, he has not addressed the underlying crisis of confidence in his government. His concessions failed to go far enough, provoking a sharp public reaction. Even Hong Kong's popular former Chief Secretary Anson Chan broke her usual queenly reticence. "Both the government and the Legislative Council have demonstrated that they were not responsive to community aspirations," she stated. "It almost seems as if they're daring the people to take to the streets...
...ANSON CHAN Chan, 63, would easily win the job if the Chief Executive were chosen through popular vote. The territory's Chief Secretary during the last British Administration and during Tung's first term, the always cool and elegant-looking Chan is widely known as "Hong Kong's conscience" for her vocal defense of the city's autonomy and desire for full democracy