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...quarter-century, from early Bruce Lee to late Jackie Chan, martial arts was the pulse to which Hong Kong films ticked and kicked. Those were expressions of the industry's vital adolescence. Hero shows how the same vitality can serve a thoughtful, resonant, mainland maturity. This is a story of noble insurgence against noble fidelity, and of the ways love may find its fulfillment only in death. Zhang Yimou may have dipped his cinematic pen in "mere" genre, but in doing so, he has inscribed a masterpiece...
...youthful 52, is coy about his plans, and he's got some limbering up to do within his party before he can think of a run. KMT Chair-man Lien Chan stood for election in 2000 and did badly, scoring 23% of the vote, but he might run again. KMT defector James Soong also has presidential ambitions, and he nearly beat Chen in 2000 as a third-party candidate. If Soong runs, Ma's support would be split. "If there are two sets of can-didates," Ma tells TIME, "we will only repeat the defeat of two years...
...thought to be the stuffy monolith whose primacy was usurped in the '70s by the upstart Golden Harvest. That was the company smart enough to sign Bruce Lee when Run Run Shaw offered the actor a lowball figure, and to find budding star quality in a runt named Jackie Chan...
...Kathryn Chan, a fellow in visual arts, says the current meeting location in the Cronkite Center doesn’t “have a totally professional feel...
...pleasures and outrages. In Wilson Yip?s ?Bio Zombie,? which shambles through an hour of slacker slapstick set in a Hong Kong mall (it could be called ?Chungking Excess?) before it gets to providing actual entertainment value with a half-hour of vampire carnage, the two boho heroes, Jordan Chan and Sam Lee, spend half their time in the toilet. Chan: ?What are you doing here?? Lee: ?I am stooling...