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...investors get a share of the profits if the movie is a hit (if it flops, they lose). Besides the funding, production companies get a squad of investor-marketers who care as much about box office numbers as they do about whether the guy gets the girl. Choi Chang Yeop, a 31-year-old freelance business lecturer, invested $750 in the film Jakarta and is among the new movie minimoguls. He spends hours on the Web posting glowing reviews of his film, a black comedy about bank robbers. He urges fellow Netizens to see the flick and has joined...
...from that film all-woman, and her subsequent roles tended to place her as the young love interest of a middle-aged man (Jackie Chan, Gorgeous) or a destroyer of older men (Eric Tsang, My Loving Trouble). But she was missing out on some big roles. Taiwan director Sylvia Chang chose then Hong Kong It-Girl Gigi Leung over Shu Qi for Tempting Heart in 1999, fearing the growth of the character from teenage girl to mature woman would be too much of a stretch for Shu Qi. The actress, Chang feared, couldn't successfully communicate innocent. For good reason...
...That's what Oh Chang Shik has discovered. He lost his right to reside in China when he moved from there to the more prosperous North Korea in the '60s. After two of his eight children died of hunger, he returned to Yanji in 1998. Last week, as part of the crackdown, Oh was taken away by police but managed to escape when their car had a flat tire. He is now in hiding again. In the border towns, too, North Koreans are living on the edge. Park Hye Sook crossed the frozen Tumen in January. At first life...
...Chang made almost annual trips to China for archeological digs. He was also an author of many books on China's history--considered by others in the field as one of the best English language works on ancient China...
...accomplishments of Chang were honored through his membership in the National Academy of Science and fellowship in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Chang earned a doctorate degree from Harvard...