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...cool '70s thing." He's tried wherever possible to replicate the devices favored by his kung fu forbears, which means using such low-tech innovations as Chinese condoms filled with fake blood. The actors pop them at the critical moment?a nod to the recently deceased Chinese director Chang Cheh, who Tarantino says invented the technique for his 1970 film Vengeance. The impassioned cinEaste in Tarantino wants every drop of blood?this scene alone will require 100 gallons of it?to authentically recall the films to which he's paying tribute. So his special effects team employs a selection...
...December elections, confirming speculation that has gathered force since Korea's remarkable World Cup run. Chung, also an independent legislator in the National Assembly, has deep wells of World Cup popularity to draw from; current polls already give him a 10% lead over opposition candidate Lee Hoi-chang. President Kim Dae-jung's ruling Millennium Democratic Party has made overtures to Chung, but the football chief says he will form an independent party shortly after he officially declares his candidacy. In running for the presidency, Chung is fulfilling the dreams of his late father Chung Ju-yung, the founder...
...APPOINTED. CHANG DAE-WHAN, 50, as Prime Minister of South Korea after being chosen by President Kim Dae Jung; in Seoul. Chang is the president and publisher of the Maeil Business newspaper, the country's largest economics daily, and was tapped for the largely ceremonial role after Kim's original choice was vetoed earlier this month. Chang now faces confirmation hearings in an opposition-controlled parliament...
...start because he wears a black silk smoking jacket and uses words such as apropos.) Karl hires Eric (Chaplin), a master thief with the requisite heart of gold, to help him get the sharira. In turn, Eric involves his old girlfriend Lin (Yeoh) and her little brother Tong (Brandon Chang), star performers in a Chinese circus and descendants of the acrobatic family of destiny. The action careens from Qingdao to Dun Huang to Tibet, stopping for comic relief along the way. There is also some fighting, though not nearly enough...
SOUTH KOREA No Primary Role The National Assembly voted to reject the appointment of Chang Sang as the country's first female Prime Minister. President Kim Dae Jung said the vote was a blow to his country's women and that South Korea could not expect to become successful if its women continued to play a secondary role. The vote against Chang followed allegations that she had conducted ethically dubious speculation in land, claimed falsely to have studied at Princeton University and encouraged her son to take U.S. citizenship to avoid military service: all denied by Chang...