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...veteran, Lebed protected Boris Yeltsin during the hard-liners' coup in 1991, ended bloodshed in Moldova's breakaway Transdniester region in July 1992 and signed the peace accord that ended the first Chechen war, in August 1996. DIED. LUNG SI-HUNG, 72, known for his portrayal of the master-chef dad in the 1994 Taiwanese hit, Eat Drink Man Woman; in Taipei. Lung achieved international acclaim for his roles in Pushing Hands, The Wedding Banquet and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, all helmed by Oscar-nominated director, Ang Lee. (See Eulogy). DIED. RUTH HANDLER, 85, co-founder of the Mattel...
...silver screen, LUNG SIHUNG was everyone's favorite father figure. The Taiwanese actor played them all?the Tai Chi father, the chef father, father of a gay son, father of a woman warrior. His roles came to personify the Eastern patriarch caught in the winds of change sweeping the lives of his children. His careworn appearance was a factor in his fame. I originally wanted him in my productions because he had a face ethnic Chinese could identify with. But the reason Ang Lee and I cast Lung in the "Father Knows Best" trilogy?Pushing Hands, The Wedding Banquet...
...holds 200 seminars and ceremonies a year, Tricia's lawyer says it has become a "theme park," with its peddling of Nixon-and-Elvis T shirts and its use for proms, bar mitzvahs and weddings. "Impress your guests," one ad says, "by serving a state dinner prepared by a chef to five Presidents." A bride wanting that Rose Garden glow can Rent-A-Gazebo, the same one beneath which Tricia said, "I do," to Edward Cox, the New York lawyer who many think is behind Tricia's efforts...
...menu of the restaurant rotates every three months as the chef aims to recreate the experience of traveling through various regions of Italy. When we visited, Centro was stopping by the Veneto region, which—according to the menu—is known for “its creative use of spices, fresh produce and the simple treatment of meat and fish.” Our enthusiastic server warmly introduced us to the menu, meticulously going through the ingredients and execution of each item...
...cold appetizer” (the menu divides its lighter dishes by temperature rather than character) was spring vegetable antipasto with crispy flattered ($9). The waitress promised that this would be a spunky, impromptu plate of the chef’s whims. Perhaps exhausted from culinary globetrotting, the chef did not seem to put too much effort into ours. While the eggplant spread was great on the house-made flatbread and the marinated fennel showed signs of life, the various pieces of unadorned cauliflower, asparagus and potato fell very much into the “I could make this?...