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...film, then allowed its release after deleting scenes that depicted Maoist torture and pigheadedness. But this half-century panorama of the Peking Opera is at heart a swirling entertainment -- outsize emotions drawn on a vast, colorful canvas -- with a seductive, star-is-born turn by Hong Kong actor Leslie Cheung...
...early word is that his musical, Perhaps Love, is brilliant. The $10 million movie was selected for the closing spot in the Venice Film Festival before Chan had finished post-production. (The movie will be released in December.) Indie icon Takeshi Kaneshiro (House of Flying Daggers), pop idol Jacky Cheung (Ashes of Time) and luminous mainlander Zhou Xun (The Little Chinese Seamstress) star as actors in contemporary Shanghai filming a musical set in the decadent 1930s. A love triangle ensues, giving the stars a chance to work out their feelings in song?and dance, choreographed by India's Farah Khan...
...follow-up to Wong's In the Mood for Love, about the furtive affair of a journalist, Chow (Leung), and a woman (Maggie Cheung) living in the same boardinghouse. Now Chow, relocated to a hotel, has erotic adventures with a prostitute (Zhang Ziyi), a gambler (Gong Li), a vamp named Lulu (Carina Lau) and the hotel manager's beguiling daughter (Faye Wong), who is also a mysterious android in the science-fiction novel Chow is trying to write...
...talk to you right now. I'm climbing." ALAIN ROBERT, a.k.a. Spiderman, French climber known for his unauthorized ascents of some of the world's tallest buildings, answering a reporter's questions while scaling Hong Kong's 62-story Cheung Kong Center last week...
...acting Chief Executive so he could run on July 10 for the top job in an election he can't lose: the voting bloc is an 800-member electoral college made up largely of local pro-mainland movers and shakers. "It's a paradox," says Professor Anthony Cheung, chairman of pro-democracy think tank SynergyNet. "Beijing is stepping in, has more control, is interfering. At the same time it has become more sensitive to local sentiments...