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...hard to tell what looks worse at the start of Hollywood Hong Kong: the blanched, blood-flecked, bloated pig carcasses hanging in Chu's Barbecue Shop, or the blanched, blood-flecked, bloated Mr. Chu (Glen Chin) and his obese sons Ming (Ho Sai-man) and Tiny (Leung Sze-ping). Perhaps the pigs, in a toss-up. They are dead. The Chus look only halfway there...
...movie is Zhou's first outside of mainland China, but her luscious portrayal of Tong Tong, a woman by turns wide-eyed and desperate, shanghais the show. That's no mean feat for an ingenue, and except for Zhou and Glen Chin, all the film's actors are amateurs Chan plucked from the street. Despite the director's deft touch with comic characters, not all manage watchable performances. Chin's gruff, soulful Chu is a match for Tong Tong, and Leung earns kudos as the least annoying fat kid in recent Chinese cinema. But Ho's Ming does little more...
...high," says Zhou, 23. "We've been eating too much and gaining weight. We find we must exercise?otherwise we just can't perform at work." The government is contributing to the cause. In the past two years, it has spent $30 million installing exercise equipment, such as chin-up bars and jogging paths, in 1,100 city parks throughout China...
...Hong Kong, a city of shrewd dealmakers, is left looking Dumbo for failing to get a noncompete clause in writing?which the Paris and Tokyo Disneylands had both secured. Still, Michael Chin, senior director of PricewaterhouseCoopers's North Asia leisure industry consulting group, believes China's huge population "is big enough to support both parks easily." It's not such a small world, after...
...reached the Thai border town of Mae Sai. "Growing up in Thailand, I was fascinated by my parents' stories of home," says Chai, 37. "So when I was 17, I came back." He found work as a goldsmith, obtained a Chinese ID card, and last March opened Chai Chuan Chin?fulfilling a lifelong dream...