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...Fingers of Death, the first Hong Kong martial arts film to make an impact beyond Chinese-language theaters; of a heart attack; in Shenzhen. Lieh later played reliably fierce villains in kung fu bone crackers such as Dirty Ho and Ninja Massacre, and co-starred with Jackie Chan and Chow...
...pedigree for the baddest of Bad Boys. His father is Canto-popinjay Patrick Tse-yin, prime dude of '60s cinema, who vaulted from "himbo"?male bimbo?roles in comedies and musicals to the haunted hero of the classic Story of a Discharged Prisoner (remade as A Better Tomorrow , with Chow Yun-fat in the Tse role). Nic's mother is Deborah Li, an actress in '70s soft-core sex films (Hong Kong Emmanuelle). They sent Nic to Canada to learn English when he was seven; he then attended a prep school in Arizona. His parents divorced...
...territory's thriving film community lost much of its spark. For decades, domestic product out-grossed the big Hollywood offerings, but Hong Kong has become just another struggling local mini-industry. Part of the problem is the brain drain to the U.S. of directors like Woo and top stars Chow Yun-fat and Jet Li. Even the great cinematographer Christopher Doyle, the Australian Emigr? whose bold, painterly eye set the palette for Wong Kar-wai's moody dramas, has gone traveling again...
...then, do we like these foods so much? For answers, researchers are once again turning to laboratory animals, which exhibit many of the same dietary proclivities we do. Rats, for example, will labor mightily to obtain a sugar pellet even after they have dined on rat chow and aren't particularly hungry. The reason, thinks Allen Levine, director of the University of Minnesota's obesity center, has a lot to do with sugar's impact on mood-enhancing circuits in the brain. Sugar gives rats--and by extension humans--a buzz...
...article, Chow said she used to have “extremely short hair and extremely severe glasses” as an undergraduate...