Word: coco
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...four days to the Oscars ceremony and CoCo Lee is having trouble sleeping. She and a group of kung-fu dancers have been rehearsing two hours a day preparing their rendition of A Love Before Time, the atmospheric theme from the acclaimed film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. But CoCo's recurring nightmare is that on the big night she'll end up showing her, um, wrong side. "I start on a huge platform raised at least two stories off the ground and I have to walk down a stairway, while singing, in five-inch heels," she explains. "My dream...
...heels and red cheongsam were designed by Versace, the $1.3 million diamonds were Harry Winston loaners, but down deep?the underwear, incidentally, was everyday Victoria's Secret?CoCo Lee is a plain-talking, down-to-earth, family-loving pop star whose career has skyrocketed in a remarkably short time. A Hong Kong-California hybrid, CoCo got her big break in Taiwan with a karaoke hit in 1994, which she quickly parlayed into mass fame on the Chinese mainland. Disney hired her to do the Chinese voice-over for the movie Mulan (Celine Dion's big break, remember, was voicing Beauty...
There are two reasons CoCo might actually succeed in making it on both sides of the Pacific?a feat that hasn't been accomplished since The Sukiyaki Song in 1963. First, she's great looking: those almond-eyes and alluring lips, memorable curves, that skin. The second factor is a quaint one: in the epoch of manager-produced boy bands and teen stars, CoCo Lee can actually sing. Bill Conti, Rocky composer and the conductor of this year's Academy Award orchestra, says he sensed her star quality at the first rehearsal. "Her presence reminds me of Celine when...
...CoCo's origins are charmingly mundane. In Hong Kong, CoCo lived with her mother and sisters Nancy and Carol until she was eight. (Her father died before CoCo was delivered.) Then Mama Lee decided her daughters needed English and moved them to San Francisco. After graduating from a California public high school, CoCo returned to Asia. Though she lacked formal training in Chinese-language singing (she speaks Cantonese at home), she won second place in Hong Kong's annual New Talent Singing Contest. A minor Taiwan label gave her a recording contract and, after a fast course in Mandarin...
...trends seen on the haute couture runways: no corsets, like at Versace, Gaultier and Christian Dior; no cut-outs, as seen at Gaultier and Versace; no buckles a la Valentino and Versace (shockingly, no reference to bondage at all!); but what was there was stunning. The suit Coco Chanel created so many years ago came out looking entirely new, with jackets tucked into skirts and belts slung low on the waist. Jean-Paul Gaultier also did a spectacular job of redoing what he does best. Tuxedoes, a trench coat, jeans, corsets were all back with a new twist?a panel...