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...Before actors join a Wong Kar-wai film, the director says, "They don't know the whole story, but they know their story. Zhang Ziyi, because she knows she's going to play a ballroom dancer in the '60s, has to be given a lot of homework. I have to give her all of these films from the period, so she can understand the gestures, the actions. And also I give her all the costumes, because she has to get those manners down. Gong Li's character is a gambler, so Li headed down to Macau incognito to watch gamblers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 2046: A Film Odyssey | 9/27/2004 | See Source »

...script or that everything is improvised. But that's not true. Most of the actors, when they join the production, they know their story. They don't know their whole story, but they know their chapter. Like Zhang Ziyi, because she knows she's going to play a ballroom dancer in the 60s, and she doesn't have any idea what that is. She's coming from a totally different background. I have to give her a lot of homework. I have to give her all of these films from the period, so she can understand the gestures, the actions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "We love what we can't have, and we can't have what we love" | 9/27/2004 | See Source »

...said I didn't love that kind of music and want that audience." Growing up in Start, La., McGraw was as much a fan of '70s AM radio as he was of Merle Haggard, and on McGraw's past tour he performed a surprisingly faithful cover of Tiny Dancer that left Elton John gushing. He has also taken the stage with good friend Kid Rock, an avowed conservative, and recently recorded a hip-hop ballad with Nelly for the rapper's new album. "Tim's supercool, man," says Nelly. "His taste in music is a lot broader than people think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Clinton Of Country | 9/20/2004 | See Source »

...stunningly beautiful dancer who caught the eye of North Korea's "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il and became his favorite companion. But as with much of the internal workings of the world's most secretive regime, little else is known about Ko Young Hee?not even whether she and Kim were ever married. Now, South Korean authorities are scrambling to decipher rumors that Ko has died?either of breast cancer following treatment in Paris or by succumbing to injuries sustained in a car accident last year. Seoul has learned that she was seriously ill, according to a source close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rumors of a Death | 8/30/2004 | See Source »

...Notre Dame Cathedral’s crucifix adorned by an oversized Red Sox hat suddenly seemed all too real. An “obligatory” visit to the renowned establishment “Super Sex” was threatened to be derailed by the prospect of a dancer providing a tantalizing performance only to reveal a suggestively placed tattoo countering The Curse...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, | Title: Of Sox and Sucking | 8/20/2004 | See Source »

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