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...helped introduce Chinese cinema to global audiences, first with finely rendered political allegories and then with more muscular martial-arts epics. On the other hand, Xu--a factory owner's daughter who grew up in go-go China--focuses on what she knows and feels. In her 2002 directorial debut, My Father and I, she explored the upended Confucian hierarchy of contemporary urban Chinese society. That effort, in which she also played the leading role, was followed last year by A Letter from an Unknown Woman, which takes an Austrian novel, places it in war-torn China and contemplates...
...decided to write about their plight, and his accounts of the rural poor resonate with Chinese readers. This year he was nominated for the country's top literary award for debut authors. But China's publishers, wary of offending the censors, haven't been as encouraging. The first edition of Li's 2004 coming-of-age novel, Red X, quickly sold out, but there has not been a second printing. Li, 23, has refused the publisher's request to edit out what it called "morally offensive" passages. Li can't yet support his parents so that they can quit their...
Cameron is a director who virtually lives underwater, from his debut feature Piranha Part Two to his recent marine documentaries. Oh, and Titanic. Cameron's ultimate sea adventure, surely his wettest, is this aquanautic journey leading to the discovery of a new species. There's a whirling wonder in this confrontation. And a sobering message: sometimes the monster on the ocean floor is man. --By Richard Corliss
Training is key. Young@Heart isn't for the tone deaf or the wimpy. Members must audition, although some are making their stage debut, and they must be reasonably hearty to endure long rehearsals, even longer plane rides and, of course, the performances. For the show always goes on. As the group members sing in one of their most popular numbers, Forever Young, by the legendary Dylan, "Be courageous and be brave,/ And in my heart you'll always stay,/ Forever young, forever young, forever young." That's exactly what they intend...
...Since his international debut 12 years ago, McGrath has seldom fit the stereotype of the obsessive sportsman, let alone the boneheaded fast bowler. Raised on a sheep and wheat farm, a straight-A student through school in Narromine, in northwestern New South Wales, McGrath was set to become a carpenter until his talent for propelling a 5.5-ounce lump of cork, string and leather carried him to Sydney and beyond. As a cricketing tourist, he's shown an uncommon appreciation for the peculiar attractions of foreign lands; to his wife, Jane, he's the rock that's stood...