Word: diva
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...fall from a great height: that befits a tragic hero or, in Leslie's case, a tragic diva. For if Brigitte Lin embodied the woman-man in such '90s films as Swordsman II and Ashes of Time, then Leslie was Asia's definitive man-woman. More persuasively so, because for Lin it was a role; for Leslie it was life. A gay man in a society intolerant of gays, he never explicitly acknowledged his homosexuality. But neither did he try to suppress it, as some Hong Kong stars have done. He was too much the showman, the exhibitionist...
...Japan BoA Concert [April 5, 6] She is the first Korean star to rise to the No. 1 spot on the Japanese music charts. Sixteen-year-old diva BoA will perform at Tokyo's Yoyogi National Stadium in her first Japanese tour since her fourth single Listen to My Heart sold more than 100,000 copies in the country in early 2002. Call (813) 3489 9999 regarding tickets...
...BRUNCH,” the tent proclaimed in HUDS’ signature hyperbolic prose. “Sunday, March 16. Come work the red carpet and cast your ballot for this year’s Oscars. Take a walk among the stars and enjoy a feast fit for a diva who has just captured the coveted golden statue. Catch up on some films past and present, and be sure to enter your guesses for this year’s winners. Your predictions may win you some classic movie memorabilia. Thank you to the Academy?...
While I doubted very much that any diva who had just captured a golden statue would be eating Chicken Français à la HUDS, and while it was difficult to see how outfitting the kitchen staff with plastic top hats would catch us up on any film other than 1935’s Ginger Rogers-Fred Astaire spectacular “Top Hat” (which garnered four Oscar nominations but not a single win), I found HUDS’ efforts touchingly quixotic. How deeply invested in the Academy Awards could any Harvard student be? The awards?...
...London in search of a sacred scroll?but never makes it to Shanghai?is serviceable. The script contrives to convene every Victorian celebrity, from Jack the Ripper and Arthur Conan Doyle to Queen Victoria herself. The stars have an easy rapport, and share it graciously with Singapore TV-diva Fann Wong, who's quite appealing as Chon's sister. It's all disposable, second-rate fun. But at least director David Dobkin had the bright idea to let Chan, for the first time in a U.S. film, supervise the action scenes. Knights atones for Chan's dismal The Tuxedo, which...