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...novelist Edgar Wallace gets a co-credit (he died of pnuemonia only three days into the script). In 1926 adventurer W. Douglas Burden traveled to a remote and legendary island in the South Seas at the behest of New York's Museum of Natural History to bring back a dragon. Two dragons, to be exact: Komodo dragons, 300 pounds heavy and 10 feet long, lizards that ended up in the Bronx Zoo and quickly pined away in the forbidding environs of New York. Burden told the story to his friend Cooper and a lightbulb appeared...
...Sitting on the blue vinyl flooring of her Bangkok hut, Jacky leans her bare back against the plank wall, her dragon tattoos glistening with sweat as she trims her fingernails with a straight razor. It has been two days?no, three?without sleep, sitting in this hut and smoking the little pink speed tablets off sheets of tinfoil stripped from Krong Tip cigarette packets. Now, as the flushes of artificial energy recede and the realization surfaces that there's no more money anywhere in this hut, Jacky is crashing hard and she hates everyone and everything. Especially Bing. She hates...
...need help, dear speculators in the far corners of the world. (For movies, you're in the corner; we Americans are in the center.) This year is a particular challenge: the nominations offer the battle of the epics (Gladiator vs. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) as well as the schizophrenic saga of the director with two movies (Steven Soderbergh, with Traffic and Erin Brockovich). Since nobody is an expert on this subject, we can blithely pass along bits of received wisdom and arcane Oscar lore so you will be better informed than your neighbor. To succeed in the Oscar sweepstakes, read...
...CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON Cover: Instant Classic Taiwan filmmaker Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is not only a star- studded epic, but also a rule- bending masterpiece that weds martial arts with sense and sensibility ? All Aboard for the Zhang High Express: Actress Zhang Ziyi sizzles ? 'I Felt Like a Mouse and Ang Lee was a Lion': Zhang Ziyi on acting, stardom and Richard Gere in this web-only exclusive interview ? 'It's Emotional and Dramatic': Michelle Yeoh is no stranger to action-packed films, but the going was tough in Ang Lee's surefire hit ? 'I Thought...
...RELATED Asia's Fine Performance The region's filmmakers score big at this year's Cannes festival, winning four of the top prizes (6/5/2000) Back to China In the martial-arts drama Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Ang Lee and a cast of big stars struggle with moviemaking on the mainland (11/29/99) PHOTO ESSAY On Set With Ang Lee Elaborate sets, derring-do and big stars are all found in the martial-arts drama "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon...