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...successfully merge the two, that's when the magic happens." His goal: to use his fame to build a cultural bridge between East and West, playing Chinese music to Western audiences and vice versa. "The West is hungry now for Chinese culture - like the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with its music by Tan Dun," he says. "And in China, young people are devouring Shakespeare. Music moves people so deeply, it can really make them feel differently about each other." Official Website: www.langlang.com
...might look to the past for inspiration, but Shido (who, in the Kabuki tradition, is commonly known by his first name) is very much a man of his day. His film debut in last summer's Ping Pong, in which he played a demonically intense table-tennis champion named Dragon, netted him a Best Newcomer trophy at the Japanese Academy Awards, along with a host of other laurels. He followed up on the small screen in Japan's first sitcom, HR, as a bleached-blond rebel who spooks his night-school classmates with insinuations of underworld connections, and orders pizza...
...prose, the quiet subversion of his deadpan wit and, perhaps, for the fortitude, stoicism and sense of curiosity that had once been Britain's best contribution to the world-at-large. Yet those of us in Asia owe him a particular debt for his two post-war books, A Dragon Apparent and Golden Earth, which caught Vietnam, Laos and Burma as they will never be seen again. Even more than in his novels, in his study of the Mafia or in his description of the changes in a Spanish fishing village, the Asian books (joined later by works on India...
...divorce. They have been married for five years and have a 3-year-old adopted son together, but their union will probably be best remembered for a bizarre incident at the Los Angeles Zoo in which Bronstein was bitten on the foot by a 7-ft.-long komodo dragon and had to be rushed to the hospital. In his petition, Bronstein cited irreconcilable differences. The couple said in a statement that the split is "amicable and mutual" and that they are both "committed to being great parents and having a friendship, as parents, going forward." The rest...
...world and find out whether I was any good at it." She's so good at it that her lawyers are constantly swatting down copycats trying to cash in on Pottermania. Her legal team recently won victories against a Chinese knock-off, Harry Potter and Leopard-Walk-Up-to-Dragon, and a Russian novel about Tanya Grotter, an orphan with magical powers who attends a boarding school. Rowling was badly shaken when an American writer named Nancy Stouffer claimed she had stolen the word muggle and otherwise plagiarized Stouffer's work. A New York City federal judge found that Stouffer...