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...There is lots of amazing Latin American literature that I’d love to be able to read. However, there are some things I’m happy I don’t know much about. For example, I know very little about contemporary television. I have a DVD player, and I watch movies all the time, but I don’t usually watch broadcast television or cable. I used to enjoy it, but it took up too much time, I decided to give it up—along with booze and cigarettes. I used to smoke...
...Yuen directed such classic martial arts films as Fong Sai Yuk and Hong Xiguan zhi Shaolin Wu Zu (released this year on DVD in the U.S. as Legend of the Red Dragon). He also choreographed Jet Li in seven action films. The director's flair for building memorable kung fu moments has put him in high demand in the U.S., where he has been asked by several studios to reshoot some of his earlier works in English. Sitting in a hotel suite overlooking the Hong Kong skyline, the jovial director insists his movies are not only about violent engagements...
...himself during matches. It's not the way the words are flattened by Hewitt's Aussie twang. It's the intensity with which they are delivered. Sometimes there's a variation, such as "C'mooannn, Rocky!", a salute to Hewitt's fictional fighting hero Rocky Balboa. He carries a dvd of Rocky IV on the road to crank himself up, although that seems unnecessary, considering the passion he puts into his game. "It helps me when I show some emotion out there," says Hewitt, 21. Emotion, even if it's negative, he says, "gives my opponent...
...office this year. Some in Hollywood are skeptical about the profitability of films with such expensive stars and special effects, but her summer slate of pictures has broken all records. "People want spectacle in the summertime," insists Pascal, 44, "and obviously the ancillary markets [like video and DVD] will be gigantic...
...solar division of Shell to turn raw silicon wafers into photovoltaic cells. And Kok has returned to work in the optical-media sector, designing in-line machines to mass-produce all types of dvds. His company has invented a type of compression-molding technology called the E-Clamp. Existing DVD-production machines require operators to change molds every time they want to switch production to a different type of CD or DVD--say, from single-sided discs to double-sided ones--at a cost of about $50,000 a change. With the E-Clamp, the same mold can be used...