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...from the U.S. movie industry. But with one big difference. The existence of an adult classification inhibited American directors; they were unwilling to buck movie studios (which demanded an R or softer rating in contracts) or movie theaters (some of which refused to play non-pornographic adult fare), and simply stopped making rough films for grownups. In Hong Kong, movie people saw the new rating not as an inhibition but as a liberation. Now they could show ... anything! (Except hard-core sex.) The Hong Kong film form, already pretty robust and raunchy, went heedlessly, fearlessly nuts. Soon...
...Because Cat III films were allowed to coexist with tamer fare in the same theaters, they didn?t have the toxic tinge that attaches to sexy and ultra-violent films elsewhere. In the U.S. and Europe, ?ultra? films are separate and lesser industries; for Hong Kong movie people, the line between mainstream and murky backwater is blurrier. Actors like Anthony Wong, Simon Yam, Danny Lee and Kent Cheng shuttled with impunity from one category to the other. They played cannibalistic or necrophiliac killers, crazed cops and deranged victims in Cat III movies, then went back to standard action movies...
...Aesop’s fable “The Country Mouse and the City Mouse,” a mouse from the hinterlands visits his big-city cousin who has long bragged about the superior fare city larders offer. The country mouse finds that while city food is rich, his cousin can partake only by risking his life in a trap or at a cat’s jaws. After narrowly avoiding being eaten on one of these death-defying food forays, the country mouse returns home to enjoy his humble meals in peace...
...month, when Britain's Channel 4 begins airing his series, Revolt in Fashion. Like most fashion documentaries, it tells us what we already knew: that the business is less about art than about money. The few so-called scoops - magazine stylists also moonlight for fashion houses - are hardly tabloid fare. Hemingway begins by declaring: "Parts of the fashion industry stink, and I'm getting the air freshener out." But what we get is pretty stale...
Martire did not fare as well in her first round match, falling to Alexis Gordon of Florida...