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...Jiang has every reason to be exhausted. He's a notoriously choosy actor who usually appears in just one movie a year, yet his brooding mug will flicker through five films in the next 12 months. Missing Gun?a fast-paced crime flick about a small town cop whose frantic search for his stolen pistol unearths a web of provincial vice?is Jiang's first appearance in a film since Devils on the Doorstep, which he co-wrote, directed and starred in. Two years ago, Devils, a black-and-white masterpiece about the Japanese occupation of a Chinese village...
...still strictly forbidden. Once a customer managed to sneak in a shot, but the telltale flash sent police running upstairs. "They grabbed the camera, and ripped out the film," says proprietor Udai. The view is free?that is if you can resist the eager sales pitch. The slightest flicker of interest in the brightly hued bolts of fabric will send Udai scurrying to unfurl a cascade of iridescent silks across the floor and over your lap. What's the view worth? A $10 pair of tailored silk trousers is good value...
After Lane's first tryst with her lover, the camera sits quietly on her, displaying her quicksilver emotions: a pang of guilt, a flicker of pleasure, finally tears and hysterical laughter. Lane downplays this acting feat. "I was tired, and that's how I freak out," she says. "Now I know what I look like when I do it." Gere, however, is impressed. "I've never seen an actress pull off something like that," he says. "It's one of the great scenes ever filmed." We'll let the hyperbole stand...
Despite my fear, I decided to plan a vacation in Europe for Spring Break. The trip seemed so far away that I was safe. Slowly but surely, however, my unease about travel grew from an ominous flicker on the horizon when planning the trip to a tangible approaching reality. As the date of my imminent departure grew near, doubt gave way to panic attacks. The attacks would hit me at random times during the day, usually beginning with a heavy lurch of the stomach. Then came the short mental picture of the inside of a plane, oxygen masks down, plummeting...
...time Beijing made a bid for the Olympic Games. That was 1993, and he was serving seven years for supporting the 1989 student demonstrations that ended in the disastrous Tiananmen Square massacre. There was no way he could support the bid, Ren recalls. The Olympic torch would cast a flicker of legitimacy over the Communist Party. Released five years ago, Ren can now crusade against Beijing's current attempt to be host to the 2008 Summer Games. But he isn't, and not because he's afraid. Instead he is hopeful that the Games will empower leaders who favor political...