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Tom’s performance in Boylston Hall’s Fong Auditorium, coordinated by the Asian American Association (AAA), included portrayals of her parents, grandmother and former self drawn from her show 25 Psychics, and was followed by a question-and-answer session in which she advised a predominantly Asian American audience to be more active in the entertainment industry...

Author: By Mary KATHRYN Burke, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Actress Dazzles With One Women Show | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

...Tuxedo, is a wan spy caper with digital tricks that undermine Chan's amazing physical grace. Shu Qi, the Taiwan-born beguiler, has better luck with her English-language debut, The Transporter, a furious demolition derby produced by Besson and directed by Hong Kong action auteur Corey Yuen (Fong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia Scares America | 11/7/2002 | See Source »

...DIED. KAM FONG CHUN, 84, former real-life police officer known to millions as the trusted, tough detective Chin Ho Kelly in the TV crime series Hawaii Five-O; in Honolulu. Believing that the scripts had grown stale, Chun eventually allowed his character to be killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 11/4/2002 | See Source »

...stages Chinese opera to sparse crowds, while his son (Jose Llana) tries to modernize the place with glitzy American-style shows. Some of Hwang's rewrite is too clever by half: midway through the evening the old man gets the show-biz bug and changes his name to Sammy Fong (a separate character in the original), while his son does a backflip and becomes the defender of tradition. Screw heads back on here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Not Just Chop Suey | 10/28/2002 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Triple Whammy | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

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