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Chan, of course, is a smallish, sweet-smiling man whose sense of humor irresistibly enlightens his martial artistry. In Shanghai Noon he's a guard in China's Forbidden City who intrudes himself on a mission to rescue Princess Pei-Pei (Lucy Liu), who, avoiding an arranged marriage, has run far, far away to Carson City, Nev. There she is enslaved by Lo Fong (Roger Yuan), an unredeemable bad guy who is exploiting Chinese railroad workers, smuggling dope and demanding a ransom...
...parents defused our sibling fights by enforcing some unusual ground rules at home. My siblings and I were told to treat the word hate like a forbidden swear word. We also couldn't tell one another to "shut up." Without access to this sort of incendiary language, fighting was less satisfying. And although no one ever insisted that I had to like my brother and sisters (yuck!), we were expected to be grudgingly loyal to one another. This was driven home to me the time my big sisters intervened in a problem I was having with a playmate by telling...
...Philips dates his passion for wine to the Passover tables of his childhood, where "wine was the one thing forbidden to the kids." By the time he was in his teens, he was taking tasting courses in his hometown of Berkeley, Calif. And though Philips studied film at U.S.C., got a master's at Oxford and bounced from job to job, he spent his free time sniffing, swirling and spitting his way through the world's wines. "Preparation," he says, "for what I was supposed to be doing...
Ideas for other challenges will surface. My son Justin suggests that each candidate be asked to demonstrate a proficiency in dancing the Lambada, the forbidden dance of love. I reject the idea. It does not comport with the dignity of the office...
...happens, is Beijing. Without fanfare, crews in the capital last month started construction of Beijing's National Theater, a glitzy, $420 million monument to modernity just minutes from the imperial splendor of the Forbidden City. Designed by French architect Paul Andreu, the voluptuous glass and titanium complex will encompass an opera house, a 2,500-seat conventional theater, an experimental theater complete with rotating stage, and a 2,000-seat concert hall. The cultural overhaul has taken nearly a half-century to get under way: former Premier Zhou Enlai first conceived of a national stage in 1958, but plans languished...