Word: fu
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Yang’s wife, Harvard Medical School researcher Christina X. Fu, has successfully used Harvard connections to recruit a number of supporters in an attempt to secure her husband’s release...
...Fu was helped in enlisting support in Washington by Yang’s former graduate school classmate, Jared Genser, who works for Freedom Now, an organization which helps to free prisoners of conscience world-wide...
...defining the Hong Kong action movie. Such swaggering epics as The Savage 5, Shaolin Avengers and The Five Venoms filled theater and TV screens around the world, schooling a generation in the intricacies of righteous machismo. He made stars of Jimmy Wang Yu, Ti Lung, David Chiang and Alexander Fu Sheng, and mentored his assistant director (later action master) John Woo. When Chang died June 22, at 79, from pneumonia, the Shaw Brothers studios paid for the funeral of its most prolific, pioneering auteur. In Hong Kong, movie spirits are at half-mast...
...making the film was hell. Jiang's rigid perfectionism prolonged the shooting by months. Some days he wouldn't film because he didn't know what he wanted. Jiang's assistant director for Heat, Fu Jia, now an executive at Columbia Pictures' office in Beijing, was so scarred by the experience she hasn't worked on the set of a movie since. "It was a nightmare," she shudders. As the shooting of the summer idyll ran into winter, Jiang had freezing actors in summer clothes eating ice cream before takes so that their frosted breath wouldn't appear on film...
...HEAVYWEIGHT Thai kickboxing twins Maki and Aki didn't see the guitar coming. Billy Chaka, ace investigative reporter for Youth in Asia teen magazine and expert in kung fu, kenpo, Tae-kwondo, jeet kune do, capoeira and "many of the esoteric brands between," outfought the duo with a cherry-red Gibson and plunged back into Tokyo's pulsating streets. His mission: to figure out what a little bird had to do with the deaths of a night porter in Hokkaido and the country's most beloved rock star...