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...films. New cinemas are being built in China every day; the mainland box-office market increased by 50% from 2003 to 2004 alone, to $180 million. Piracy remains a concern, but the fact that a pair of co-productions this past December?A World Without Thieves and Kung Fu Hustle?were able to clean up at the box office shows that movies can make real money in China. "This is the only film market in the world where the economy is growing, where there are more people with more disposable income every day," says...
...girlie man.” This quest can dip into the danger zone, however, as perceptions of one’s body and ideals of attractiveness become warped. This is especially true in Western countries, as was evidenced by a research team led by the Harvard undergraduate Chi-Fu Jeffrey Yang ’05 in a study published last week in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Comparing Taiwanese to American and European men, the research team found the Western group to be more preoccupied with a heavy build and more likely to overestimate the “ideal?...
...Based on a Fu Manchu novel by Sax Rohmer, the plot of Daughter of the Dragon extended the curse sworn by Dr. Fu on the Petrie family to the next generation. Fu Manchu (Warner Oland), long ago injured and exiled in an attempt on Petrie Sr., returns to London and confronts the father: "In the 20 years I have fought to live," he says in his florid maleficence, "the thought of killing you and your son has been my dearest nurse." He kills the father, is mortally wounded himself and, on his deathbed, reveals his identity to his daughter Ling...
...lineage, might be expected to struggle, at least briefly, with the shock of her identity and the dreadful deed her father obliges her to perform. But Wong makes an instant transformation, hissing, "The blood is mine. The hatred is mine. The vengeance shall be mine." Just before his death, Fu mourns that he has no son to kill Ronald. But, in a good full-throated reading, Wong vows: "Father, father, I will be your son. I will be your son!" The audience then has the fun of watching her stoke Ronald's ardor while plotting his death. When...
...cast "yellow" dozens of times, including in four films with Wong, and culminating in 16 Charlie Chan movies. When Oland died, in 1938, Missouri-born Sidney Toler was tabbed to replace him; he played the sleuth in 22 films, until his death in 1947. Wong had played Fu Manchu's daughter in 1931, but the following year, when MGM made The Mask of Fu Manchu, that role went to caucasian Myrna Loy, Katharine Hepburn, Walter Huston, Jerry Lewis, Alec Guinness, Shirley MacLaine all applied Oriental makeup for mainstream movies. It wasn't until the late 60s, when Americans were seeing...