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...Little Lit" has been published by an imprint of HarperCollins, other traditional trade publishers are also exploring the children's comix genre. Simon and Schuster has just released two volumes of Frenchman Joann Sfar's wonderful "Little Vampire" series: "Little Vampire Goes to School" and "Little Vampire Does Kung Fu!" (30 pp.; $12.95 each.) Marketed to readers 10 and up, the first book begins when Little Vampire, feeling lonely at the haunted mansion with nothing but adult monsters and ghosts around, decides he wants to go to school. He goes at night, but sadly discovers no one is there...
However, the music is clearly meant to complement the movie’s kung-fu schlock. Without the movie’s visual hi-jinks, the collection of songs comes across obscure and often bizarre: take Zamfir’s four-minute flute rendition of “The Lonely Shepard”, or “Crane / White Lightning” by RZA and Charles Berenstein, which sounds like the street fighter version of an Ennio Morricone piece...
...woman in front of her 4-year-old child," says Thurman. "You can't really stack the cards against a character much higher." There was also the matter of the martial-arts training Tarantino expected his leading lady--three months removed from childbirth--to endure. "Three styles of kung fu, two styles of sword fighting"--Thurman says this through pursed lips, as if she's going to spit--"knife throwing, knife fighting, hand-to-hand combat, Japanese speaking. It was literally absurd...
...Yang, now 40, first left his homeland in 1986, he did so out of a sense of patriotic duty. The prevailing wisdom of the decade after the Cultural Revolution held that science, not politics, was the key to China's future. "Jianli decided to study math at Berkeley," says Fu, now a statistician at Harvard Medical School, "because he wanted to serve his country." But when the student democracy protesters began to flood Tiananmen Square in the spring of 1989, Yang forsook his equations for late nights watching the TV news. And after Deng Xiaoping declared martial law several weeks...
...visit Harvard. Later came China's accession to the World Trade Organiza-tion and Beijing's winning bid to host the 2008 Olym-pics. In this atmosphere Yang began to experience doubts. "The temptation to see for himself what was really happening at home became stronger and stronger," says Fu, "He was starting to feel too cut off." Yang told a distraught Fu that he'd just take a quick look around and be back in 10 days...