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...year-old Staten Island, N.Y., native, made what he called a pilgrimage to China. After being forced from Tiananmen Square for displaying a self-promoting billboard, Diggs took to the hills. To be specific, he ascended Wu-Tang Mountain, where according to legend (his), he was received by kung fu masters at several monasteries. As Diggs exited a Shaolin temple, he says, a crowd of several hundred children awaited him. He proceeded to communicate the only way he knew--by rapping. "They didn't speak English, but I blew their minds and they all came asking for autographs and pictures...
...brand was born in 1992, when the group became an underground sensation by developing an urban-gangster-as-warrior persona based on old kung fu movies (RZA's passion). Wu-Tang has since evolved into a hybrid of Pokemon and Dungeons and Dragons, prepackaged for suburban teens and complete with video games, comics and, coming soon, animated films. It's all embodied in Wu-Tang's stamp of approval, a Batman-like chubby...
...three-year hiatus after their 1997 record-setting double album Wu-Tang Forever, the group's Wu-Wear clothing line hit $15 million in annual sales, a new Wu comic-book line briefly nudged out X-Men for the top spot in the country, and its first kung fu video game sold 600,000 units for Sony PlayStation. Six Clan members recorded successful solo albums...
Although Caroline at first might seem in contrast to the sexy kung-fu mistress Trinity-particularly in terms of their historical and social contexts-under the surface both woman are rather similar; they are both strong, determined and believe deeply in their convictions. In Chocolat, Caroline attempts to stand between her libertine mother Armande (Judi Dench) and her own son Luc (Aurelien Parent-Koenig), wishing to prevent their reunion, until Vianne foils her plan. Along with Chocolat, Moss can currently be seen as Commander Kate Bowman in Red Planet as well as Natalie in Memento. She has also committed...
...when the focus of digital software will migrate from desktop PCs linked to the Internet by phone wire to a plethora of newfangled, Web-ready products ranging from TVs and cell phones to dashboards and Palm Pilots. "You'll have the Internet in your pocket, anytime, anywhere," says Kai-Fu Lee, Microsoft's v.p. of user-interface platforms, of tomorrow's wireless and handheld devices. Most of them will be too small to have a keyboard. "The only way you're ever going to get lots of data into small devices," says Dragon Systems founder Janet Baker, "is by talking...