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...starring roles, Yeoh wed Dickson Poon, her patron at D&B Films, and, at 25, retired from acting. The marriage ended four years later, and Chan quickly offered her a part as his kick-butt co-star in Super Cop. In some later roles she got to play ultra-glam goddesses, her long hair caressed by a brisk wind even when she's indoors. Typically, though, she was cast as the superwoman who not only fights like a man but also is mistaken for one. "I don't treat myself like a woman," she tells a suitor in Butterfly & Sword...
After every Inaugural, the secretary of the Smithsonian asks each First Lady to donate something--not necessarily a dress, though it almost always is--to the collection. And ever since Jackie Kennedy (who set the modern glam standard), it seems the Republicans have been cleaning out their closets quicker, perhaps to make room for all those new cloth coats...
...begin to feel a little Norma Desmondish, and the Artist has been suffering from dwindling sales for almost a decade. Purple Rain (1984) sold 13 million copies; his last album, Chaos and Disorder (1996), didn't even sell 100,000. But this week the performer who defined '80s glam-pop and helped pioneer rock-funk fusion is attempting a comeback. Having extricated himself from his contract with Warner Bros. Records (a pact he so despised he started writing slave on his cheek), the Artist is releasing a triple CD titled Emancipation, the first in his new deal with EMI. While...
...Shakespeare. Well, there goes the youth market, out like the life in Claire Danes' and Leonardo DiCaprio's bodies at the end of the turbo-glam teen weepie, William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet...
...GLIDING THROUGH SLAM-glam media roles--senatorial wannabe in The Candidate, screenwriter in The Way We Were, hotshot reporter in All the President's Men--Robert Redford gave some people the idea that he had missed his true calling: anchorman! He had it all: the authority and irony, the requisite twinkle. That craggy charisma would have sat smartly behind a Formica desk. But then news imitated art: the networks created their own lower-wattage Redfords in Brokaw, Jennings, Stone Phillips. And now, when Redford finally gets into a TV-news movie, he's nearly 60, too old to begin...