Word: hai
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...extremist groups responsible. Why? Because the U.S. is still seen as a bully. When the U.S. seizes a North Korean ship delivering missiles to Yemen, many Asians posit another act of American imperialism. "It looks like America is still trying to conquer the world," sighs Nguyen Son Hai, a 23-year-old engineering student in Hanoi...
...Sauron can use it to rule the world. Aragorn (played by Mortensen, who transforms himself before your eyes from brooding beefcake to full-blown movie star) embarks across the desolate plains of Middle-earth to salvage what's left of mankind. Arrayed against him is an armada of Uruk-hai, armor-clanking warriors who make Freddy Krueger look positively cuddly. The battle of Helm's Deep, a rather brief episode in Tolkien's book, becomes a battle for the survival of the human species and the breathtaking centerpiece of Jackson's film...
...Quiet American's central trio--an English reporter (Michael Caine), his Vietnamese mistress (Do Thi Hai Yen) and the young U.S. official (Brendan Fraser) who comes between them--represents the Europeans, Vietnamese and Americans who danced on a slippery geopolitical slope that led straight into the Big Muddy. But they are mainly three points on a triangle of love, lust and rancor in a land where emotion, no less than pan-national idealism, revs the heart rate and clouds the vision. Steal a man's woman or connive in a faraway nation's destiny at your peril. Bedfellows make strange...
...Today Yen is teaching ballet and is engaged to Hai. She is keen to act again. But if this Vietnamese Cinderella never does another film, she can always remember the day she traded her ballet slipper for a glass...
...hired an English tutor, memorized the entire script in phonetic English, took four screen tests and got the part. (Boyfriend Hai also won a role in the film, as the rebel leader General The.) She was aided by a top acting coach: two-time Oscar-winner Michael Caine. "As they were putting in the clapperboard," Caine says, "we would still be whispering to each other what we were going to do and how we were going to move ... The girl at the end of the movie was like a consummate film actress...