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...Anthony Wong?s Wong Chi-hang, the demon butcher of Macau in ?The Untold Story,? might be seen as a figure of black comedy - a fiercer sibling of the woman in Roald Dahl?s 1953 story ?Lamb to the Slaughter.? In both tales the killer feeds the evidence to the police: in ?Lamb? the cops eat the the murder weapon; in ?Untold Story? they eat the corpse, which Wong has chopped into pieces and cooked into pork buns. Yet we know this is no comedy from the look on the actor?s face. It is a glower of implacable rage...
...Like Herman Yau?s ?Untold Story,? Billy Tang?s ?Dr. Lamb? is based on a true case. Southeast Asia can?t boast many serial killers; Wong Chi-hang may have been the only one in Macau history, and Lam Go-wan in Hong Kong?s. Both were remarkable for reasons other than their sociopathy: Wong evaded the police for nearly a decade, and Lam carried out his victims? dismembering and packaging in a cramped apartment he shared with a half-dozen family members. As in ?Untold Story,? Danny Lee (who gets co-director credits on both films) plays the tough...
...hundred tinted water glasses just weren’t as interesting as a dozen narrow metal-rimmed barrels to Lecturer on Education Wendy Richmond and the dancers of Snappy Dance Theater. After all, it’s rather difficult to hang a drinking glass from the ceiling and stand on it, as a Snappy dancer does atop a metal-rimmed barrel in the cover photograph for Overneath, a recently published photography book stemming from a six-month collaboration between Richmond and the Cambridge-based dance company...
...narrow metal-rimmed barrels. Richmond, Mason and the other Snappy dancers ultimately decided on the barrels—which were originally used in the textile industry to hold cotton—because, after all, the barrel is a more versatile instrument: you can stand on it, throw it, hang it from the ceiling, roll on it, or stick it on a head, leg or arm. Mason says the barrels “felt dirty, heavy, painful—but at the same time empowering. If you stand on them, you’re a lot taller. If you put them...
...Wasserstein, editor: I’ve got some tricks up my sleeve myself. Turns out there’s something called a...hang on, I wrote it down here somewhere...a doubles alley, on the sides of the court. It seems that if we’re playing doubles, It’s totally kosher to throw the ball there. Ol’ Lar’ won’t see that coming...