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...Asian Madonna; of complications from cervical cancer; in Hong Kong. She sold more than 10 million albums and was a charismatic actress in Hong Kong films, notably as a ghost lover in Rouge, as a Japanese spy in Kawashima Yoshiko and as Tung the Wonder Woman in The Heroic Trio...
Democracy's heroes don't always make heroic Presidents. Lech Walesa toppled Polish communism in the 1980s, but presided over a mediocre government in the 1990s. Many fear the same will be true of Mexican President Vicente Fox. Riding a wave of hope and optimism in 2000, Fox defeated the dictatorial Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which had ruled Mexico since 1929. But since then, he's faced mostly legislative defeats and diminished stature. It wasn't until last week, when George W. Bush finally proposed the U.S. immigration reforms that Fox has long urged, that Fox got to savor...
...Yuen Biao. She played the double role of a (male) emperor and his ancient (male) ancestor in Wu Yen. She graced three Jackie Chan films (playing his stepmom in Drunken Master II) and four with Stephen Chow. Her finest fantasy role was as Tung the Wonder Woman in The Heroic Trio and Executioners, in which she joins forces with Maggie Cheung and Michelle Yeoh to save the world. Even in this comic-book chaos, she has an iconic Mui moment: she hears that a child has died, and a teardrop falls from her eye to trickle down her super-heroine...
...acting is full of satisfactions and surprises. Law has movie-star musk and the craft to fill his peasant garb with a heroic sensitivity. Kidman seems uncomfortable early on, but she takes strength from Ada's plight and grows steadily, literally luminous. Her sculptural pallor gives way to warm radiance in the firelight. Portman lends a tender ferocity to the widow aching for the presence--the memory, really--of a good man's body next to hers. As for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar, voting is now officially closed; Zellweger should take it by acclamation...
Meacham's study is a close-focus historical tracking shot of the two men, very human, heroic and imperfect, moving along through--and making--great history. --By Lance Morrow