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...pandas the new penguins? Has animal adorability traded in its dinner jacket for two black eyes? The answer is yes, on the evidence of DreamWorks' latest ani-movie, Kung Fu Panda. Taking as its source the same Hong Kong martial-arts films that inspired Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the new picture provides a master coursed in cunning visual art and ultra-satisfying entertainment...
...supine position can take all morning. He has the doughy shape, the domineering amiability and, ultimately, the demented perseverance of an ursine Michael Moore. And Po's job is not to defeat mythical miscreants but to be a waiter in the village noodle shop run by his father (James Hong) - who happens to be a goose, but never mind...
...Canton, aka Snake Fist Fighter. In 1978, his breakthrough year, he made Snake and Crane Arts of Shaolin and Snake in Eagle's Shadow, and topped them off with Drunken Master, aka Drunken Monkey in the Tiger's Eye, aka Eagle Claw, Snake Fist, Cat's Paw, Part 2. (Hong Kong movies often had a different title for every East Asian country it played in.) As for the Furious Five, they are direct descendants of director Chang Cheh's Five Venoms movies of the same period, where the heroes were nicknamed Lizard, Centipede, Snake, Scorpion and Toad...
Since then, Manson conducted some of the finest orchestras in the world, including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, New York City Opera, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Stockholm’s Royal Opera, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic, among many others. In 1999, she became the music director of the Kansas City Symphony—one of only three women to have held such a position in a leading American symphony...
...cyclone's wake, the military is hampering the efforts of relief workers. Too bad Burma's resources are not as coveted as those of the Middle East. If they were, surely the U.S. and a coalition of other willing allies would have forced more comprehensive action. John Lee, Hong Kong...