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...NAMED. Lee Hsien Loong, 51, eldest son of Singapore's founding leader Lee Kuan Yew, to succeed Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong; in Singapore. Goh announced his successor, calling Lee "young and vigorous and in tune with the times." Goh said he would like his successor to have at least two years' experience as Prime Minister before facing a general election...
...come down from your world to mine," says a frustrated Hao-hao to his girlfriend Vicky. "That's why you don't understand my world." Don't blame the poor girl: nobody else gets it either, and that includes both Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien and, very likely, his audience. Hou has swapped his wonted rural palette for the urban hip of Taipei, but for all his efforts to capture the contemporary, Mambo feels mute...
...quite ready to do the victory dance, she may be the last skeptic. The woman whose face is known across Asia yet who still isn't quite a star is making it onto the A list. Millennium Mambo put Shu Qi under the tutelage of director Hou Hsiao-hsien, a serious cine-aficionado who almost single-handedly put Taiwanese art films on the global map. (The two plan to start work on another project later this year.) Mambo didn't unduly impress the critics or crowds at its opening at Cannes?everyone was hoping for a Crouching Tiger repeat...
...breakthrough finally came when Hou Hsiao-hsien cast her in Millennium Mambo as Vicky, a nightclub hostess torn between two men. Hou initially worried that Shu Qi wouldn't be daring enough, that she didn't have the artistic depth to push herself to explore the far range of emotional experiences. "My first impression was that she was completely overworked," says the director. "Hong Kong's film industry does not provide, like Hollywood, systematic help to provide a good acting environment to inspire professional works. A lot of actors and actresses in Taiwan and Hong Kong become weary...
...Beijing Rocks, which has pristine images provided by Peter Pau, displays dishy Hong Kong stars Daniel Wu and Shu Qi at their most engaging, but can't get much juice out of a rich-boy-kookie-girl showbiz fable. More disappointing was another Shu Qi effort, Hou Hsiao-hsien's Taiwanese Millenium Mambo. This sketch of a cranky, 10-year affair offers no insight into the psychology of pretty girls who love rotten guys; it was also visually meandering?cinematically stillborn...