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...true that some of the women in this summer's dozen or so male action movies have a bit more to do; instead of twisting an ankle, they kick butt. In X2, Kelly Hu gets to strut her (and her stuntwomen's) stuff. "When I battle Wolverine," she says, "I'm not just sitting on the sidelines looking good. I'm out there taking action." In T3, Kristanna Loken plays a villain robot who's more than Schwarzenegger's match. Her role is nearly speechless, but her glower is eloquent. Besides, notes Loken, 23, "I don't think many women...
...this season's crop of action actresses know who's in charge: boys and men. Some relish their second-class status. Says Hu, who also co-starred in last year's The Scorpion King: "I get to be in a great blockbuster and bask in its success without having the responsibility if it fails." Others are happy for an early career push. "You have to get known, and in summer films you do get attention," says Elizabeth Banks, 29, who has the female lead (supporting Tobey Maguire and Jeff Bridges) in the horse opera Seabiscuit. For an actor, working beats...
Using a specific issue as pretext for a general protest is a classic Chinese political tactic. The 1989 protests that led to the Tiananmen massacre began with a memorial gathering for Hu Yaobang, the disgraced Chinese Communist Party General Secretary. Last week's huge march in Hong Kong against new antisubversion laws (known as Article 23) fit the pattern--with crowds estimated at 500,000, it was the largest pro-democracy protest in China since 1989--as does a rally planned for this week at the city's Legislative Council offices. "It's not just about Article 23," notes Allen...
...Last week, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee became the first Indian head of state to journey to Beijing since 1993. He met with President Hu Jintao and was invited to the Yuquanshan Mountain military compound by former President Jiang Zemin, who called him an "old friend...
...Viewpoint: The Real Hu Jintao...