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...political peril. He was on the mainland to make Lan Yu and I, based on a gay novel published pseudonymously on the Internet. Kwan, a specialist in soft-focus romantic doom (Rouge, Red Rose, White Rose), filmed in secret and without official clearance. The story, about city-man Handong (Hu Jun) and country-boy Lan Yu (Lu Yue), could be a ripe pile of clichE if not handled deftly, but the clarity of Kwan's view gives the affair a somber tang. "You probably don't know it, but I love you," Handong says toward...
...argue and out-campaign his rival, whether that was opposing counsel or a KMT politician. His method was bluntly effective and essentially unchanged from his academic blueprint: work harder, better and longer and eventually you will persevere. "He's a workaholic. He just doesn't stop studying," says Hu Chung-hsin, a former adviser. Hu thinks it all traces back to Chen's poverty: "He's insecure about his past...
...Indeed, he has gone about as far as one can on brains and effort: all the way to the presidency. But to reach the next level, to become a great President, requires vision. And you can't find that in any textbooks. "What Chen lacks is emotional intelligence," says Hu, "he doesn't have that. How can you be a great leader without that kind of emotional center?" Chen says he is working on that, studying up on being emotionally intelligent just as he once crammed for trigonometry exams. "There are imperfections in my life. It's like a missing...
...Film Workshop, Tsui didn't cuddle or coddle his directors. He fired esteemed auteurs King Hu (A Touch of Zen) and Yim Ho (Homecoming) off their projects; Woo walked out after Tsui re-edited three of his films, including The Killer. "I was not a good producer," Tsui admits. "The roles of producer and director should be like coach and fighter: the coach has to tell the boxer he's strong on the left or the right, that his eye's weakening, that it's time to call it quits. Back then, I got frustrated. I never learned the difference...
...footed Beijing in other ways too. The U.N. High Commission on Human Rights meets in Geneva next week and the U.S. recently announced its intention to sponsor a resolution to censure China for its human rights record. The government is clearly worried by the women's actions: police detained Hu for eight hours in mid-January. Shan suffered much worse. She was sentenced without trial to two years re-education through labor for "disturbing social order...