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...that some of the city's restaurants are "worth a special journey," after all. Michelin this week unveiled its first New York City guide, rating 507 restaurants and 50 hotels, and sparking one of the more intriguing Franco-American rivalries in years. It pits the tastes of the Michelin Inspecteur, dining alone and pronouncing his verdict in secret, against the democratic verdict in Zagat, the everyman guide whose ratings are based on survey responses from thousands of diners. "We're not going to replace Zagat," says Jean-Luc Naret, director of the Michelin guides. "We came here with...
...bale of laundry and (ouch) an iron. Gasp as he kicks a billiard ball out of an end pocket, then swats it, cricket-bat-style, into a villain's cranium. See him use a desk drawer as a truncheon. He sneaks past a sentry's guardhouse outside the evil inspecteur's police station and, just to show he can, he rams his foot through his guardhouse door, neatly kicking the sentry in the groin. Inside, he chances upon 20 martial-arts students armed with clubs. Not a problem: he levels five of them with five quicker-than-the-eye maneuvers...
...Hong Kong and other Asian outposts next week, is Li's surprising detour de France. It imagines that Liujian (Li), a detective from the PRC, has come to Paris to track down some very bad folks. He soon learns that the worst baddies are in the Paris police force. Inspecteur Richard (TchEky Karyo)?who kills for profit, for revenge and, sometimes, just for fun?frames Liujian for murder, then realizes that his patsy has a copy of a videotape showing whodunit. Liujian hooks up with an American, Jessica (Bridget Fonda), whom Richard has forced into prostitution and drug addiction...
...Still, Dragon does have a strong kinship to Asian melodramas. The sinister inspecteur is in the '90s Hong Kong movie tradition of Danny Lee's defective detectives and Anthony Wong's beastly cops. Li uses chopsticks as surgical probes (martial-arts stars have done that for decades) and hurtles away from a gigantic fiery explosion (the capper to many a scene in Ringo Lam's heroic-bloodshed films). Li went to a new continent but is up to the same old mischief. He's like the American who goes to Paris and dines at McDonald...
...managing director today remains very much the inspecteur. Quick-tempered, he dresses down ineffectual staffers during conferences. Says a foreign finance official: "When he is with three or four aides, he does 95% of the talking...