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...fogeys aren't going away. LVMH recently bought Pucci; the Gucci group is revamping Bottega Veneta; and no less venerable a jeweler than Asprey & Garrard has hired Jade Jagger (yep, Mick's daughter) and her partner as designers...
...area around Mae Sot in Thailand's wild west is a tense mix of Thai soldiers, Burmese rebels and smugglers of jade, gemstones, heroin and amphetamines. A boxer calling himself Thai may have been born in a Burmese refugee camp and speak the language of the Karen guerrillas or the Mon tribesmen over the frontier. Crowds flock from Burma for the fights, some crossing legally at the checkpoint but most just wade across the parched Moei river. In this town of mixed allegiances and sliding identities, boxing alone provides a little certainty?without exception, every match is Thailand vs. Burma...
...tests that bond. This film, though, is so saturated in the sad glamour of their love that style becomes substance. The moving camera, the gorgeous homes and gardens of Suzhou, the handsome people with complex urges?they all seem to swoon in the telling of a story about Jade (radiant Japanese star Rie Miyazawa), a Kunqu Opera singer who marries into a noble house and falls into a near-lesbian relationship with her new master's mannish cousin Rong (Joey Wong, the premier ghost diva of '80s Hong Kong cinema). They don't make their sexual affinity explicit; as Jade...
...Rong says, "I was captivated by Jade's fragrance, her opium, her singing," and the viewer is as well. Rong later has a heterosexual tryst (another hot turn by Daniel Wu), and Jade feels fatally betrayed. But Rong has never consummated her feeling for Jade; she just keeps dangerously near, within kissing distance. Jade can always feel the breath of Rong's erotic interest, and the air goes humid with promise. Yonfan's film is just as tantalizing, as delicately decadent, as Rong's hovering love. Seeing it is like getting high?on the opium smoke a beautiful woman exhales...
...usual, Woody Allen, screenwriter and director of over 30 films, has kept information on his latest film, in this case The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, under wraps. The comedy takes place in New York in the 1940s, and has Woody Allen playing the lead, C.W. Briggs, an insurance investigator. Conflict arises when Academy Award winner Helen Hunt, playing an efficiency expert, is hired to evaluate and improve Briggs' place of business. However, since the film is categorized as a romantic comedy, it may be assumed that their relationship does not remain solely antagonistic. Dan Aykroyd stars as Briggs' boss...