Word: kung
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...Arts Chair Emerita Michelle F. Kung can be reached at mkung@fas.harvard.edu...
...DeMille, Nicholas Ray, George Stevens. The Messiah has been portrayed with stolid reverence (in Franco Zeffirelli's Jesus of Nazareth) and Surrealist blasphemy (Luis Bunuel's L'Age d'Or). Often he sings: in Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar, in a born-again Bollywood musical and in the Canadian kung-fu horror comedy Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter...
...meant the unexpected. This time Galliano, Dior's designer, travelled to Asia, bringing back giant kimonos, hats that looked like ancient buildings, and two troupes of Chinese acrobats. The effect nearly made up for the show's two-hour delay. The audience gasped and clapped - and ducked when the kung fu troupe began swinging nunchakus. But to really see the clothes, the ladies who shop will also have to travel - to the Dior showroom where the delicate chiffon and silk dresses can be seen unencumbered by layers of brocade or acres of tulle. The clothes at Chanel are never mysterious...
...Kung...
...These tantalizing questions were hard to answer. For decades, Shaw's action classics have been seen, if at all, in muddy bootlegs that often chopped or squeezed the wide-screen panoramas down to TV shape and dubbed the Mandarin dialogue into an Anglicized cacophony of kung fu grunts and maniacal giggles. Most of the company's other films have not been seen at all; they have slept in the Shaw vaults, taken for dead. The studio's reputation decayed too; it was thought to be the stuffy monolith whose primacy was usurped in the '70s by the upstart Golden Harvest...