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...terrifying rapidity: last Friday, medical officials in Toronto announced that a woman named Kwan Sui-chu had died in the city on March 5, shortly after returning from Hong Kong, and that five of her relatives?who had not been to Hong Kong recently?were also ill. One, Chi Kwai Tse, died on March...
...Like Lan Kwai Fong in Hong Kong or Leicester Square in London, Beijing's Bar Street, Sanlitun Lu, in the northeast of the city is the place to start. To reach the trendiest spots, it is constant push and shove past row upon row of Westernized joints and miniskirted cigarette and beer girls. The narrow space between the sidewalk seating and lines of inching taxis in the street throngs with people, mostly Chinese, who have come to check out the foreigners at play. Drinks are pricey, music is loud and there is more than a hint of illicit...
...decade when Hollywood directors first traveled to distant climes, hoping to bring a foreign flavor to their pictures. Of the '50s' ten Oscar winners, five - "An American in Paris," "Around the World in Eighty Days," "The Bridge on the River Kwai," "Gigi" and "Ben-Hur" - were shot abroad. Remember too that Marilyn and Jayne weren't the only sex symbols crashing in the '50s; it was also the time of Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, Brigitte Bardot. And the movies' all-time entrancer, an Anglo-Dutch princess named Edda Kathleen van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston - Audrey Hepburn...
...romance is enough to make the movie a riveting watch, but not quite enough to make it a good one. Apart from the setting, this film is not original in any way, and will probably not go down in history with the likes of The Bridge on the River Kwai or Saving Private Ryan. In some ways, Enemy at the Gates takes some very American easy ways out. Killing innocent children is a cheap way to evoke pity and fear,and the way some of the characters speak out against communism, you would think the Cold War was still going...
Thirteen of a thousand faces: center, as Capt. Henry St. James (The Captain's Paradise, 1953). Clockwise from top left: Herbert Pocket (Great Expectations, 1946); Agatha d'Ascoyne (Kind Hearts and Coronets, 1949); Professor Marcus (The Ladykillers, 1955); Colonel Nicholson (The Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957) General Yevgraf Zhivago (Dr. Zhivago, 1965); Adolf Hitler (Hitler: The Last Ten Days, 1973); Professor Godbole (A Passage to India, 1984); Sigmund Freud (Lovesick, 1983); George Smiley (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, 1980); Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (Star Wars, 1977); King Charles I (Cromwell, 1970); Prince Feisal (Lawrence of Arabia...