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Zhang Yimou is China's most celebrated director. His films Hero, Raise the Red Lantern and Ju Dou were all nominated for Best Foreign-Language Film Oscars. His latest project, House of Flying Daggers, is a big-budget martial-arts epic in which Andy Lau co-stars. Zhang, 52, spoke with TIME's Neil Gough at his editing studio in Beijing...
...Dartmouth he stretched the limits of homework, writing a "book report" of the Boston & Maine Railroad timetable as if it were a modern novel: "Chapter 18 is word for word exactly the same as Chapter 17, only it is run backwards." Ted joined the campus humor magazine, Jack-O-Lantern, where he became editor-in-chief, until removed as punishment for the drinking incident. (Prohibition was in force, not only making Ted's spree illegal but putting his father's brewery out of business...
...classmate recalling young Geisel said, "Everything Ted did seemed to be a surprise, especially to him." Who knew the source of his strange whimsy? One of his Jack-O-Lantern contributions was a news story on "the Zimkowitz annual baseball game" in the form of a box score: 19 Zimkowitzes in two columns of agate type. Nineteen, not 18: Yes. One family member had "batted for Zimkowitz in the ninth." There are also hints of Seuss creatures to come, like a two-legged elephant, with shoes. The chimerist in Ted responded to the elephant paradox: a creature that was both...
...work for Jack-O-Lantern was breezily collegiate, rarely sophomoric. As editor-in-chief he acknowledged with a third-person flourish that "He writes only for the extreme left wing of college student, for the man of social perversity." He composed a droll piece that literally translated French to English. (Everyone French student who thinks himself a wit tries that, but Geisel's was good.) He offered raffish etiquette tips: "a man should not sit down before a lady. It is, however, advisable to violate this rule if the lady expects to sit on his lap." He did lots...
...revive the American comic-book industry after World War II; in Mineola, N.Y. As a science-fiction literary agent in the 1940s, he sold an unknown Ray Bradbury's first stories. Later, as an editor at DC Comics, he revived such superheroes as the Flash and Green Lantern, and in the 1970s updated Superman, giving his alter ego, Clark Kent, a new job--as a TV reporter...