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RAISE THE RED LANTERN. Under an arranged marriage, Songlian (Gong Li) enters the residential compound of a wealthy Chinese man. She becomes caught amidst the scheming of his other wives, who live in separate houses and vie constantly for their husband’s attention. The exquisite film, directed by Zhang Yimou (Hero), offers a bleak view of upper-class family life in 1920s China. Raise the Red Lantern screens Thursday, August...
...anyone in the Marvel-movie field reconcile yang and yin? In "The Hulk", Eric Bana deftly does. He's the strongman - a 6'3", lifeguard-handsome Aussie - who plays it nerdy and needy, a strapping scientist with a troubled little boy inside. Suddenly you notice that the lantern jaw has a weak chin, that this paragon is all too roilingly human. It's the engaging fallibility that marks Bana as more than just an element in a huge marketing campaign. Ang Lee's big green monster movie may not be a smash (it already has flies buzzing around...
Fans of Chinese film rejoice: Gong Li is back. Star of the mainland-Chinese classic Raise the Red Lantern, Gong Li took a break from acting to live as a housewife in Singapore for the past few years. But with the contemporary drama Zhou Yu's Train, she returns to the screen in a familiar role: the dreamy, ethereal beauty drowning in doomed love. Gong Li's sculpted cheekbones and anguished eyes are up to the task, but the self-conscious Zhou Yu's Train never quite manages to pull out of the station...
...doubtful that John Adams ever crossed then-University President Edward Holyoke, Class of 1705, during his time as a Harvard student. Scott further irritated Summers during the year by hanging a stuffed dummy made out of sweatpants, a sweatshirt and a jack-o’-lantern head out of his Straus window, in full view of the president’s office. Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 sent Scott and his roommates a letter asking them to remove it from the window...
...hill above the Ohio River, the Rankin house--where a defiant lantern hung each night as a beacon--became a fabled destination that fleeing slaves struggled and sometimes died trying to reach. One of them was a woman who dared to cross the melting ice of the Ohio with her 2-year-old after learning that her master planned to sell the child. Rankin's sons helped her along to the next safe town, whence she eventually made her way to Ontario. Though her name remains unknown, the woman's story, by way of Rankin, reached the ears of Harriet...