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...hard to tell what looks worse at the start of Hollywood Hong Kong: the blanched, blood-flecked, bloated pig carcasses hanging in Chu's Barbecue Shop, or the blanched, blood-flecked, bloated Mr. Chu (Glen Chin) and his obese sons Ming (Ho Sai-man) and Tiny (Leung Sze-ping). Perhaps the pigs, in a toss-up. They are dead. The Chus look only halfway there...
...feat for an ingenue, and except for Zhou and Glen Chin, all the film's actors are amateurs Chan plucked from the street. Despite the director's deft touch with comic characters, not all manage watchable performances. Chin's gruff, soulful Chu is a match for Tong Tong, and Leung earns kudos as the least annoying fat kid in recent Chinese cinema. But Ho's Ming does little more than sweat. Wong's manic energy nicely counters the Chus' torpor, but his strangled-cat tone deserves an even worse punishment than the film finally delivers...
...taking diuretics without being aware of it," says Dr. Lee. "They lose water and with it, potassium and other vital body-regulating electrolytes." Reduced potassium can cause an irregular heartbeat, even coma. "What can be O.K. for a month can cause serious damage over the long term," says Professor Leung Ping-chung, chairman of the Institute of Chinese Medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He performed a recent study of 15 diet pills available in Hong Kong and found the packaging of only one mentioned potential long-term side effects...
...country course. On the art side: Yee Chih-yen's Blue Gate Crossing, a teen courtship fable with a lovely, troubled mood. On the pop side: Chen Kuo-fu's Double Vision, an enjoyable, disposable serial-killer thriller with stars from the U.S. (David Morse) and Hong Kong (Tony Leung). It's been made before, too many times...
...Mood for Love So many affairs are like the one endured here by Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung: furtive, guilty, leaving the ache of remorse. Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai keeps the camera close to his actors - so close you can feel their heat and pain. Everyone is gorgeous and grieving in this threnody to erotic loss...