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...LI'L) MISS MANNERS: Etiquette for the kids' table...
...Unlike the elegant prose of novelist Anchee Min's 1994 memoir Red Azalea (Min was similarly plucked from serfdom to join Madam Mao's cultural crusade), Li's straightforward narrative rarely delves into agonizing emotional battles, nor does Li use his experiences to comment on social and political issues. Mao's Last Dancer is nonetheless a moving story, and considering the books dedicated to Cultural Revolution horrors, it's heartening to read that someone was able to dance his way through...
...Popular Asian films, like their counterparts in North America, have a crucial movie element that is often lost in Cannes's worship of directors: star quality. Choi had already vaulted to celebrity in the Korean blockbusters Shiri and Failan. Jackie Chan, Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh and Jet Li were bulwarks of Hong Kong cinema, before they decamped to Hollywood. And in India, actors like Amitabh Bachchan are near-deities. (Alas, the delirious seductions of Bollywood musicals still elude the Cannes programmers?no Indian pop musical has been invited to compete for the Palme d'Or in nearly a half...
...proved that in her debut movie, The Road Home, directed by her mentor Zhang Yimou, before beguiling the world as the willful young heroine of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. At Cannes this year she was radiant in two fine films: 2046, where she managed to outshine longtime mesmerizers Gong Li and Faye Wong; and Zhang Yimou's own House of Flying Daggers, a follow-up to his martial-arts epic Hero...
...Li Tie, Phone Home Chinese cell-phone company Kejian paid $3.2 million to put its name on the jerseys of English Premier League club Everton through the 2003-04 season. Kejian doesn't sell products in Britain, but Chinese consumers love Everton's mainland-born midfielder Li Tie (below, left). For a New Year's Day game last year, 360 million Chinese watched Everton take on Manchester City, which boasts its own mainland star, defender Sun Jihai. Never before had so many people in one country watched a league soccer match...