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...women of the "Charlie's Angels" movie, which has earned $125 million since its November debut, might not seem to have kinship with "Crouching Tiger"'s stately stunners. This colorful jape propels Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu through its empty-calorie plot with the force of a hurricane blow-dryer. The stars giggle, wear swank togs, toss their coiffures in luxurious slo-mo. Diaz shakes her booty a lot. And skeptics may laugh their booty off when told that the Angels are icons of empowerment...
...With nearly all Chinese dissidents in jail or cowed into silence, their activism has passed to their families. In Beijing, Liu Jing and Zhang Hong, the sister and wife of jailed dissidents, issued a separate letter to the i.o.c. on Feb 15. The two had met in August 1999 through their lawyer. Both were enraged by the treatment meted out to their loved ones. Zhang, a retired shop clerk, saw her husband Jiang Qisheng jailed for four years when he urged Beijing residents to light candles in their windows to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre. Liu says...
...When news of their letter hit the international press, police summoned Liu and warned her to avoid further publicity if she didn't want her brother's life to get worse. Last week during the visit of U.N. High Commissioner of Human Rights Mary Robinson to Beijing, both Liu and Zhang were kept under close police scrutiny. Plain clothes cops wielding video cameras even followed them to the park where they often meet to chat during their morning exercises. Fearful of what the police might do, Liu didn't dare talk to her friend. She met Zhang's worried gaze...
...tried to secure a judicial order to halt demolition. But under pressure from the city government, the court allowed the wrecking balls to continue swinging. "Today, everyone's so concerned with making money that we think it's fine to tear down historic buildings for a quick payout," says Liu Bingkun, a lecturer at the China State Academy of Fine Arts. "But if we lose our history, what are we left with...
Cheung-yan Yuen, the action choreographer for Charlie's Angels, made kung-fu fighters out of Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu. Corey Yuen (no relation) put Jet Li through a black-and-blue workout in the box-office hit Romeo Must Die. And who supervised the buoyant action scenes in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?the pursuit by Michelle Yeoh of Zhang Ziyi across a courtyard and over rooftops; the same antagonists' fierce swordfight; the balletic battle of Zhang and Chow Yun-fat on bamboo treetops?that lifted Ang Lee's Mandarin drama out of the art houses...