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Charlie's Angels Full Throttle offers a much more primitive form of female empowerment: pretty women kicking butt. It requires three to deliver what Witherspoon gives us in one perky package. Cameron Diaz does ditsy perpetual adolescence; Lucy Liu plays a sober, focused grownup; and Drew Barrymore, as befits one of the film's producers, has a backstory: once she was lost to addiction and male exploitation; now she's found both inner strength and martial artistry. All right, all right, you can't quite imagine Elle Woods ever being addicted to anything but high-end shopping...
...Rising, following the irresistibly silly antics of four bald men brandishing sabers as they parade through city streets and homes. Yang seems inspired by Mack Sennett, Monty Python and the Beatles in A Hard Day's Night. There are relatively few paintings or drawings on show. Liu Xiaodong paints scenes of daily life with thick, vigorous brush strokes in a Westernized style he calls "cynical realism"; his Through the Ages Heroes Have Come From the Young depicts a gritty street corner with two young men facing a group of three young women on bikes, all five dressed in school-uniform...
...Such shakedowns appear to be common. Outside the gates of the Changping C.-and-R. center on the outskirts of Beijing, Liu Yan is standing in the rain hoping for news of his 28-year-old daughter who came south from the northeastern province of Heilongjiang to work in a knitting factory. He lost touch with her more than a month ago, but it's been only a week since he received a phone call from a center employee telling him his daughter had been picked up and that he must come to Beijing and pay $600?more than double...
...Liu Xiaoqing Detained for tax fraud, the former movie star is now doing time in a detention center...
...CHARGED. LIU TAI-YING, 67, former Kuomintang treasurer; with perjury, graft, insider trading, and other offenses relating to several financial scandals; in Taipei. Liu, chairman of China Development Financial Holding Corp., was one of the most powerful figures in Taiwan's former ruling party during the 1990s. If convicted, he faces up to 16 years in jail. Liu's indictment is being taken as evidence that President Chen Shui-bian's administration is serious about its pledge to crack down on corruption...