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...this still magic? Or are we in performance-art territory here...
...rides the passion. "I always study the score carefully," says Lang Lang. "When I start to play, my mind remembers the theory, but my heart starts a journey. I straddle both the composer's world and my own. When I can successfully merge the two, that's when the magic happens." His goal: to use his fame to build a cultural bridge between East and West, playing Chinese music to Western audiences and vice versa. "The West is hungry now for Chinese culture - like the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with its music by Tan Dun," he says...
...Roberts have complained that they were unreasonably remade (not by Dangin) on magazine covers. "Postproduction capability should not be looked at as a voodoo practice," he insists. "It's been like this forever. The black-and-white photography of old Hollywood stars was extremely airbrushed." Call it voodoo or magic, we had him do a bit of it for this issue. He replaced the cover model's mouth with one from another picture of the same woman. Does she look too good to be true...
...dies). Recapturing the past is a theme here too: Ware writes a touching introduction about the death of his grandmother, details from which--his returning to visit her former home, for example--surface in the strips. Ware's eerie, nostalgic world is no Disneyland, but it's a magic kingdom nonetheless. --By James Poniewozik
...Chan has packed Heroic Duo with sophisticated weaponry, high-speed car chases and dizzying stunts, including one stomach-quivering sequence in which a character traverses two skyscrapers using a wobbly, metal stepladder. Noticeably absent are high-wire kung fu acrobatics; Chan, who first gained notoriety with kung fu fantasy Magic Crane, apparently no longer wants anything to do with Chinamen in robes?unless they're behind the wheel of a Ferrari Testarossa...