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...culminating in 16 Charlie Chan movies. When Oland died, in 1938, Missouri-born Sidney Toler was tabbed to replace him; he played the sleuth in 22 films, until his death in 1947. Wong had played Fu Manchu's daughter in 1931, but the following year, when MGM made The Mask of Fu Manchu, that role went to caucasian Myrna Loy, Katharine Hepburn, Walter Huston, Jerry Lewis, Alec Guinness, Shirley MacLaine all applied Oriental makeup for mainstream movies. It wasn't until the late 60s, when Americans were seeing East Asians on their TV screens every night, that Hollywood finally renounced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Anna May Win | 2/3/2005 | See Source »

...Golden Mountain: America. At war's end she was 40 - not as old as the Great Wall, but getting on. Age had thickened her features, and years of playing either stern villains or stalwart heroines had stripped animation from her face. Now it was an impassive mask, as if she were preparing for a Peking Opera version of a Samuel Beckett play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Anna May Win | 2/3/2005 | See Source »

Zeta-Jones is also a Oscar winner for her supporting role in “Chicago” in 2002. Her other feature films include “The Mask of Zorro,” “Traffic,” and “Ocean?...

Author: By Adam P. Schneider, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Zeta-Jones, Robbins Tapped for Pudding Pots | 2/3/2005 | See Source »

...Fujifilm sign out my hotel window at night. The next morning I could not even see the sign because of the pollution. At the Beijing 2008 Olympic Summer Games, the shot will not be of the runner crossing the finish line but the winner looking for an oxygen mask. Dave Roels Vancouver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 1/16/2005 | See Source »

...witnesses saw Ali emerge from his car wearing a ski mask and bludgeon Sullivan, his former classmate at Jefferson Medical College, for 15 seconds before fleeing the scene. Onlookers recorded the car’s license plate number, and he was arrested at his parents’ New Jersey residence the following morning. Police said they found the alleged murder weapon...

Author: By Daniel L. Wagner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alleged Murderer Can Stand Trial | 1/14/2005 | See Source »

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