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...this year’s Leonid meteor shower, many said, did not disappoint—despite Tuesday morning’s full moon and the vast ambient light over much of Cambridge?...
...concert at Shanghai's Hongkou Football Stadium, leaving F4's China fans afraid the band had gone the way of Falun Gong on the mainland. Officials say the band isn't banned, but the same doesn't go for their even more popular Taiwanese TV series Meteor Garden, in which the F4 boys play spoiled rich kids who drive BMWs, chase girls and engage in other non-socialist behavior. The Beijing Youth Daily complained that the series gave teen viewers "unrealistic ideas about relations between people and society"-which, one might think, is pretty much the point of television. Nevertheless...
...boys leapt into the limelight last April with the launch of the show Meteor Garden on Taiwan's Chinese Television System. Women of all ages gushed over the romantic tale of a poor girl hooking up with a member of a rich brat-bully pack at an ?lite Taipei high school. (Mainland Chinese authorities were less enamored, saying it misled young viewers; Beijing recently banned the show after a few episodes aired on some local television stations.) The TV plot was adapted from a Japanese manga comic called Hana Yori Dango (Men Are Better Than Flowers). Chai, a variety-show...
...show attracted the attention of Sony Music, which gave the band a three-album deal; the first, Meteor Rain, was released late last year. It was pop-fluff stuff, a sonic fusion of Japanese groups SMAP and Tokio. But Taiwan's teens had not had a local boy band to worship since Little Tigers disbanded a decade ago, and 400,000 copies of Meteor Rain flew off the shelves; it sold more than 1 million Asia-wide. That success was quickly replicated on the mainland, where bootleg copies of the show, album and merchandise hit the streets...
...However, this group, consisting of X Files' David Duchovny, Dude, Where's My Car's Seann William Scott, 7 Up's spokesman Orlando Jones, and Academy Award nominated Julianne Moore, does not battle ghosts and ghouls. Rather, this fantastic four battles the creatures of our evolutionary past after a meteor's collision with Earth sets off a repeat of the world's four-billion year evolutionary period in the duration of a month. Respective...