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...memoir with sportswriter Ric Bucher, Yao: A Life in Two Worlds, Houston Rockets center Yao Ming reflects on straddling two cultures...
...three years, undercover cop Yan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) has worked for Mob lord Sam (Eric Tsang). Sam's plant in the Hong Kong Triad Police Bureau is Ming (Andy Lau), whose commander, Wong (Anthony Wong), has been after Sam for most of his career. When the cops try to bust one of Sam's drug deals, both sides realize they are internally compromised. Yan and Ming must walk a fine line, getting information to their true bosses while hiding their own identities from their duped colleagues. Sometimes the only way to achieve that is by killing an ally...
...that weren't plot enough--and it's plenty--the script by Alan Mak and Felix Chong gives Ming a mystery-novelist wife (Sammi Cheng) and Yan a pretty shrink (Kelly Chen), an ex-girlfriend and a young daughter. At the center, though, is the wary dance of Yan and Ming, each man serving two masters, each character luring the viewer to sympathize with his charade and hope that somehow both can survive. Leung, who played the warrior-lover in Hero, and Lau, Hong Kong's top pop star and movie magnet, are terrific as smart men, ruthlessly loyal, feeling...
...achievement of that citizenship. There is no easy cosmopolitanism. Film studies allows you to discover precisely what the barriers are and exactly how they can be overcome. It challenges you to explore both what happens when the barriers fall away (the HFA’s upcoming visit by Tsai Ming-liang, for example) and what forms of greatness are possible because of them (in, say, the best Hollywood Westerns...
...show in Berkeley. I was kind of a con artist--small jobs, like getting in movies free--and I guess I was ready for a big job. While they were all looking at the photographs, I went to the next gallery, where the museum was installing scrolls from the Ming dynasty. The room was unguarded, and I slid an 8-ft. piece of Plexiglas out from its holders, removed the scroll and rolled it up. I then placed it in the sleeve of my Windbreaker and carried it out, kind of swinging it in a natural arm motion. I leaned...