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...They did?at least on television. She was cast as Little Swallow in the Chinese-Taiwanese serial, Princess Pearl. For the first of many times, she played a commoner who gets a makeover and reveals her true nobility. The series was a huge hit in China (there are peasants who still have the Princess poster in their homes) and with Chinese living in Europe and the U.S. Nothing in the series beguiled viewers so much as the almond-eyed girl in the title role...
...with the star-is-born recognition she got from Princess Pearl, Zhao had a rare lapse into self-approval: "The show had the highest ratings in the country. So I said very confidently to myself, 'in China I've already gone as far as I can go in television. It's time to try something new.'" Hong Kong was waiting for her, with featured roles in Andrew Lau's The Duel (as a spoiled princess) and Jeff Lau's Chinese Odyssey 2002 (this time her makeover was from mannish to femme...
...idea that because individual Americans died, 9/11--whether as image, event or political issue--is outside the public domain is absurd. By that logic, Franklin Roosevelt would have been prevented from invoking Pearl Harbor in his 1944 re-election campaign. In fact, he not only invoked it many times ("The American people are not panicked easily," he said in a White House radio address just five days before the election. "Pearl Harbor proved that") but visited Pearl in July 1944, at the very kickoff of his campaign...
...Depp did his blockbuster, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and earned Disney $305 million. His Captain Jack Sparrow didn't kiss or shoot anybody, and he kind of sashayed through most of the film, but Pirates proved that with the right material, Depp can be a huge multiplex draw. His long-suffering agent didn't want him to take the part. "He was pitched the movie without a script," recalls Jacobs. "They basically said, 'We're going to make a movie out of this theme...
...idea that because individual Americans died, 9/11 - whether as image, event or political issue - is outside the public domain is absurd. By that logic, Franklin Roosevelt would have been prevented from invoking Pearl Harbor in his 1944 re-election campaign. In fact, he not only invoked it many times ("The American people are not panicked easily," he said in a White House radio address just five days before the election. "Pearl Harbor proved that") but visited Pearl in July 1944, at the very kickoff of his campaign...