Word: showbiz
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...lovers, straight or gay. Lan Yu outshone Mabel Cheung's Beijing Rocks, which has pristine images provided by Peter Pau, displays dishy Hong Kong stars Daniel Wu and Shu Qi at their most engaging, but can't get much juice out of a rich-boy-kookie-girl showbiz fable. More disappointing was another Shu Qi effort, Hou Hsiao-hsien's Taiwanese Millenium Mambo. This sketch of a cranky, 10-year affair offers no insight into the psychology of pretty girls who love rotten guys; it was also visually meandering?cinematically stillborn...
...Cheung is 44, and if he has changed at all during his half-life in the public eye, it is to become more wily in the lavishing and husbanding of his allure. He simultaneously seduces and withdraws, flirts and forbids. He is the most cunning, provocative tease in Asian showbiz...
...musical based on his 1968 movie opened three weeks ago to the sort of rapturous reviews (and frenzy for tickets) that even Rodgers & Hammerstein would have envied. I don?t want to be the one to rain on this party (heck, that?s my quote - "A gift from the showbiz Gods!" - outside the St. James theater), but maybe a few cautionary words are in order, to try to bring everyone down to earth...
...Battle of the Network Stars" route. What's more, given real stars' tight schedules and accustomedness to pampering, the danger is CBS would either have to water down the competition into a bogus vacation, or turn it into a "Hollywood Squares" full of the Bruce Vilanches of the showbiz world...
...limit!" Was there any locale that scared her? "No. There's no place on earth I haven't been." On a whim I asked her about her travels to China. "That's the one place I ain't been." Figuring that Eternity was perhaps her showbiz name, I inquired what her parents had called her and was told "Anthony." Closer inspection revealed this to be correct. I bade him good-bye - and wondered if the show might make the same mistake...