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...addition to the offerings of Time.com highlighted in the column at left, upcoming episodes of CNN's World Beat will explore topics related to this issue, as will CNN's Showbiz on the Road. Also, AOL members can enjoy special features related to our stories. Meanwhile, all of us who worked on this issue are acquiring the CDs of our favorite discoveries, from Nigeria's Femi Kuti to the Icelandic band Sigur Ros. Online, on TV and in our pages, we're sure you'll make some exciting discoveries of your...
...veritable Hollywood script: beautiful actress goes from porn, to B-grade films all the way to the respectable big time. But Shu Qi isn't buying it, at least not yet. For the privilege of making it in showbiz, for the privilege of being blessed with drop-dead looks and boundless energy, she has been paying her dues for too long. Though she made just two soft-core sex movies, porn doesn't want to give her up: sex, or at least the tug of it in a character, defines nearly all of the roles she has played. She wants...
...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...
...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...