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...actress Rene Liu about her 20:30:40 co-star, co-writer and director Sylvia Chang, and she exudes a sigh that's in equal parts admiration and exhaustion. "I think she's a model for all of us women, but she's too busy!" says Liu. "She's a mother, she's a producer, an agent, a star, singer, director, and an actress." Chang politely protests, flashing the sunrise smile that has lit up more than 80 films during her 30-year career: "There's always time for the things you want...
...Senior Sylvia Yang led the Radcliffe in the women’s lightweight division, finishing 15th—the fourth best collegiate finisher in the division. Sophomore Radcliffe lightweight Erica Mitchell and junior Kristin Hicks posted 20th and 29th place finishes, respectively...
...around the country like valentines in J. Lo's mailbox. The Matchmaking Institute, which offers the nation's first certification course for would-be Cupids, opened in October and is attracting students from as far away as Singapore. It helps that the modern-day yenta looks less like Sylvia Miles in Crossing Delancey and more like Alicia Silverstone in NBC's Miss Match: young, attractive and a long way from loserdom--just like her clients. Hey, even Paula Abdul is rumored to have met her boyfriend through a matchmaker...
...athleticism propelled him quickly up the show-biz ranks, winning him parts as an actor and, eventually, the chance to direct. He broke out as the director of 1982's Aces Go Places, a martial-arts spy spoof revolving around a diamond heist. Starring Karl Maka, Sam Hui and Sylvia Chang, the film was at the time the highest-grossing Hong Kong movie ever. (At today's ticket prices, Aces would have earned about $13 million, which is nearly double the take of Shaolin Soccer, the reigning Hong Kong box-office champ.) Still, that early success never went to Tsang...
...facts of Sylvia Plath's life are better known, but the story that lies behind them is no less mysterious. She met Ted Hughes at a party at Cambridge University in 1956. He was 25 and craggily handsome. She was 23, bright, pretty and vivacious--the word is hard to avoid with Plath. Both were aspiring poets. But Plath's gleaming American smile hid dark, ravenous appetites--for food, for fame, for love, for sex. It also hid gulfs of despair; three years earlier, she had attempted suicide...