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...There's no mist in the 1983 Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, a science-fiction satire that shows the locals, warts and all, as greedy or desperate folks. Lovely Tian-zhen (Cherie Chung) can marry her rich beau if she can prove she's a virgin. Just before the medical exam, she is abducted by aliens and impregnated. Alex Cheung's parody of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Star Wars climaxes with a madcap battle between Darth Vader and a sleazy detective in drag. One lightsaber becomes a numchuk; another goes limp at a fatal moment ("Should...
...spirits from the mainland's glory days materialized in Toronto. Tian Zhuang-zhuang and Chen Kaige both made their international mark in 1993: Tian with The Blue Kite, Chen with Farewell My Concubine. Both films won festival prizes abroad; both were banned at home, and Tian was forbidden to make movies for seven years. His comeback film, Springtime in a Small Town, is a remake of a 1948 film by the Shanghai director Fei Mu. A young married couple lives in a kind of genteel torpor, broken by the arrival of the wife's ex-lover. More a still life...
...million Donations to Washington's National Zoo inspired by popular giant pandas Mei Xiang and Tian Tian...
...Numbers $22 million in donations to Washington, D.C.'s National Zoo were inspired by its popular giant pandas Mei Xiang and Tian Tian 1,100 giant pandas are left worldwide 22 hours of continuous surgery?by a team of more than 50 specialists in Los Angeles?were required to separate two one-year-old Siamese twins conjoined at the head $30 billion was granted to Brazil by the International Monetary Fund, the agency's largest single loan ever $3.3 billion in additional bogus accounting was uncovered by WorldCom's internal auditors last week, bringing the total to $7.1 billion...
...husband's coffin sits aboveground in a field behind the couple's home. Anonymous villagers began slipping notes under Li's door with stories of police corruption. Most common were complaints that police had taken money to release suspects. "Police arrest criminals like they're running a business," says Tian Liqing, a 66-year-old who has served as a People's Congress delegate for nearly 10 years and who recently joined Liang and Li's campaign to impeach the police chief. "They release them after they pay money...