Word: triads
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...fickle Canto-pop world. But at age 42, Lau is only just beginning to savor the challenges of his acting vocation. He is reshaping his career without the safely rounded edges of his leading-man persona, taking on riskier and more complex character roles such as the tightly wound triad spy he played in the hit Infernal Affairs trilogy. He'll even tackle subordinate parts if he thinks they are enough of a stretch. It's paying off. Last week, he won the Best Actor trophy at the 23rd Hong Kong Film Awards for his performance as a conflicted monk...
Moccari proved too much to handle in both the 200-meter butterfly and the 400-meter individual medley, heading Harvard’s sweep of the top three in each. In the butterfly, junior Ryan Smith and sophomore Bill Cocks rounded out the triad. Each won an event of his own, with Smith capturing the 100-meter butterfly and Cocks the 200-meter breaststroke...
...known as a tough cookie with even tougher pals. In 1992, a triad member who had slapped her was shot dead three days later. (No one was convicted of the crime, and Mui was not charged with complicity.) But she was famously generous, raising funds for a San Francisco nursing home and, last year, for the families of SARS victims...
...DIED. KO (BLACKY) SHOU-LIANG, 50, Taiwanese actor and stuntman famous for jumping across the Yellow River and the Great Wall on motorcycles and in cars; in Shanghai. A police spokeswoman said Ko, known for playing triad goons, may have died of an "alcohol-induced asthma attack" after attending three banquets, the Xinhua news agency reported...
...Fans of the first film might be surprised to see Leung co-starring in IA3 along with stalwart police chief Wong (Anthony Wong) and triad boss Sam (Eric Tsang), since all three were dead by the end of the original. But IA3 directors Andrew Lau and Alan Mak solve that potential casting problem by shifting the third film back and forth in time, a few months before the first IA and a few months after its end, when a seemingly free-and-clear Ming rejoins the cops. With Yan, Wong and Sam shimmering across the screen like walking phantoms...