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...Interview: Nicholas Tse...
...core-sex actress with a history of bizarre and violent behavior. A week after her death, photos of her corpse were in the papers; her mother said, ?I feel as if my heart was sliced with a knife.? Then there was the October conviction of popster bad-boy Nicholas Tse - the son of 60s stud Patrick Tse and actress-temptress Deborah (?Hong Kong Emmanuelle?) Li - on charges of ?conspiracy to pervert the course of justice? by leaving the scene of a car crash and having his chauffeur take the rap. Photographers cut through dense foliage to snap Tse...
...Tse had the pedigree for the baddest of Bad Boys. His father is Canto-popinjay Patrick Tse-yin, prime dude of '60s cinema, who vaulted from "himbo"?male bimbo?roles in comedies and musicals to the haunted hero of the classic Story of a Discharged Prisoner (remade as A Better Tomorrow , with Chow Yun-fat in the Tse role). Nic's mother is Deborah Li, an actress in '70s soft-core sex films (Hong Kong Emmanuelle). They sent Nic to Canada to learn English when he was seven; he then attended a prep school in Arizona. His parents divorced...
...Like virtually every Hong Kong singer, Tse made films. In his debut, Young and Dangerous: The Prequel, he revealed a complex screen persona, seductive and lonely, under that peekaboo mop of hair. He impressed critics as a gangster's prot?g? in Metade Fumaca and as the tyro gunman in Tsui Hark's Time and Tide. They called him a natural?not the next Andy Lau but the one and only Nicholas Tse...
...more likely to be the subject of a Hong Kong crime movie than the star of one. While hundreds of his fans wept outside the court, Tse showed no emotion when the verdict was read: he was still playing the tough guy. His sentence, to be announced next week, can be no more than two years. One lawyer familiar with the case guesses that Tse will avoid hard time and be given community-service hours: "They might make him sing in old-lady homes...