Word: wais
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...says Michael DeGolyer, a professor at Baptist University. Hong Kong's former British rulers didn't want to provoke China; their pro-Beijing successors feel the same. So how do Hong Kong kids learn their history? "We expect teachers to discuss various issues when the students ask," says Wai Ngun Bau, the territory's curriculum officer?the same reply Japan has been handing out for decades...
...dozen or more shots of heady Chinese liquor, the lithe lady was clearly the winner. The next night, a galaxy of Hong Kong stars, including Jackie Chan, Samo Hung and Jet Li, flashed their smiles at the most congested soirEe in recent memory. When Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai sat for a Q&A about his career, one of the audience members asking questions was Faye Dunaway, still glamorous 34 years after Bonnie and Clyde. This Riviera fortnight always has enough stardust to dazzle the dourest soul...
...Cheung did smart star turns as the lovers of two beguiling specters in A Chinese Ghost Story and Rouge, and he would later earn international acclaim in Chen Kaige's Concubine?still his fullest, grandest performance. But it was Wong Kar-wai who illuminated the inner Leslie on the big screen. Days of Being Wild made him a '60s Ah Fei (shiftless youth) whose mistreating of women is his payback to the mother who deserted him; it won Cheung a Hong Kong Film Award for best actor. In Ashes of Time, cast as a martial-arts scoundrel, he ably anchored...
...first minutes of Wong Kar-wai's 1990 Days of Being Wild, Leslie Cheung strikes up a chat with Maggie Cheung. She's lovely and lonely; he's smoldering and supercool. Out of the blue, he purrs a boast to Maggie: "You'll see me in your dreams tonight." Next day he comes by again, and she brags that she didn't dream of him. "Of course," he replies with practiced confidence, "you couldn't sleep...
...chase--the simplest story line requiring the most sophisticated art craft. But instead of asking Jerry Bruckheimer for some car-crash outtakes, Fincher lured a U.N. of directorial talent: Hollywood's John Frankenheimer (Reindeer Games), Taiwan's Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Hong Kong's Wong Kar-wai (In the Mood for Love), Britain's Guy Ritchie (Snatch) and Mexico's Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Amores Perros). Frankenheimer's short, Ambush, premiered last week on bmwfilms.com The next two, Lee's and Wong's, will appear...