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...Director Wong Kar-wai is an art-house fave for his slo-mo studies of Hong Kong's lost souls. But the secret reason for the success of his avant-noir films is simple: he's the world's most romantic filmmaker. His iridescent images detail love's anguish and rapture. Great-looking women throw themselves at cool guys, and the men often step aside. Love, the playwright Terry Johnson wrote, is something you fall in. Wong's films make art out of that vertiginous feeling. They soar as their characters plummet...
...follow-up to Wong's In the Mood for Love, about the furtive affair of a journalist, Chow (Leung), and a woman (Maggie Cheung) living in the same boardinghouse. Now Chow, relocated to a hotel, has erotic adventures with a prostitute (Zhang Ziyi), a gambler (Gong Li), a vamp named Lulu (Carina Lau) and the hotel manager's beguiling daughter (Faye Wong), who is also a mysterious android in the science-fiction novel Chow is trying to write...
...experience the same thing," says Don Robinson, managing director of Hong Kong Disneyland. Disney may be catching China at just the right time: Chinese consumers want to connect with the global pop culture that poverty and communist dictate had long kept out of reach. The Chinese, says Kevin Wong, a tourism economist at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, "want to come to Disney because it is American. The foreignness is part of the appeal...
...Senior Writer George Church, who notes, "Though Deng is the very opposite of an ideologue, we did more pondering of ideology and philosophy than usual in such a story." Church drew on files by Peking Bureau Chief Richard Hornik and Reporter Jaime FlorCruz and Hong Kong Correspondent Bing Wong. Another important contributor was Washington Correspondent and former Peking Bureau Chief David Aikman, who interviewed specialists on China and Marxism...
...provided some image rehab for white-power politician Pauline Hanson, who danced on a stage rather than on the aspirations of Aborigines and immigrants. But ABC passed on the idea--"It's a hard sell on paper," admits executive producer Conrad Green--before producers persuaded reality-division head Andrea Wong to watch a tape with her staff. "I thought it was a big risk," she says. "But we couldn't take our eyes...