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...complaint, filed in April and obtained by The Crimson through the Freedom of Information Act last month, cites as evidence a New York Times article from February 28, 1993, which reported on the College's increased efforts to woo Black students...
...complaint, filed in April and obtained by The Crimson through the Freedom of Information Act last month, cites as evidence a New York Times article from February 28, 1993, which reported on the College's increased efforts to woo Black students...
...Lantern, Ju Dou and other sumptuous dramas directed by Zhang Yimou and starring glorious Gong Li have helped make China a new force in world cinema. Check out Hard Target, as millions of teenage boys already have. The director of this martial-arts pummeler is Hong Kong's John Woo -- the first director from Chinese-language cinema to make a Hollywood picture. With its deft skullcrackery and its breathless chase scenes, Hard Target is The Kung- Fugitive...
...lives to make movies," says film critic David Chute, who produced the new laser-disc set of The Killer and observed Woo close up as unit publicist on Hard Target. "He's without ulterior motives, so the set was remarkably free of backbiting, infighting or ego fits." Woo was unfazed by Hard Target's $18.5 million price tag, about five times the size of his Hong Kong budgets. Still, there were adjustments. "In Hong Kong," notes Van Damme, "he's the Steven Spielberg of action movies, but in Los Angeles he's just the new guy in town." Raimi says...
Last year Woo moved to the San Fernando Valley with his wife and three children. Aside from filmmaking, Chute says, "the only things he's obsessed with are his family and his cooking." Woo may not have much time for Chinese cuisine: he is planning to direct Shadow War, a suspenser about cops and terrorists; and The Killer will be remade, with Richard Gere and Denzel Washington touted to play the assassin and his pursuer. For now, Woo says he is "quite happy with Hard Target." He is one tough guy -- tough enough to survive the M.P.A.A.'s baptism...