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...Weezer’s frontman more of an assman? According to his thefacebook.com profile, Harvard undergrad-cum-rock star-cum-Harvard undergrad Rivers Cuomo is an officer of the group Harvard Ghetto Booties, currently holding the title of “bootie holly” (yuk yuk). The group’s first-year founder provided Gadfly with some, er, backstory...
...Last week's march in Hong Kong, galvanized in part by Wong Yuk-man's radio entreaties, never had the pretension of actually overthrowing a ruling government. In many ways, the protest was a ritualistic expression of futility, participants wearing black shirts that symbolized the funerary nature of their march. But somewhere along the way, the expected 100,000 protesters snowballed to at least five times that. Suddenly, the protest grew a vitality of its own that sparked a deep democratic longing that most Hong Kongers didn't even realize they held. Wong, the territory's Great Communicator, may have...
...Hong Kong's Victoria Park last week, they would stop for a moment to stare at the slight, unprepossessing individual. Only when he lifted a megaphone, broadcasting a familiar voice whose Gatling-gun delivery epitomizes the staccato clatter of the Cantonese dialect, were they sure. For this was Wong Yuk-man, the phenomenally popular talk-radio host who had used his bully pulpit to incite one of the world's most politically docile populaces into marching for its future. For weeks, Wong, also known by his English appellation Raymond Wong, had gone on air during...
...their broadcast freedom is nevertheless being threatened. Albert Cheng, a bespectacled society icon and radio host, decided last month to take indefinite leave from his ultra-popular talk show, "Teacup in a Storm," after the Broadcast Authority warned his radio station, Commercial Radio, about his on-air conduct. (Wong Yuk-man's program is carried by the same station.) The warning comes at a sensitive time, when the issue of the station's license?due for renewal next year?is still being addressed. The controversy centered on two shows this spring during which Cheng harangued government officials, calling one "doglike...
...caper with digital tricks that undermine Chan's amazing physical grace. Shu Qi, the Taiwan-born beguiler, has better luck with her English-language debut, The Transporter, a furious demolition derby produced by Besson and directed by Hong Kong action auteur Corey Yuen (Fong Sai-Yuk...