Word: yun
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...after "Chocolat" and "Dancer in the Dark" are forgotten. Oh, sorry, they already are. But we were happy to see a handsome Asian contingent, including presenters Michelle Yeoh (come on, Hollywood, find a juicy role for this accomplished ravisher) and her "Crouching Tiger" co-star, the suavely unintelligible Chow Yun-fat. And to hear Peter Pau, Cinematography winner, zip through 37 names, most of them Chinese, in a 50- second acceptance speech...
...directs a timeless fable that takes place in Detroit in the years of the Yankee dynasty. The disappearance of a magical bat, symbolic of the Tigers' ability to hit in previous years, accompanies skyrocketing salaries in Major League Baseball. Chow Yun Fat masterfully portrays the part of Bud Selig, the baseball commissioner who is unable to use the sweeping powers the owners granted him to remedy the salary situation...
...blue workout in the box-office hit Romeo Must Die. And who supervised the buoyant action scenes in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?the pursuit by Michelle Yeoh of Zhang Ziyi across a courtyard and over rooftops; the same antagonists' fierce swordfight; the balletic battle of Zhang and Chow Yun-fat on bamboo treetops?that lifted Ang Lee's Mandarin drama out of the art houses to become the top-grossing foreign-language film in U.S. history? Why, that ballistic Balanchine, that kung-fu Fosse, that martial master?Yuen Wo-ping...
...Emotional and Dramatic': Michelle Yeoh is no stranger to action-packed films, but the going was tough in Ang Lee's surefire hit ? 'I Thought I Was Going to Have a Stroke': Exclusive Web-only interview with Crouching Tiger director Ang Lee ? 'Speaking Mandarin Was Like Speaking Shakespeare': Chow Yun-fat on martial arts, Hollywood and mastering another language...
...Yun-fat is a talented guy, but his action movies didn't have audiences remembering him. Perhaps that's because he's an actor first; he didn't start off doing martial arts, unlike Jackie Chan and myself. I still don't know how an Asian actor breaks into Hollywood. If the market needs you, you go there. If they don't, you pack your bags...