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...film, literally, than its predecessors. By day the sun shines through the tin roofs and sultry shacks of the Chus' shantytown in the New Territories, and by night a lunar white shines from the modern apartments of nearby Hollywood Plaza. That's where the enterprising, Shanghai girl Tong Tong (Zhou Xun) lives, dreaming of the real Hollywood, before she jolts the Chus into life, then sets them burning...
...movie is Zhou's first outside of mainland China, but her luscious portrayal of Tong Tong, a woman by turns wide-eyed and desperate, shanghais the show. That's no mean feat for an ingenue, and except for Zhou and Glen Chin, all the film's actors are amateurs Chan plucked from the street. Despite the director's deft touch with comic characters, not all manage watchable performances. Chin's gruff, soulful Chu is a match for Tong Tong, and Leung earns kudos as the least annoying fat kid in recent Chinese cinema. But Ho's Ming does little more...
...argument from Zhou Yuanyuan as she scrambles up one of the steeper reaches of the Great Wall on the outskirts of Beijing during a recent weekend. Decked out in $80 hiking boots and combat fatigues, Zhou and her boyfriend, co-owners of a real estate company, have turned to physically challenging day trips to stay fit. "Our business has been good, but our stress levels are high," says Zhou, 23. "We've been eating too much and gaining weight. We find we must exercise?otherwise we just can't perform at work." The government is contributing to the cause...
...real name is Vic Zhou, and he is one of the four members of the Taiwanese acting-singing sensation F4 that is rapidly building an Asia-wide following. O.K., so the guys can't really act. Or sing. And they can barely dance. But they're a boy group, for chrisakes: Zhou, Vanness Wu, Jerry Yen and Ken Zhu are only required to have nice smiles, hot bodies and fantastic hair. These things they have in spades?and not a tattoo or pierced body part among them. In Taiwan, these squeaky clean little love boys are being held...
...Zhou's efforts?by midday 20 prospective clients are waiting in his sitting room?have left him exhausted, bad-tempered and $25,000 in debt from handouts and unpaid fees. "Places like Shenzhen are built on sweatshops," he growls. "Old machinery, no training, 14 hours a day, 450 yuan ($56) a month, ineffective safeguards?that's the secret of China's economic 'miracle.' The government knows this. So the government protects the bosses and does not enforce the law." The result, he says, is a rising swell of anger directed at the government and the Communist Party. Lai Nilang...