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...action choreographer for Stephen Chow's anticipated Kung Fu Hustle, who suggested in 1974 that the little man try his hand as a stuntman. (The path from stuntman to industry bigwig is well-trodden in Hong Kong. Along with Hung, both Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan are among the actors who started by taking a few falls.) Tsang, whose father, Tsang Kai-wing, had been a professional footballer in Hong Kong, had himself played for Hong Kong's team at the Asian Youth Games in 1970. That athleticism propelled him quickly up the show-biz ranks, winning him parts...
...popular TV personality in Taiwan?ended in divorce after four years. "I liked hanging out with my friends too much," Tsang says of those days. "I was never home." (He currently lives with his second wife and their two grown sons, one of whom, Derek, is also an actor.) But the worst came on July 7, 2001, when he was brutally attacked outside a bar in Kowloon and rushed to hospital with three gashes to his head that required 29 stitches. Although 13 men were arrested in connection with the beating, including the chairman of a Hong Kong-based entertainment...
...Having already remade himself as a serious actor, Tsang is now planning his greatest makeover yet. "I want to be the next big boss of Hong Kong films," he says. "Then I could just call a distributor in Korea or Taiwan and say I have a new movie and they would take it without question." He has been founding production companies, such as Alan & Eric and UFO, since the late 1980s and most recently established an entertainment conglomerate called Star East Holdings Ltd., which last year produced the movies The Eye and Three as well as the TV drama...
...Bold Man and the Sea Russell Crowe is a strong person and a great actor because of his intensity and savantlike dedication to his characters [Nov. 24]. It was refreshing to read an article about him that was not sensationalized. The quirks of temperament in his personality are what you find in most people who are as dedicated to their work as he is. Although I like knowing a little about the person behind the actor, I have to agree with his statement about privacy: "I'll make movies, and you go to the cinema. Why can't we just...
...Crowe will eventually be seen as the pre-eminent actor of his era-surpassing Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Sean Penn and the rest. With Crowe, you see a conflicted cop, a sensitive gay plumber, a neo-Nazi, a fragile genius; with others, you see actors playing roles. I respect Crowe's tenacity in staying true to himself. Because he won't play the fame game, he has been assigned a persona: arrogant bad boy. Your story unfairly perpetuated that image, leaving out instances of Crowe's generosity, loyalty, humor and zest for life. Crowe is rugged, rebellious and tender...