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...grandest performance. But it was Wong Kar-wai who illuminated the inner Leslie on the big screen. Days of Being Wild made him a '60s Ah Fei (shiftless youth) whose mistreating of women is his payback to the mother who deserted him; it won Cheung a Hong Kong Film Award for best actor. In Ashes of Time, cast as a martial-arts scoundrel, he ably anchored a film of top Chinese stars and rapturous visual splendor. In the not-so-gay drama Happy Together he taught Tony Leung Chiu-wai how an actor prepares...
...Tilghman was awarded Princeton's President's Award for Distinguished Teaching...
...entrance into a formal writing program, it does allow students to work one-on-one with a distinguished author as well as get a book-length work finished, and polished, before graduating from college. In fact, several recent graduates of the program have gone on to publish or win awards for writing which developed out of their creative theses, including recent O. Henry award recipient Murad Kalam ’95, and published novelist Judy Budnitz...
...latest science fiction/comedy film, Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman once again deals with a team of individuals fighting the big, scary, and slimy. However, this group, consisting of X Files' David Duchovny, Dude, Where's My Car's Seann William Scott, 7 Up's spokesman Orlando Jones, and Academy Award nominated Julianne Moore, does not battle ghosts and ghouls. Rather, this fantastic four battles the creatures of our evolutionary past after a meteor's collision with Earth sets off a repeat of the world's four-billion year evolutionary period in the duration of a month. Respective...
...director of over 30 films, has kept information on his latest film, in this case The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, under wraps. The comedy takes place in New York in the 1940s, and has Woody Allen playing the lead, C.W. Briggs, an insurance investigator. Conflict arises when Academy Award winner Helen Hunt, playing an efficiency expert, is hired to evaluate and improve Briggs' place of business. However, since the film is categorized as a romantic comedy, it may be assumed that their relationship does not remain solely antagonistic. Dan Aykroyd stars as Briggs' boss, who, following the theft...