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...film school. I don't have any technical training. The way I make films is the only way I know." But he knows his mad method works, in large measure because of two men who have been his closest collaborators on most of his films. William Chang, the editor, production designer and costume designer, is both the architect and the first critic of Wong's vision. Cinematographer Christopher Doyle matches the director's artistry and energy with a luscious camera style that sees beyond surfaces into essences. He takes ravishing pictures of troubled souls...
...tailor's apprentice named Zhang (Chang Chen) is called to the apartment of a notorious courtesan, Miss Hua (Gong Li, again). As he waits for his audience the sounds of lovemaking trouble and arouse him. Miss Hua, when she greets him, notices his excitement, orders him to remove his trousers and caresses him with her expert hand. It could be said that Hua is merely extending Zhang a professional courtesy. But she is also humiliating the young man?and, she must know, earning a new devotee with a sexual gesture that means little to her, everything...
Wannabe hostesses, take note: caterer to the rich and famous Serena Bass is publishing her first book, Serena, Food & Stories: Feeding Friends Every Hour of the Day (Stewart, Tabori & Chang; 210 pages), next month. Bass, whose clients include Ralph Lauren, Sarah Jessica Parker and Oscar de la Renta, provides more than 100 recipes (including Bass's favorite cheese-and-cherry blintzes), helpful tips and witty anecdotes. Now even the most anxious cook can throw a dinner party that dazzles. --BY BETSY KROLL
...laser beams at elements like gadolinium. The experiments weren't successful and the scientists decided to dismantle the equipment. But before they did, somebody suggested using the laser to enrich uranium?a process that produces the fuel for one type of nuclear bomb. "Scientists are full of curiosity," explains Chang In Soon, president of the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, where the experiment took place. "They're interested in this kind of thing...
...very surprised,” Chang said...