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Arrested by Taiwanese coastal police last month while trying to sneak across from the Chinese mainland, Lu Jing had only one question: "Is Zai Zai in Kaohsiung?" And with that one simple query, the 22-year-old from Fujian province became the unofficial No. 1 F4...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Listen Too Closely | 4/15/2002 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Listen Too Closely | 4/15/2002 | See Source »

...some local television stations.) The TV plot was adapted from a Japanese manga comic called Hana Yori Dango (Men Are Better Than Flowers). Chai, a variety-show producer, handpicked the boys from an audition of 200 (minimum qualifications: good looks and a height of 1.8 m) and dubbed them F4, short for the "Flower Four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Listen Too Closely | 4/15/2002 | See Source »

...F4 is now on the fast track for boy bands everywhere: each member will have solo albums out, and movie contracts are ready to go. Collectively, they host a TV show, ABCDEF4, and are planning an Asian tour this fall. You have been warned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Listen Too Closely | 4/15/2002 | See Source »

Pretty soon, Deeper Blue is kicking butt. From F4 onward, its inexorable kingside march swallows one pawn after another, and Deep Blue resigns 18 moves later. The room erupts in applause. The same thought is on everyone's mind: the new program is better. The new program is a lot better. We're gonna crush Kasparov like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEEPER IN THOUGHT | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

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