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...film director is the ultimate father figure, doling out responsibility, praise and censure. On Crouching Tiger, Lee, who secured his early fame with the so-called Father Knows Best trilogy (Pushing Hands, The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink Man Woman), was a father-teacher to Zhang the budding actress, to Yeoh the tentative Mandarin student, to Chow the man on the flying bamboo. And behind Lee was another family figure--the young Ang, mesmerized by tales of great fighters and images of impossible physical grace...
...October, he devastated his opponent with rapid-fire reflexes and a withering overhand left. He fights next in January; and before he gets too heavy for his weight class, he hopes to unify the junior welterweight title--something that might earn him a spot on Gleason's wall of fame, beside Muhammad Ali, Roberto Duran and a fighter known better for his acting chops, Tony Danza...
...chance before Dec. 12 (now a week away) to grab the spotlight's harsh glare, and possibly a place in the partisanship Hall of Fame. Republicans in favor of moving say the Constitution - "each state shall appoint, in such a manner as the legislature thereof directs, a slate of electors" - and federal law backs them up. They say Gore's backup plan is for no slate of Florida electors to go to Washington...
...measure of Jones' greatness is his generosity and skill as a duetist. Most often, he takes the harmony part - the most difficult, by the way - and never seeks to dominate. Being the star (in early 1963, he was at the peak of his early fame) he could easily have hogged the sessions, grabbed two out of the three verses. But no. These are real duets, not a lead singer with a backup...
...with the Beatles as they prepared for their upcoming American debut. Within a week of that momentous "Ed Sullivan" debut, British TV was showing a slapdash documentary of the Beatles on that landmark February 1964 visit. The instant documentary was shot by Albert and David Maysles (later to find fame with their Rolling Stones/Altamont documentary "Gimme Shelter." Lester saw it and instantly grasped its significance. If he could capture that crackling energy in a fictionalized form the film would have its heart. He elected for the vérité of black and white to reinforce the notion of reality...