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...Korea. He quelled hard-line rumbling when he took charge of retrieving the American spy-plane crew from China; Pentagon officials seeking retaliation were forced to withdraw their announcement that the U.S. would sever ties with the Chinese military. In the past month, Powell's advocacy has brought a gun-shy Administration to consider re-engaging in the Middle East, the toughest issue out there. He has been heard to complain to friends: "Do you know how much worse it would be without...
...answer?like most of this book's conclusions?is simple: it will be time for this hypothetical depositor to "stand in line with the millions of others at the withdrawal counters." When this happens Beijing "will have only two choices: to maintain public order at the point of the gun or print money fast." Of course, printing money would drown the Communist Party in the same hyperinflation flood tide in which the Nationalists foundered...
...like last summer, he produced and co-directed two hit movies. The first, in June, was the comedy Love on a Diet, a follow-up to his 2000 smash Needing You..., both starring Andy Lau and Sammi Cheng; it grossed a robust $5 million. Soon after, he opened the gun drama Fulltime Killer, with Lau as a preening, delirious assassin; so far, the film has taken in $3 million. With his creative partner, Wai Ka-fai, To runs Hong Kong's premier indie production company, Milkyway Image. And for two years he was COO of the film division of Charles...
...personal ones and back again. For a decade or so, he was just a bright face in the directorial crowd. He was brought in to save other men's movies, as in the hyper-violent The Big Heat, about a cop with projectile dysfunction (he can't fire his gun). To helmed sequels (Happy Ghost 3, Casino Raiders 2) and launched franchises (the Moment of Romance trilogy). Then three lucky things happened: he founded Milkyway to be in control of his films; he hooked up with Wai; and nearly all the big action directors left for the U.S. In this...
...believes murder is an art; after a kill he gestures, hand raised like a matador. What's inside that spray of flowers he's carrying? His mini-Uzi. What does he do in the middle of a lunch date? Run outside, don a Bill Clinton mask, and gun down a half-dozen rivals. And what does he does to the hand of a rival? Stick a fork in it. "I'm way bad!" he says in English. Bending all his crooner charm to create a psycho Nijinsky, Lau here is great...