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...That film, about a girl with the ability to contact spirits and see ghosts, has the imprimatur of Ann Hui, one of Hong Kong's few art-house directors. Its three-day box office opening in Hong Kong set an all-time record, eclipsing Ring, Hideo Nakata's horror flick. Meanwhile, Joan Chen, former-leading-lady-turned-auteur with Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl, is courting her for a script to be shot in China, based on Yan Geling's novel, The Lost Daughter of Happiness. And last week Shu Qi signed up with one of the region...
...think, the U.S. that finds letting go of the glorious memory of World War II most difficult. The U.S. lost hundreds of thousands of men in the fighting, but its folk memory of the horror is less hellish than that of other nations. Alone among the combatants, America's heartland was untouched. So no death camps, no Barbarossa. No Hiroshima, Dresden or Coventry. No postwar period searching for scraps of food and shelter, as the Germans and Japanese had to; no dark years of rationed austerity, like most of Western Europe suffered. The rest of the world, in other words...
...feels unsafe. She worries she is a danger to the local Chinese who are hiding her in their sparsely furnished apartment. Police have begun checking identity cards; in May, authorities posted a notice on her very door about illegal aliens. Before Park first came to China she had heard horror stories?probably Pyongyang propaganda?about Chinese arresting North Koreans, then draining their blood until they were dead. Unable to feed herself and her daughter, she came anyway. After a year, she crossed back to North Korea and was arrested when someone informed on her. Back in her hometown...
...million people worldwide are currently living with AIDS, and that most of them - particularly among the 25 million who live in sub-Saharan Africa - are doomed to die from the disease. But that doesn't necessarily make them more inclined to take the steps necessary to stop the horror...
...least be honest. When it comes to conditioning children's behavior with words, maybe that's the most a parent can wish for: to preserve his own integrity and pray that his child is duly impressed. If I didn't happen to know that horror stories breed at least as much curiosity as fear, and if I had more faith in bold commandments issued in the voice of Charlton Heston, I could imagine having that porch talk once, or maybe twice, and being done with it. Then I'd move directly to the punishment phase: "Is that beer on your...