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...Karen Mok comes at you in sections. It's partly a result of her gallimaufry of genes: Chinese, Welsh, German, Persian, a heady hereditary cocktail. She looks and speaks Chinese, but when she palavers in English, out pours E.M. Forster starchy Brit-speak. She does "yah," she does "-ish" and she'll use the word 'prat' or 'ponce' with intuitive aplomb. Not to mention the bodywork: Mok's put together like an E-type Jaguar, curvaceous, sinuous, pantheresque. She's got legs Lara Croft wouldn't mind and a brain Angelina Jolie wouldn't recognize...
...North Korea's recent offer to restart stalled talks might mean one more chance to end half a century of hostility on the peninsula?and give Kim an opportunity to salvage his presidency. But he'll have to shore up his home base first. Even in Mok'po, the port city in Cholla where he got his political start, he is no longer a hero. Just ask Ko Seong Ju. More than 50 years ago, Ko worked the printing press for a local newspaper that Kim was running. Kim once gave him a ride along the beach in a jeep...
...Though Cheung has directed an hour-long music drama and an all-star anti-smoking film, he will keep acting; he soon joins Anita Mui and Karen Mok in a Stanley Kwan film, and hopes to work with Zhang Yimou and the Crouching Tiger princess, Zhang Ziyi. Still, forever-young Leslie is having midlife doubts about his standing in post-'97 Hong Kong. "I've worked bloody hard for 20 years," he says passionately. "I was penniless, dying hard for my groceries. I can now live in a reasonably sized detached house. I'm still very strong in Japan...
...despised offspring now control an estimated 60% of the entertainment industry. And in Hong Kong, where the local movie business is in a slump, the one great hope isn't white at all, but a mix of white and yellow. Fetching young Eurasian actors like Maggie Q and Karen Mok crowd the screen, and through the wonders of global distribution (and video piracy) appear everywhere from the deserts of Tunisia to the shores of the Solomon Islands. "Who better to personify the diversification of Hong Kong movies than a Eurasian actor," says Bey Logan, a local film executive...
...offspring of American soldiers in Southeast Asia. In Thailand, luk kreung were not allowed to become citizens until the early 1990s. In Hong Kong, many Eurasians have two names and shift their personalities to fit the color of the crowd in which they're mixing. Singer and actress Karen Mok, for example, grew up Karen Morris but used her Chinese name when she broke into the Canto-pop scene. "My Eurasian ancestors carried a lot of shame because they weren't one or the other," says Chinese-English performance artist Veronica Needa, whose play Face explores interracial issues. "Much...