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...actor, he is terrifically versatile, at ease in art films (as Farewell My Concubine's conflicted gay opera star), action thrillers (as the sensitive young cop in A Better Tomorrow), fantasies (as Brigitte Lin's mountaintop lover in The Bride with White Hair), dark romances (as the haunted singer in The Phantom Lover) and fluffy comedies (as the music mogul in He's a Woman, She's a Man). Last year he played a psycho killer in Double...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forever Leslie | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...works chosen for floral interpretation included such museums stars as John Singer Sargent’s “The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit” and Paul Gauguin’s “Women and a White Horse,” but also lesser-known works such as a small ancient Greek “Head of Aphrodite” from the 4th century B.C. and a delicate gold Indonesian crown from the 13th century. Although using furniture as the basis for floral interpretation might seem difficult, a surprising number of arrangements dealt with cabinets, chairs, silverware...

Author: By Maria-helene V. Wagenberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: April Showers Bring MFA Flowers | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

...horribly awry”) or anything else. Apparently they made a movie as well. Maybe that would help. “Let’s do everything for the first time forever” is comically sweet and less contrived, but still lacks a convincing melody. Nor is the singer particularly engaging, which was always what redeemed The Beatles in their weirdness, and may have done the same for some of Of Montreal’s earlier material. Coquelicot is not bad, but you might be hard put to find a reason to listen to it more than once. Maybe...

Author: By Andrew D. Goulet, Andrew R. Iliff, and Daniel M. Raper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: New Albums | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

...foreign film industry the Japanese controlled was China's, and among its top stars was Li Xianglan, born Yoshiko Yamaguchi. Moviegoers thought her Chinese, and in wartime films she became one of the most popular actresses, as well as a popular singer. Faced with postwar treason charges and possible execution, she revealed her Japanese ancestry and was deported. But Yamaguchi's charisma soon overcame her "crimes." In the '50s she made films in Hong Kong (Bu Wancang's The Unforgettable Night) and the U.S. (King Vidor's Japanese War Bride and Samuel Fuller's House of Bamboo) as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geishas & Godzillas | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...chance to get on the musical merry-go-round watched it stop for just long enough to jump on. We were a band before we could play and formed our band around an idea of friendship and shared spirit. That was a preposterous notion before the Ramones. --Bono, lead singer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eulogy: JOEY RAMONE | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

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