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...Funeral, which stars China's Ge You (known for To Live), Hong Kong's Rosamund Kwan (Once Upon a Time in China) and Hollywood's gravel-voiced perennial Donald Sutherland. Backed by the might of Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, Big Shot will try to do a Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon without kung fu, swirling costumes or any of the standard chinoiserie?and on a measly $5 million budget...
...travel money on a mere chance at history. Maybe, if so inspired, they?ll take a shot at the pot in the PGA Tour event in Endicott, N.Y. The B.C. Open suffers the annual misfortune of being held simultaneous with the British Open, which means it will never have Tiger or Phil or Davis in fold. But it also means it gets a host of strong mid-level Yanks who realize that with cats like Tiger away, the mice can play...
...fine--but American? Lee, who was born and raised in Taiwan; who brings a very Mandarin delicacy to his subjects; who has shot most of his features in distant climes (Taipei for Pushing Hands and Eat Drink Man Woman, rural England for Sense and Sensibility, mainland China for Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon); who has never made a movie in Hollywood; and whose name, correctly put, is Lee Ang...That...
...culture while viewing it with an outsider's ironic acuity. Often his theme is a divided family, or a man estranged from his best instincts. Lee doesn't look for heroes or villains; he finds enough shades of courage and compromise in every heavy heart. Even Crouching Tiger is grounded in the ache of unexpressed, unattainable love. Then it explodes like a Chinese firecracker on the Fourth of July...
...million visitors. DIED. JACK LEMMON, 76, esteemed actor; in Los Angeles. Lemmon is perhaps most famous for his role as straight man Felix Unger opposite Walter Matthau in the film version of The Odd Couple, and his Oscar-winning portrayal of Harry Stoner, a corrupt businessman in Save the Tiger. SENTENCED. REHMAT SHAH AFRIDI, 55, editor and owner of the English-language Pakistani newspaper Frontier Post, to death for drug trafficking; in Islamabad. Reporters Sans Frontieres has denounced the verdict, saying it was "more for his critical coverage of Anti-Narcotics Force activities than for supposed drug trafficking." INVESTIGATION DROPPED...