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...against the New Morality--which is to say, the No Morality. He was the adman in Days of Wine and Roses, watching alcoholic fumes rise from the wreck of his career and marriage. In The Apartment and many pictures that followed (The Out-of-Towners, Save the Tiger, The China Syndrome, JFK), he played a businessman in danger of being betrayed by his own best instincts--the sad-clown face of America at the twilight of its imperial reign, the Organization Man whom the organization would crush. Lemmon in his maturity was Job with a white-collar...
...Save the Tiger," in which he played a dress manufacturer who lets his youthful ethics slip away, won him the Oscar for best actor of 1973. The project was rejected by studios until Paramount agreed to make it on a $1 million budget - Lemmon cut his salary to the Guild minimum of $165 a week to make the picture's ends meet...
...been trapped by her success?and by her adviser. Manfred Wong, the Hong Kong Svengali who discovered her and remains her manager, has seemingly never seen a script too poor or a commercial too cheesy to reject. Except, that is, for a little film called Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?something Shu Qi is still trying to live down...
...hsien, a serious cine-aficionado who almost single-handedly put Taiwanese art films on the global map. (The two plan to start work on another project later this year.) Mambo didn't unduly impress the critics or crowds at its opening at Cannes?everyone was hoping for a Crouching Tiger repeat?but Shu Qi's performance did. This film was essentially made for her, and her character carries the action. We see the spare, raw, brittle Shu Qi rather than the ditzy spray-on sex doll her earlier films tended to serve up. It's a psychological drama that charts...
...biggest wrench occurred in 1999, when Shu Qi went to the U.S. to talk with Taiwanese director Ang Lee. He was working on Crouching Tiger and wanted her in it. Shu Qi was Lee's initial choice for the role of Jen, the young beauty who steals the sword, the center of the kung fu epic's plot. "Physically, she's incredible," Lee enthused at the time. Shu Qi was on board?for eight weeks. Then manager Wong pulled her because he had committed her to a Japanese tea commercial for Coca-Cola. "She was supposed to shoot from April...