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...doubt an increase in aid will help the graduate program of the Math Department and will make it more competitive," said Yum-Tong Siu, chair of the Department of Mathematics...
...year ago, Hung would never have imagined that he would be appearing in prime time. Last March Terry Botwick, a programming executive at CBS, learned that veteran Hong Kong action director Stanley Tong was interested in developing a martial-arts show for American TV. That's something Botwick had wanted to do for a long time, and he and Tong proposed such a series to Leslie Moonves, the head of CBS Television. CBS has a new strategy of trying to appeal to young men, and Moonves liked the idea. He ordered up a pilot, collapsing the development process, which usually...
...first choice for the lead was Jackie Chan, but he preferred to keep making films like his current hit Rush Hour. So Tong and his partners suggested Hung, who as another huge Hong Kong star was a logical substitute. Hung took the part because he liked the character, who is tough, street-smart and wise. "In movies and television shows, there has never been a really good Chinese lead," Hung says. "So often the Chinese look like they are very scared and shy. I said I would try a new kind of character...
Last year Hung and his wife Mina, a former Miss Hong Kong, moved to Los Angeles, where Hung hoped to direct. He didn't intend to do any acting until Tong, with whom he had often worked, proposed Martial Law. Now Hung spends 12-hour days on the set, with the occasional game of golf as his only distraction. The show has two crews working at once, one shooting the dramatic sequences and the other shooting the action. The latter crew consists of Tong and several other veterans of the Hong Kong film industry. Hung helps stage the fights, performs...
...course, Hung's convex silhouette gives him personal appeal and makes his twirls and vaults all the more impressive. But he is also a fine actor, quietly funny and a little bit vulnerable. "We had to find somebody who is good in action and also has a heart," says Tong. They found him in Hung, America's least likely, most refreshing network star...