News Links - 12/1/06

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Poster for The Knot

Serbian festival pulls Chinese film Summer Palace after warning
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061129/en ... 1129192156

Joan Chen reveals what it takes to make it in hollywood
http://www.mmail.com.my/Current_News/mm ... index_html

Book explores Chinese cinema via interviews
http://taiwanjournal.nat.gov.tw/ct.asp? ... tem=23551#

Shaw keeps HK guessing
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_deta ... con_type=3

Lucy Liu as an illicit blood dealer in China
'3 Needles' injects toxic point of view
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainmen ... 0428c.html
With '3 Needles,' all is not well that means well
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living ... eans_well/
AIDS commentary is sharp in ‘Needles’
http://theedge.bostonherald.com/movieRe ... eid=169884

Curtains for foreign cinemas?
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China_Busi ... 2Cb02.html

BoA to Appear on CNN's Talk Asia
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2006/12/01/44@169439.htm

Actress Uses Web to Expose the 'Rule' of Sex-for-Roles
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2006/12/01/164@169554.htm

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Hong Kong director says Aaron Kwok wasn't first choice for award-winning movie
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/ ... Choice.php

HK singer Hacken Lee marries former Miss Hong Kong
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/art/2006/1 ... g_Kong.htm

'The Knot' well-crafted epic love story soured by bad casting
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/12/ ... e_Knot.php

Taiwan: Holo-language movies celebrate 50 years on screen
http://taiwanjournal.nat.gov.tw/ct.asp? ... Item=23548