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News Links - 8/20/08

Postby dleedlee » Wed Aug 20, 2008 1:24 pm

Sparrow opening on mainland
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http://ent.sina.com.cn/m/c/2008-08-20/09502140250.shtml
Kelly Lin
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http://ent.sina.com.cn/m/2008-08-20/15072140805.shtml
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http://ent.sina.com.cn/m/2008-08-20/13442140661.shtml

Dicky Cheung Has High Hopes For Tsui Siu-Ming's 'Duo Biao'
http://www.batgwa.com/story.php?id=1151

Jang Dong-Gun Joins Luc Besson's Sci-Fi Thriller
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2008/08/20/902s396459.htm

I spy: Lau Ching-Wan in a scene from new Johnnie To film 撕票
Lau plays a kidnapper
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http://ent.sina.com.cn/m/c/2008-08-20/08472140208.shtml
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http://www.worldjournal.com/wj-en-news. ... id=1762220

Charlene Choi focuses on charity work, going to Shanghai for new film
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http://ent.sina.com.hk/cgi-bin/news/sho ... 559&ct=pic


Ageless Angie Chiu attends HK preview for new movie Cyborg She / My Girlfriend is a Cyborg
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http://i1.sinaimg.cn/ent/s/h/p/2008-08- ... 051747.jpg
http://ent.sina.com.cn/s/h/p/2008-08-20 ... 0142.shtml


HK Version Still of Painted Skin Made Public
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2008/08/20/1781s396329.htm

Sammi Cheng Just Wants Happiness
http://i0.sinaimg.cn/ent/s/h/p/2008-08- ... 055556.jpg
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http://www.batgwa.com/story.php?id=1150
http://ent.sina.com.cn/s/h/p/2008-08-20 ... 0145.shtml

Eva Huang Shengyi at the Olympics
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http://i0.sinaimg.cn/ent/s/m/2008-08-20 ... 142448.jpg
http://i2.sinaimg.cn/ent/s/m/2008-08-20 ... 142448.jpg
http://ent.sina.com.cn/s/m/2008-08-20/14242140718.shtml

Andy Lau encourages Liu Xiang
http://asianfanatics.net/forum/Andy-enc ... 72436.html

"Super" Volunteer Li Yuchun
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2008/08/20/902s396359.htm

Games heroes set for Hong Kong
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_deta ... 80820&fc=4

Bridegroom Kenneth Fok's father gifts 100M RMB courtyard house to Guo Jingjing's parents
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http://ent.2008.sina.com.cn/s/m/p/2008- ... 0151.shtml

China's Olympic ceremony features sacrifices
Fainting, heat stroke and adult diapers
Zhang Yimou: Only North Korea could have done it better
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080819/ap_ ... nCUm9vaA8F
Propaganda on a mass scale at North Korean `games'
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080818/ap_ ... Q_ppkBxg8F

Publicity Department Moves In To Stop Criticisms Of Liu Xiang
http://www.zonaeuropa.com/200808b.brief.htm#041

Beijing Olympic opening ceremony guides stripped naked to qualify
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/others ... mpics.html

Perfect hostesses outclass sexy cheerleaders at Games
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/feedarticle/7732737

How the Olympic medals were made - slide show
http://shanghaiist.com/2008/08/20/how_t ... e_made.php
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Re: News Links - 8/20/08

Postby Brian Thibodeau » Wed Aug 20, 2008 3:06 pm

dleedlee wrote:China's Olympic ceremony features sacrifices
Fainting, heat stroke and adult diapers
Zhang Yimou: Only North Korea could have done it better
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080819/ap_ ... nCUm9vaA8F


Would the Chinese government really benefit from having one of their prized possessions compare them to North Korea in this day and age?

I always figured Zhang Yimou for a . . . rustic thinker, but this takes the cake. Makes me wonder if I've read some of his films the wrong way:

"North Korea is No. 1 in the world when it comes to uniformity. They are uniform beyond belief! These kind of traditional synchronized movements result in a sense of beauty. We Chinese are able to achieve this as well. Though hard training and strict discipline," he said. Pyongyang's annual mass games feature 100,000 people moving in lockstep.

Performers in the West by contrast need frequent breaks and cannot withstand criticism, Zhang said, citing his experience working on an opera performance abroad. Though he didn't mention specific productions, Zhang directed an opera at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 2006.

"In one week, we could only work four and a half days, we had to have coffee breaks twice a day, couldn't go into overtime and just a little discomfort was not allowed because of human rights," he said of the unidentified opera production.

"You could not criticize them either. They all belong to some organizations ... they have all kind of institutions, unions. We do not have that. We can work very hard, can withstand lots of bitterness. We can achieve in one week what they can achieve in one month."


Western weaklings and their coffee breaks! What gall. :lol: Wonder if the Met will invite him back now?




Beijing Olympic opening ceremony guides stripped naked to qualify
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/others ... mpics.html


This is a weird article, or maybe my browser isn't displaying it properly: there doesn't seem to be any reference to (or attributed source for) the "women being naked" in the body of the article, only the headline and subheading. Weird . . . :?


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Re: News Links - 8/20/08

Postby dleedlee » Wed Aug 20, 2008 3:24 pm

Brian Thibodeau wrote:
This is a weird article, or maybe my browser isn't displaying it properly: there doesn't seem to be any reference to (or attributed source for) the "women being naked" in the body of the article, only the headline and subheading. Weird . . . :?


Not sure where I read it first a few days ago. The link above was the first I could find in a retroactive search. Here's a few more detailed reports.

http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/china/girls ... -2813.html

http://bangkokpost.com/topstories/topst ... ?id=129662
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Postby Brian Thibodeau » Wed Aug 20, 2008 4:31 pm

Thanks for those. They should help me to convince the organizers of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics that they will need to hire me for a similar screening process. I offered my services in 1988, but they just wouldn't listen. . .
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Postby dleedlee » Wed Aug 20, 2008 6:56 pm

Search is on for 3 good Samaritans at opening ceremony
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http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/olympics/2 ... 934503.htm
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Postby ewaffle » Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:02 am



Based on the four pictures in the article it seems that Eva Huang Shengyi has one all-purpose head tilt and smile when photographed in public. She should work on another one.


Publicity Department Moves In To Stop Criticisms Of Liu Xiang
http://www.zonaeuropa.com/200808b.brief.htm#041


The long article from sina.com immediately below the short linked article at first glance had the ring of truth--evil marketers, including Chinese representatives of Western companies keep hurdler Liu Xiang from training with their constant demands for his time and energy. Realizing he wouldn't be able to run with current world record holder Dayron Robles he faked an injury in the first heat to cover up his lack of fitness.

The big problem with this scenario is it assumes that Liu Xiang's coach was the only person in the entire Chinese track and field establishment who realized that Liu was losing essential training time to the likes of Nike and Visa and that he wasn't able to change the situation--he was a lone voice for athletic sanity in the seething cauldron of commercial hype that was engulfing the most famous athlete in the PRC (metaphors by Mixmaster) who was headed into what everyone in the the world, including his sponsors, hoped would be a mano a mano duel with Robles decided at the tape by three one-hundredths of a second. There are lots of reasons why training doesn't go as well as it should but the Chinese sports bureaucracy losing control probably isn't one.

I think it is a real shame that Liu couldn't compete and it is an odd place for a muscle pull, coming right off the blocks, but false starts can be treacherous.

I am just happy that the real Olympic Games--track and field, boxing--have begun. :D
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Postby dleedlee » Thu Aug 21, 2008 3:30 pm

I am just happy that the real Olympic Games--track and field, boxing--have begun.


Not to mention Rhythmic Dancing. :shock:
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Postby Brian Thibodeau » Thu Aug 21, 2008 6:04 pm

dleedlee wrote:Not to mention Rhythmic Dancing. :shock:


These girls said they liked you, Dennis. Now I have to console them. Too bad for you. Hope you don't mock beach volleyball anytime soon . . .

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Postby dleedlee » Thu Aug 21, 2008 6:30 pm

These girls said they liked you, Dennis. Now I have to console them. Too bad for you. Hope you don't mock beach volleyball anytime soon . . .


Hey, I actually watched it this morning (and plan to watch as much as possible)! :oops: So please pass the word.

The only thing I didn't like about the beach volleyball is how NBC crammed Misty and Kerri down our throats for a week. Standard U-S-A only coverage I suppose. I was rooting for the China A team to upset them last night in the finals. But I thought China's young B team played better earlier this week.

Anyone else notice that NBC seems to purposely avoid showing the beach cheerleaders, Fuwas and and the other rah-rah groups during any of the sporting game breaks?
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Postby Brian Thibodeau » Fri Aug 22, 2008 3:14 am

IOC launches investigation into Chinese gymnast
Probe announced after hacker claims to have found official Chinese documents listing gold-medal winner He Kexin's age as 14, not 16
http://olympics.thestar.com/2008/article/483329


P.S. Dennis. I'll do my best. ;)
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Postby Brian Thibodeau » Fri Aug 22, 2008 6:22 am

How the hacker found the documents
http://strydehax.blogspot.com/2008/08/h ... mpics.html

and the aftermath as certain search records, supposedly of information that's "wrong" anyways, disappear with super speed! Smells like somebody's got something to hide . . . and crowd-sourcing (largely via mirror sites) is keeping it from staying hidden.
http://strydehax.blogspot.com/

Almost feel sorry for the gymnast if she loses the gold medals over this, but a nearly two-years-younger advantage over her competitors is hardly fair in this sport. It's too bad if the authorities decided to rest so many hopes for glory on her shoulders. :(



I.O.C. Asks for Inquiry of Chinese Gymnasts (may require login)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/sport ... .html?_r=1

According to online sports registration lists in China, half the team — He Kexin, Yang Yilin, Jiang Yuyuan — would be under age. The F.I.G., however, has said that those gymnasts were eligible and that the ages on their passports were correct.



IOC: No proof China cheated
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ ... g2008/home
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