News Links - 8/29/07

[dleedlee]

Chinese director Feng Xiaogang's new war movie The Assembly to open Busan film festival
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/ ... pening.php


The Government Information Office asks film festival to fix 'China'
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/2007 ... rnment.htm
Taiwan protests listing of Ang Lee's new movie as Chinese at Venice film festival
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/ ... Taiwan.php
The big Ang
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6250281.html

Woo's `Blood Brothers' Is Weighed Down by Stars, Style, Subject
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... refer=home

The Good, the Bad, and the Set-Pieces - Exiled
Johnnie To, gunslinger, pays stylish homage to the good old days
http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0735,h ... 26,20.html

Zhang Ziyi in line for "Waiting"
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/1971/1/

Actor Hu Jun Plays Patriotic Hero Anew
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/08/28/1261@267328.htm

Venice Film Festival
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6250280.html

More fame and film for club hostess Coco Liu
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/show/story ... 02,00.html?
Go-Go Dancer Gets Movie Deal
http://www.filmstew.com/showArticle.asp ... ntID=16337

The Sun Also Rises poster


Simon Yam, Irene Wan, Nick Cheung in Exodus


http://ent.sina.com.cn/m/c/p/2007-08-28 ... 2895.shtml

Aaron Kwok in Oxide Pang's The Photo (October)


http://ent.sina.com.cn/m/c/p/2007-08-28 ... 2538.shtml

Karena Lam in Anna and Anna

http://ent.sina.com.cn/m/c/2007-08-28/13111692915.shtml


881's Papaya sisters profiled
What you see... Actors playing Papaya sisters
Is not what you hear. Songs actually sung by local getai duo Ming Zhu sisters
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/show/story ... 16,00.html?

Yi Jianlian Signs Contract with Bucks
http://english.cri.cn/2886/2007/08/29/65@267731.htm

[dleedlee]

Yu Nan (Tuya's Marriage) to Judge Pusan Film Fest
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/08/29/1261@267737.htm

[Brian Thibodeau]

Not really entertainment related, although shopping in these places is very entertaining :

Great shopping comes to the port lands:
T & T is considered a benchmark for Asian grocery stores. It has finally come downtown
http://www.thestar.com/living/article/250735

http://www.insidetoronto.ca/news/News/B ... icle/30625

They may just be grocery stores, but they're fast becoming destinations in and of themselves in this country (this is the fifth within a short drive of my home ), for precisely the reasons mentioned in these stories: clean, friendly, bilingual, fresh, and stocked with the broadest selection of Chinese and Pan-Asian food you'll ever find under one roof, at least here in Canada. The dismal, aging, frequently stinky grocery stores in our old Chinatowns (and probably in many older Chinatowns I'm sure you've all been to) could really learn a thing or two from this chain. I can imagine it's only a matter of time before they spread beyond borders.

Now if only they'd put out an IPO.

So, if anybody who hangs out here is ever in Toronto, one of these might be worth a visit. The new one is right across the street from Cirque du Soleil. Smooth...