News Links - 2/14/08

[dleedlee]

Ming Pao reports 'Nicholas Tse & Cecilia Cheung To Divorce'
http://batgwa.com/story.php?id=610
'Edison Chen Back In Hong Kong Sunday'
http://batgwa.com/story.php?id=609
Users tricked by promise of celebrity porn
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/22095 ... ex-scandal

Kon Ichikawa dead at 92
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/5506/1/

Marriage Trap opens for Valentine's Day
Manfred Wong production star Tao Hong
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2008/02/14/1261@323240.htm
Try a Little Kung Fu Action at the Movies for V-Day
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2008/02/14/1261@323148.htm

Yoji Yamada's Japan WWII drama "Kabei" strikes pacifist note at Berlin film festival
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iRX ... ouXIMZRohQ

Qin Hailu: A Movie to Direct before Thinking about Marriage
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2008/02/14/1461@323080.htm

South Korean pop star Rain to star in Hollywood film "Ninja Assassin"
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i64 ... UhAGFpUgDw
The singer's other upcoming activities include recording a new version of seventies hit "Kungfu Fighting"
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/5507/1/

"Shanghai Trance" review
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/5505/1/

Two Chinese films, "Sparrow" and "In Love We Trust", in Berlin carry urban health warnings
http://www.macaudailytimesnews.com/inde ... &Itemid=31

Spielberg pulls out of Beijing Olympics
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/5501/1/

Beijing Film Academy Attracts 5,100 Candidates in One Day
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2008/02/14/1261@323130.htm

Lin Chi-ling Plans to Release Music Album in New Year
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2008/02/14/1461@323081.htm

[Brian Thibodeau]

Bai Ling to Sing Sing? Wacktress arrested at LAX . . .
http://www.tmz.com/2008/02/14/bai-ling- ... ed-at-lax/

(a TMZ followup story notes how her blog entry about being delayed at the airport didn't exactly mention why. )

[ewaffle]

Bai Ling to Sing Sing? Wacktress arrested at LAX . . .
http://www.tmz.com/2008/02/14/bai-ling- ... ed-at-lax/

"Wacktress"

That is as good as some of the stuff in the Daily Variety stylebook, where an actor who leaving a movie or play becomes the headline Thesp Ankles Prod or the apocryphal but still funny headlines like
Wall Street Lays an Egg (after 1929 stock market crash) or Sticks Nix Hicks Flix (from the movie "Yankee Doodle Dandy" with James Cagney.

The link on the TMZ page to the video of Ling dancing is "Bail Ling" which could be a joke, a mistake or even an exhortation...

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The Chicken Dance of Bail Ling

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[Brian Thibodeau]

That is as good as some of the stuff in the Daily Variety stylebook, where an actor who leaving a movie or play becomes the headline Thesp Ankles Prod or the apocryphal but still funny headlines like
Wall Street Lays an Egg (after 1929 stock market crash) or Sticks Nix Hicks Flix (from the movie "Yankee Doodle Dandy" with James Cagney.

The Variety stylebook is amazing! I've stolen a word or two from it on occasion, but one has to be careful . . .

An old favourite that used to hang on the wall of my J-school classroom was the New York Post's legendary "Headless Body In Topless Bar." Tough to top that one.

The link on the TMZ page to the video of Ling dancing is "Bail Ling" which could be a joke, a mistake or even an exhortation...

It's TMZ, so it's definitely intentional. I suppose they could have also used "Flai Ling" for her dance video as well, or "Stea Ling" in regards to her latest escapade.