Wang Lee Hom

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Wang Lee Hom and Selina

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Wang Lee Hom

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Selina and Wang Lee Hom

News: http://ent.sina.com.cn/y/2007-07-18/09431642381.shtml

18 July 2007

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Wang Lee Hom and Selina
MV

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News: http://www.xin.sg/article.php?article=7353&category=81

19 July 2007

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Wang Lee Hom

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Wang Lee Hom and Xiao S

News: http://ent.163.com/07/0719/11/3JOTU5IL000327RF.html

19 July 2007

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pop stop

Compiled by Ho Yi

Friday, 20 July 2007, Page 14

...

Environmentalism is in vogue these days, though it is ironically facilitated by the henchmen of consumerism that include brand worship and the celebrity pitch. While English designer Anya Hindmarch's limited edition eco-friendly shopping bags triggered riots in front of local department stores that ended with broken shop windows, injured shoppers, piles of trash and police mediation two weeks ago, ABT pop star Wang Lee-hom took a ride on a giant globe to raise environmental awareness at a press conference in Beijing last week held to promote his new album Change Me, the sleeve of which is made from recycled paper rather than plastic.

The environmentally-friendly star also proved his political sensitivity and pandered to both Taiwan and China by singing Long Live the Chinese and a Taiwanese ballad.

The smooth singer, however, is said to be less than eloquent in Ang Lee's Lust, Caution currently in post-production and slated to hit local theaters by the end of September. When asked by the local press about the performances delivered by the star-studded cast last week, Lee gave two thumbs up to Tony Leung and Tang Wei but admitted Wang wasn't much of an actor.

"He didn't really know how to act at first, but did catch up half way through the shooting," Lee was quoted as saying.

Source: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2007/07/20/2003370520

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Wang Lee Hom's Event:

21 July 2007
2:00 p.m.
(02) 27668900
Taichung Shinkong Mitsukoshi

Source: http://1-apple.com.tw/apple/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&Sec_ID=9&ShowDate=20070721&NewsType=twapple&Loc=TP&Art_ID=3661817

21 July 2007

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News: http://1-apple.com.tw/apple/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&Sec_ID=9&ShowDate=20070721&NewsType=twapple&Loc=TP&Art_ID=3661890

21 July 2007

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Wang Lee Hom's Event:

22 July 2007
2:00 p.m.
Hsinchu Shinkong Mitsukoshi Department Store
(02) 27668900

Source: http://1-apple.com.tw/apple/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&Sec_ID=9&ShowDate=20070722&NewsType=twapple&Loc=TP&Art_ID=3663452

22 July 2007

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News: http://udn.com/NEWS/ENTERTAINMENT/ENT6/3938602.shtml

22 July 2007

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Tony Leung in "Lust, Caution"

2007-07-25
15:38:54
CRIENGLISH.com

..."Lust, Caution," the latest art-house film by "Brokeback Mountain" director Ang Lee. The Cannes best actor plays an intelligence chief working for the Japanese-backed government in 1940s Shanghai. The film is due out in the United States in late September. It's an adaptation of a short story by Chinese writer Eileen Chang, and also stars Chinese American musician Lee-Hom Wang, veteran actress Joan Chen, and up-and-comer Tang Wei.

Source: http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/07/25/1261@253675.htm

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Xiao S and Wang Lee Hom

News: http://1-apple.com.tw/apple/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&Sec_ID=9&ShowDate=20070725&NewsType=twapple&Loc=TP&Art_ID=3671475

25 July 2007

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News: http://udn.com/NEWS/ENTERTAINMENT/ENT6/3944109.shtml

26 July 2007

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First Trailer of Ang Lee's LUST, CAUTION Released Officially (Focus Features)

24 July 2007

It is the same trailer, showed up on Focus Features' website almost a month ago and was removed shortly after.

QuickTime:

High - (http://www.focusfeatures.com/viewer.php?f=lust_caution&c=trailer&ext=mov&w=480&h=260)

Low - (http://www.focusfeatures.com/viewer.php?f=lust_caution&c=trailer&ext=mov&w=320&h=172)

Windows Media:

High - (http://www.focusfeatures.com/viewer.php?f=lust_caution&c=trailer&ext=wmv&w=480&h=260)

Low - (http://www.focusfeatures.com/viewer.php?f=lust_caution&c=trailer&ext=wmv&w=320&h=172)

(Thanks to Focus Features and Mighty Ganesha.)

Source: http://www.monkeypeaches.com/

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News: http://1-apple.com.tw/apple/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&Sec_ID=9&ShowDate=20070727&NewsType=twapple&Loc=TP&Art_ID=3678498#%23

27 July 2007

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Wang Lee Hom's Event:

27 July 2007
2:00 p.m.
Taipei 101 91
(02) 27343347

Source: http://1-apple.com.tw/apple/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&Sec_ID=9&ShowDate=20070727&NewsType=twapple&Loc=TP&Art_ID=3678614

27 July 2007

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Venezia 64 Lineup (LaBiennale.org)

26 July 2007

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The full lineup of the 64th Venice International Film Festival has been announced today.

In Competition:
The Sun Also Rises (China / Hong Kong) - by director JIANG Wen
Help Me Eros (Taiwan) - by director LEE Kang-sheng
Lust, Caution (China / USA) - by director Ang LEE
Sukiyaki Western Django (Japan) - by director MIIKE Takashi

Out of Competition:
Beyond the Years (South Korea) - by director IM Kwon-Taek
Glory to the Filmmaker! (Japan) - by director KITANO Takeshi
Blood Brothers (Taiwan / China / Hong Kong) - by director Alexi TAN

Orizzonti:
Sad Vacation (Japan) - by director AOYAMA Shinji
With the Girl of Black Soil (South Korea / France) - by director JEON Soo-il
The Obscure (China) - by director L Yue

Orizzonti Doc:
Umbrella (China) - by director DU Haibin
Useless (China) - by director JIA Zhangke

Corto Cortissimo - In Competition:
Fish (South Korea) - by director JUHN Jaihong
Guo dao (China) - by director ZHANG Yue

Source: http://www.monkeypeaches.com/

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Line-up

Biennale Cinema 64th Venice Film Festival Venezia 64 - In Competition

Joe WRIGHT Atonement - UK / USA, 123’
Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Vanessa Redgrave, Romola Garai, Brenda Blethyn
64th Venice Film Festival opening film

Wes ANDERSON The Darjeeling Limited - USA, 91’
Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Anjelica Huston, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray

Kenneth BRANAGH Sleuth - UK / USA, 86’
Michael Caine, Jude Law

Youssef CHAHINE Heya fawda (Le Chaos) - Egypt, 122’
Khaled Saleh, Mena Shalaby, Hala Sedky, Youssef El Cherif

Brian DE PALMA Redacted - USA, 90’
Kel O'Neill, Daniel Stewart Sherman

Andrew DOMINIK The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - USA, 155’
Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard

Paolo FRANCHI Nessuna qualità agli eroi - Italy / Switzerland / France, 102’
Elio Germano, Bruno Todeschini, Irène Jacob

Tony GILROY Michael Clayton - USA, 119’
George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Sydney Pollack

Peter GREENAWAY Nightwatching - UK / Poland / Canada / Netherlands, 134’
Martin Freeman, Emily Holmes, Michael Teigen

Jose Luis GUERIN En la ciudad de Sylvia - Spain, 90’
Pilar Lopez De Ayala, Xavier Lafitte

Paul HAGGIS In the Valley of Elah - USA, 120’
Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, Susan Sarandon

Todd HAYNES I’m not There - USA, 135’
Richard Gere, Cate Blanchett, Heath Ledger, Julianne Moore, Christian Bale, Charlotte Gainsbourg

JIANG Wen Taiyang zhaochang shenqi (The Sun Also Rises) - China / Hong Kong, 116’
Jiang Wen, Joan Chen, Zhou Yun, Jaycee Chan, Anthony Wong

LEE Kang Sheng (LI Kangsheng) Bangbang wo aishen (Help Me Eros) - Taiwan, 107’
Lee Kang Sheng, Yin Shin

Abdellatif KECHICHE La Graine et le mulet - France, 151’
Habib Boufares, Marzouk Bouraouïa, Faridah Benkhetache, Sabrina Ouazani

Ang LEE (LI An) Se, jie (Lust, Caution) - Taiwan, 135’
Tony Leung, Joan Chen, Tang Wei

Ken LOACH It’s a Free World… - UK / Italy / Germany / Spain, 96’
Juliet Ellis, Leslaw Zurek, Kierston Wareing

Vincenzo MARRA L’ora di punta - Italy, 96’
Fanny Ardant, Michele Lastella, Giulia Bevilacqua

MIIKE Takashi Sukiyaki Western Django - Japan, 121’
Quentin Tarantino, Hideaki Ito, Kaori Momoi, Yoshino Rimura

Nikita MIKHALKOV 12 - Russian Federation, 153’
Nikita Mikhalkov, Sergey Makovezkij, Mikhail Yefremov, Sergei Garmash

Andrea PORPORATI Il dolce e l’amaro - Italy, 98’
Fabrizio Gifuni, Luigi Lo Cascio, Donatella Finocchiaro

Eric ROHMER Les Amours d’Astrée et Céladon - France / Italy / Spain, 109’
Stéphanie Crayencour, Andy Gillet, Cécile Cassel

Source: http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/program/en/14372.html

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Pop Stop

By Jules Quartly
STAFF REPORTER
Friday, 27 July 2007, Page 14

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It's official. Well, almost. Shu Qi has caught Wang Lee-hom's eye.
PHOTO: TAIPEI TIMES

Finally, genuine gossip from real stars. Wang Lee-hom is not everyone's cup of tea, but the four-time Golden Melody award winner has sold 13 million records. His appearance on Here Comes Kang and Xi this week was a corker as his rumored affair with Shu Qi was brought up. Obviously the show's producers made the most of this in their promotions. Wang's record company Sony BMG, however, got in a huff and said its sultry singer would not be appearing on the program again. Guess it must be true then. Wang loves Shu.

Source: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2007/07/27/2003371539

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News: http://1-apple.com.tw/apple/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&Sec_ID=9&ShowDate=20070728&NewsType=twapple&Loc=TP&Art_ID=3681415

28 July 2007

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Composer, singer and actor Lee Hom Wang holds up a symbolic microchip at a press conference announcing the premiere of "Megacities: Taipei" on the National Geographic Channel at 9 p.m. tomorrow.

Photo by

Nancy T. Lu

2007-07-28

Source: http://www.etaiwannews.com/gallery.php?highlight_id=940716&category=41

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News: http://udn.com/NEWS/ENTERTAINMENT/ENT6/3946900.shtml

28 July 2007

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Festival changes Ang Lee film's country of origin

MAKING GOOD: The films made by three Taiwanese directors, including Lee Ang, Lee Kang-sheng and Alexi Tan, will be shown at this year's Italian festival

STAFF WRITER
Saturday, 28 July 2007, Page 1

The organizers of the Venice Film Festival yesterday changed the country of origin for Taiwanese director Lee Ang's new film Se, jie (Lust, Caution) from "China-US" to "Taiwan" on the festival's official Web site following a protest from Lee's office.

When the films that were selected for competition at the 64th Venice Film Festival were announced yesterday, Lee's film and director Lee Kang-sheng's film, Bangbang wo aishen (Help Me Eros), were among them.

Taiwanese flavor

Taiwanese director Alexi Tan's film Tiantang kou (Blood Brothers) has been chosen as the closing film, giving the festival a particularly strong Taiwanese flavor.

A report yesterday in the Chinese-language United Evening News said that when the selected films were first listed on the film festival's official Web site two days ago, the country of origin for Lee Ang's film was listed as "China-US," which upset his Taiwanese fans.

Lee's office in New York received a wave of concerned telephone calls.

Lee Ang's assistant, Li Liang-shan, immediately contacted the film festival's organizers to clarify the issue.

The registration form for his film had listed Taiwan as the film's country of origin.

Country of origin

According to the newspaper, Li said that the film had received US financing and was shot in China, but the three major European film festivals -- Venice, Cannes and Berlin -- all list the director's home country as the country of origin for a film. As Lee is a citizen of Taiwan, the film should be listed as Taiwanese, Li said.

Tan's film is listed as originating in "Taiwan/China/Hong Kong," Lee Kang-sheng's is listed as "Taiwan," and Jiang's as "China/Hong Kong."

Source: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2007/07/28/2003371562

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Wang Lee Hom's Event:

29 July 2007
2:00 p.m.
(02) 27668900
Taipei's Hsinyi Mitsukoshi

News: http://1-apple.com.tw/apple/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&Sec_ID=9&ShowDate=20070729&NewsType=twapple&Loc=TP&Art_ID=3683654

29 July 2007

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News: http://1-apple.com.tw/apple/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&Sec_ID=9&ShowDate=20070730&NewsType=twapple&Loc=TP&Art_ID=3685535

30 July 2007

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Selina and Wang Lee Hom

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July 20-26, 2007

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KKBOX
July 22-28, 2007

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July 20-26, 2007

News: http://1-apple.com.tw/apple/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&Sec_ID=9&ShowDate=20070730&NewsType=twapple&Loc=TP&Art_ID=3685588

30 July 2007

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News: http://udn.com/NEWS/ENTERTAINMENT/ENT3/3948854.shtml

30 July 2007

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News: http://udn.com/NEWS/ENTERTAINMENT/ENT6/3951915.shtml

01 August 2007

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News: http://udn.com/NEWS/ENTERTAINMENT/ENT7/3951916.shtml

01 August 2007

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News: http://ent.163.com/07/0801/14/3KQN7B5F00031NJP.html

01 August 2007

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News: http://ent.163.com/07/0801/11/3KQAFUGN000327RF.html

01 August 2007

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fans with Lee Hom's posters

News: http://news.music.mop.com/yuewen/2007-08-01/16929.shtml

01 August 2007

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News: http://udn.com/NEWS/ENTERTAINMENT/ENT6/3955118.shtml

03 August 2007


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News: http://udn.com/NEWS/ENTERTAINMENT/ENT6/3954144.shtml

02 August 2007

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News: http://udn.com/NEWS/ENTERTAINMENT/ENT6/3957343.shtml

05 August 2007

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04 August 2007, 3:05 p.m.

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3:15 p.m.

News: http://1-apple.com.tw/apple/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&Sec_ID=9&ShowDate=20070805&NewsType=twapple&Loc=TP&Art_ID=3702891#%23

05 August 2007

[kczhu]

Mandarin Music Awards Still Reign of Andy Lau

2007-08-05
11:15:22
CRIENGLISH.com

Cantonese-speaking superstar singer Andy Lau on Saturday garnered six big prizes at the Metro Radio Mandarin Music Awards, continuing his reign as the king of Hong Kong's only music awards for Mandopop.

The awards that went to Andy Lau included Song of the Year, Singer of Asia and Outstanding Album, for his latest work "Miracle World."

The Hong Kong native walked away as the biggest winner of the night, despite several other Mandarin-speaking singers from the Chinese mainland vying for glory.

The 45-year-old music mainstay, whose name is attached to dozens of Mandarin albums, has been the awards' biggest winner every year since its inauguration in 2004, by Hong Kong's Metro Showbiz 99.7 FM.

Winners of the night's thirty awards also included Malaysian singers Guang Liang and Gary Cao winning Metro Radio Male Singers, "Super Girl" Zhang Liangying sharing the Metro Radio Female Singer award with Taiwan's Elva Hsiao and Hong Kong's Joey Yung. Lee-Hom Wang won Metro Radio Producer. Jay Chou was also honored with Metro Radio Album of Asia for "Still Fantasy," and actor-turned-singer Huang Xiaoming was awarded Idol Singer of the Chinese Mainland.

Source: http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/08/05/1261@257720.htm

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News: http://udn.com/NEWS/ENTERTAINMENT/ENT6/3960056.shtml

07 August 2007

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Wang Lee Hom and Jay Chou

News: http://1-apple.com.tw/apple/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&Sec_ID=9&ShowDate=20070808&NewsType=twapple&Loc=TP&Art_ID=3709105

08 August 2007

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Wang Lee Hom and Jay Chou

News: http://udn.com/NEWS/ENTERTAINMENT/ENT3/3961702.shtml

08 August 2007

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News: http://udn.com/NEWS/ENTERTAINMENT/ENT6/3961697.shtml

08 August 2007

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News: http://udn.com/NEWS/ENTERTAINMENT/ENT3/3963318.shtml

09 August 2007

[kczhu]

New Asian Chinese Edition of Ang Lee's LUST, CAUTION

10 August 2007

This Asian / Chinese edition (1 minute 30 seconds), 15 seconds shorter than the one Focus Features released at its website, got many shots we have never seen before.

It is the same trailer, showed up on Focus Features' website almost a month ago and was removed shortly after.

Click here: http://ent.sina.com.cn/m/c/bn/2007-08-10/115818646.shtml

Or here: http://v.sohu.com/20070810/n251522632.shtml

Source: http://www.monkeypeaches.com/

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Wang Lee Hom

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Cover Page

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News: http://1-apple.com.tw/apple/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&Sec_ID=9&ShowDate=20070812&NewsType=twapple&Loc=TP&Art_ID=3722545

12 August 2007

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News: http://1-apple.com.tw/apple/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&Sec_ID=9&ShowDate=20070812&NewsType=twapple&Loc=TP&Art_ID=3722566#%23

12 August 2007

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News: http://1-apple.com.tw/apple/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&Sec_ID=9&ShowDate=20070812&NewsType=twapple&Loc=TP&Art_ID=3722758

12 August 2007

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News: http://1-apple.com.tw/apple/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&Sec_ID=9&ShowDate=20070813&NewsType=twapple&Loc=TP&Art_ID=3725307

13 August 2007

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1:00 p.m.
CX565
(02) 27668900
Taipei to Xiamen

Flight: CX565
Departure: TPE (Taipei), 14:10 (2:10 p.m.)
Arrival: HKG (Hong Kong), 15:55 (3:55 p.m.)
Duration: 01:45

Flight: CX6810
Departure: HKG (Hong Kong), 17:35 (5:35 p.m.)
Arrival: XMN (Xiamen), 18:55 (6:55 p.m.)
Duration: 01:20

News: http://1-apple.com.tw/apple/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&Sec_ID=9&ShowDate=20070814&NewsType=twapple&Loc=TP&Art_ID=3728630

and

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14 August 2007

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News: http://www.yangtse.com/xwpd/wy/200708/t20070813_339496.htm

13 August 2007

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U STARS

Date of Issue: 16 August 2007

Cover:
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Wang Lee Hom

Source: http://reading.udn.com/mag/index_s.shtml

[kczhu]

POP STOP

By Ho Yi
STAFF REPORTER
Friday, August 17, 2007, Page 14

...

On a melancholy note, ABT pop star Wang Lee-hom is suspected to be suffering from depression after canceling 20 publicity events, six album-signing gatherings and one nearly sold-out concert. Even veteran gossipmongers are lost for a cause of Wang's woes as his career has been on a stratospheric trajectory of late.

The star's agent issued a statement denying the speculation, and emphasized that while Wang did go to the hospital, he visited the shenching, or neurosurgery, department for severe back problems, and not the chingshen, or psychiatry department.

Source: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2007/08/17/2003374688

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g-music and KKBOX

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Holiday KTV

News: http://1-apple.com.tw/apple/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&Sec_ID=9&ShowDate=20070819&NewsType=twapple&Loc=TP&Art_ID=3742612

19 August 2007

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19 August 2007

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21 August 2007

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News: http://www.singtao.com/yesterday/ent/0821fo08.html

21 August 2007

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News: http://udn.com/NEWS/ENTERTAINMENT/ENT1/3979616.shtml

21 August 2007

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News: http://ent.163.com/07/0821/13/3ME2BFNA000327RF.html

22 August 2007

[kczhu]

Lee-Hom Wang with Hot Dancer in New MV

2007-08-21
20:33:16
CRIENGLISH.com

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Pop singer Lee-Hom Wang shoots a music video for a new song with a femalel dancer in Taiwan on Monday, August 20, 2007.
[Photo: sina.com]

Source: http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/08/21/1221@264387.htm

[kczhu]

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Wang Lee Hom's Event:

Friday, 24 August 2007
2:00 p.m.
(02) 87611845
Taipei Takashi Road 327
KTV

News: http://1-apple.com.tw/apple/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&Sec_ID=9&ShowDate=20070824&NewsType=twapple&Loc=TP&Art_ID=3756599

24 August 2007

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News: http://1-apple.com.tw/apple/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&Sec_ID=9&ShowDate=20070824&NewsType=twapple&Loc=TP&Art_ID=3756494

24 August 2007

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News: http://udn.com/NEWS/ENTERTAINMENT/ENT6/3985700.shtml

25 August 2007

[kczhu]

Pop Stop

Compiled by Jules Quartly
STAFF REPORTER
Friday, 24 August 2007, Page 14

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Who doesn't fancy Wang Lee-hom?
PHOTO: TAIPEI TIMES

Wang Lee-hom was said to have been tickled pink when told he was a gay man's wet dream. In a poll run by the Web site Club1069, Wang came out on top of the sausage jockeys, beating thespian Takashi Kaneshiro, Malaysian singer Prince Nicholas, actor Mike He and the crooner Edison Chan. The newly crowned Emperor of Tutti Frutti was said by Apple Daily to have worn a "proud little smile" before "thanking all gays for their support" and saying he was "honored."

"Homeboy" (as he is known to his friends) is in reality a closet womanizer and rumored to be dating Shu Qi.

...

Source: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2007/08/24/2003375699

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Wang Lee Hom's Event:

Saturday, 25 August 2007
4:00 p.m.
(02) 27690698

Source: http://1-apple.com.tw/apple/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&Sec_ID=9&ShowDate=20070825&NewsType=twapple&Loc=TP&Art_ID=3760227

25 August 2007

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News: http://1-apple.com.tw/apple/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&Sec_ID=9&ShowDate=20070825&NewsType=twapple&Loc=TP&Art_ID=3760118

25 August 2007

[kczhu]

Ang Lee's 'Lust' Gets Adult Rating

2007 August 25
09:12:19
UPI

The erotic spy thriller "Lust, Caution," the latest from director Ang Lee, has drawn an NC-17 rating from the Motion Picture Association of America.

The movie, starring Tony Leung and newcomer Tang Wei, will screen during the Toronto International Film Festival before opening in New York Sept. 28 and expanding to more U.S. markets Oct. 5.

Focus Features, the film's distributor, was said to have accepted the MPAA rating without a fuss, Variety reported Thursday.

"As with so many of his previous films, Oscar-winning director Ang Lee has crafted a masterpiece about and for grown-ups," said Focus Chief Executive Officer James Schamus, who co-wrote "Lust, Caution" with Wang Hui Ling.

The Mandarin-language, sexually explicit film is based on Eileen Chang's short story about a shy Chinese drama student drawn into an assassination plot against a Japanese collaborator during World War II.

The MPAA created the NC-17 rating in 1990 as an attempt to remove the stigma of an X rating.

Lee's last film, the provocative "Brokeback Mountain," earned him the Academy Award in the director's category.

Source: http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/08/25/63@265983.htm

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2007 August 26


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Ang Lee's LUST, CAUTION Got NC-17 in America and Shortened in China (...)

2007 August 25

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Both Variety and The Hollywood Reporter report Ang Lee’s latest film, Lust, Caution has been rated NC-17 in the US. Let’s hail director Ang Lee, producer James Schamus and Focus Feature for not kowtowing the outdated MPAA by deleting some shots in order to get an “R.”

In the US, the censors would make a movie less accessible if they thought it was too extreme. However in China, where the film was made, the policy has always been "cut or no deal." According to newspaper, The Beijing News, a deputy director of the State Film Bureau said those “pornographic shots” had been deleted but there were only a handful of them and it would not affect how the audiences understood the story. There is no movie rating system in China and the regulator has refused, even talking about the possibility of a rating system. All movies have to be made or cut to be suitable for audiences of all ages. By just cutting a few shots, this movie would probably match the "R" standard by MPAA. Ironically, an "R" movie is still not quite appropriate for kids to watch but it is considered safe for everyone in China.

(Thanks to “Sean” and “Mighty Ganesha” for the links.)

Source: http://www.monkeypeaches.com/


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Wang Lee Hom's Event:

Sunday, 2007 August 26
1:00 p.m.
(02) 27668900
Hualien

News: http://1-apple.com.tw/apple/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&Sec_ID=9&ShowDate=20070826&NewsType=twapple&Loc=TP&Art_ID=3762532

2007 August 26

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News: http://udn.com/NEWS/ENTERTAINMENT/ENT6/3987518.shtml

2007 August 27

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News: http://udn.com/NEWS/ENTERTAINMENT/ENT6/3989173.shtml

2007 August 28

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Wang Lee Hom's Event:

Tuesday, 2007 August 28
2:00 pm
Kuangfu Road in Taipei
11 Avenue, 12th floor, 35
(02) 87611841

Source: http://1-apple.com.tw/apple/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&Sec_ID=9&ShowDate=20070828&NewsType=twapple&Loc=TP&Art_ID=3767016

2007 August 28

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Chinese Stars Join Hands for Charity

2007 August 28
17:38:42
CRIENGLISH.com

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Chinese-American musician Lee-Hom Wang poses with a baseball cap, featuring his autograph, in this recent photo. Lee-Hom Wang is among one hundred Chinese entertainers who have left their personal drawings on some baseball caps, which are to be auctioned online at hitoradio.com until September 5. Most of the proceeds will be donated to the Taipei-based Chinese Children's Home and Shelter Association. [Photo: Tungstar/ent.sina.com.cn]

Source: http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/08/28/1261@267235_5.htm

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"Lust, Caution" Sets China Screening Date

2007 August 27
20:30:54
CRIENGLISH.com

The greatly-anticipated new film by Oscar-winning director Ang Lee, "Lust, Caution," will roll in to Chinese theaters on September 26.

The new date is two days earlier than the previously-announced screening time.

Monday's Beijing Times quoted sources from the China Film Group, confirming the news.

The erotic spy thriller, set to premiere in North America in late September, has recently been given an NC-17 rating in the United States, meaning admission to the film will not be granted to anyone under the age of 17.

However, it is critically considered a potential winner of this year's Golden Lion award at the upcoming Venice International Film Festival.

Source: http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/08/27/1261@266880.htm

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News: http://1-apple.com.tw/apple/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&Sec_ID=9&ShowDate=20070829&NewsType=twapple&Loc=TP&Art_ID=3770649

2007 August 29

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News: http://udn.com/NEWS/ENTERTAINMENT/ENT1/3990745.shtml

2007 August 29

[kczhu]

ART & LEISURE

Taiwan protests China label for Ang Lee film 'Lust, Caution'

Wednesday, 2007 August 29 - HONG KONG, AP

Taiwan criticized the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday for listing a movie by Oscar-winning Taiwanese director Ang Lee as originating in "Taiwan, China," a label that suggests the self-ruled island is part of mainland China.
China and Taiwan split amid civil war in 1949, but Beijing still considers self-ruled Taiwan as its territory and has threatened to retake it by force.

In a statement on its Web site, Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council protested the Venice event's use of "Taiwan, China" to identify movies from the island and blamed China for the move.

"The black hand of China has entered the pure world of art," the statement said.

China routinely opposes Taiwanese membership in international organizations, which it sees as conferring the status of nationhood on the island.

Among the movies showing in Venice with Taiwanese investment are Lee's new spy thriller, the U.S.-China-Taiwan co-production "Lust, Caution;" the John Woo-produced gangster thriller "Blood Brothers," a Hong Kong-China-Taiwan co-production; and the Taiwanese arthouse movie "Help Me Eros."

On the Venice International Film Festival's official Web site, "Help Me Eros" is listed as being from "Taiwan," while the Taiwanese involvement in "Lust, Caution" and "Blood Brothers" is identified as being from "Taiwan, China."

"Lust, Caution" and "Help Me Eros" are competing for Venice's top Golden Lion prize while "Blood Brothers," screening out of competition, is the festival's closing movie. The event runs from Wednesday to Saturday, Sept. 8.

Venice Film Festival organizers did not immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment.

Asked if it lobbied Venice organizers about the "Taiwan, China" label, spokesman Weng Li at the influential state-run film company China Film Group, which is distributing "Lust, Caution" in China, said the company didn't invest in the film and wasn't involved in the movie beyond its distribution.

The production company for "Lust, Caution," U.S.-based Focus Features, and Lee's assistant did not immediately respond to e-mails seeking comment.

Lee, renowned for his Oscar-winning films "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Brokeback Mountain," grew up in Taiwan before leaving for the U.S. in the late 1970s, but both Taiwan and China view Lee as their hero. Lee won a best director Oscar for "Brokeback Mountain" in 2006.

"Lust, Caution," based on a short story by famed Chinese writer Eileen Chang, is about a group of patriotic students who plot to assassinate the intelligence chief of China's Japan-backed World War II-era government.

It features Cannes best actor winner Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Joan Chen from "The Last Emperor," and Chinese-American pop star Leehom Wang.

Source: http://www.chinapost.com.tw/art/2007/08/29/120346/Taiwan-protests.htm

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Official Synopsis of Ang Lee's LUST, CAUTION

2007 August 29

The synopsis is a little bit spoiling, so please beware.

The new film from Ang Lee, the Academy Award-winning director of “ Brokeback Mountain ” and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.” A startling erotic espionage thriller about the fate of an ordinary woman’s heart, it is based on the short story by revered Chinese author Eileen Chang, and stars Asian cinema icon Tony Leung opposite screen newcomer Tang Wei. Shanghai, 1942. The World War II Japanese occupation of this Chinese city continues in force. Mrs. Mak, a woman of sophistication and means, walks into a cafe, places a call, and then sits and waits. She remembers…how her story began several years earlier, in 1938 China . She is not in fact Mrs. Mak, but shy Wong Chia Chi (Tang Wei). With WWII underway, Wong has been left behind by her father, who has escaped to England . As a freshman at university, she meets fellow student Kuang Yu Min (Wang Leehom) Kuang has started a drama society to shore up patriotism. As the theater troupe’s new leading lady, Wong realizes that she has found her calling, able to move and inspire audiences – and Kuang. He convenes a core group of students to carry out a radical and ambitious plan to assassinate a top Japanese collaborator, Mr. Yee (Tony Leung). Each student has a part to play; Wong will be Mrs. Mak, who will gain Yee’s trust by befriending his wife (Joan Chen) and then draw the man into an affair. Wong transforms herself utterly inside and out, and the scenario proceeds as scripted – until an unexpectedly fatal twist spurs her to flee. Shanghai, 1941. With no end in sight for the occupation, Wong – having emigrated from Hong Kong – goes through the motions of her existence. Much to her surprise, Kuang re-enters her life. Now part of the organized resistance, he enlists her to again become Mrs. Mak in a revival of the plot to kill Yee, who as head of the collaborationist secret service has become even more a key part of the puppet government. As Wong reprises her earlier role, and is drawn ever closer to her dangerous prey, she finds her very identity being pushed to the limit...

Source: http://www.monkeypeaches.com/

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2007 August 31

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Ang Lee's LUST, CAUTION Premiered in Venice

2007 August 30

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We are all waiting for reviews to pop up...

Source: http://www.monkeypeaches.com/

[kczhu]

Venice film festival unveils Ang Lee's steamy spy thriller

Agence France-Presse
Last updated 11:33pm (Mla time), 2007 August 30

VENICE, Italy -- The Venice film festival on Thursday was set to unveil Taiwanese director Ang Lee's steamy spy thriller "Se, Jie" (Lust, Caution) as its 75th anniversary celebration got into full swing.

The tense drama set in Shanghai in the 1940s stars novice actress Tang Wei as a resistance spy who slowly, creepily, lets her target, a powerful political figure played by Tony Leung, "worm his way into her heart."

Based on a short story by popular Chinese writer Eileen Chang and set in Japanese-occupied Shanghai in the 1940s, the film's many sex scenes are as explicit as they are emotionally ambiguous.

"I found some dark and obscure elements to adapt for my film" from a story that runs to only 28 pages, said Lee, whose "Brokeback Mountain" took the Golden Lion here in 2005 as well as the best director award at last year's Oscars.

...

Wednesday's opening gala of the festival, which runs through September 8...

...

Despite a preponderance of British and US entries this year -- totalling nine of the 22 candidates for the Golden Lion in the main competition -- the festival also boasts a sizeable Asian contingent.

Festival director Marco Mueller let drop Wednesday that the "surprise film" to be screened next week will be from an Asian country, specifying only that it is a country other than China, South Korea or Japan.

"Only from Asia do we have that special kind of present," Mueller said, adding: "It will be a brand new film -- he's still mixing it -- by an Asian master."

All 22 of the films in competition will be world premieres, a feat achieved only once before -- last year.

Another 22 films will vie for prizes in the avant-garde Horizons and Horizons Documentaries categories, while 13 will be screened out of competition.

...

Chinese director Zhang Yimou, who won Golden Lions for "The Story of Qiu Ju" (1992) and "Not One Less" (1999), will head the jury made up of directors only, as was the case with the festival's 50th anniversary.

"It's the first time I've taken part in an all-directors jury, and I have every expectation that we will work with success," Zhang said Wednesday.

All but six of the 57 films will be world premieres, including 15 of the 19 American selections.

Source: http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/breakingnews/breakingnews/view_article.php?article_id=85666

[kczhu]

Ang Lee spy thriller debuts at film festival

Friday, 2007 August 31

The Venice Film Festival was to unveil Taiwanese director Ang Lee's steamy spy thriller Se, Jie (Lust, Caution) yesterday as its 75th anniversary celebration went into full swing.

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The sparkling opening gala of the festival, which runs through September 8, saw the world premiere of British psychological drama Atonement with Keira Knightley and James McAvoy.

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Despite a preponderance of British and US entries this year - nine of the 22 candidates for the Golden Lion in the main competition - the festival also boasts a sizable Asian contingent, leading with Se, Jie.

Set in Shanghai in the 1940s, it is based on a short story by Eileen Chang.

"No story of Eileen Chang's is as beautiful or as cruel as Se, Jie, said Lee, whose Brokeback Mountain took the top prize in Venice in 2005.

Festival director Marco Mueller let drop that the "surprise film" to be screened next week will be from an Asian country, specifying only that it is a country other than China, South Korea or Japan.

"Only from Asia do we have that special kind of present," Mueller told a news conference, adding: "It will be a brand new film - he's still mixing it - by an Asian master."

All 22 of the films in competition will be world premieres, a feat achieved only once before: last year.

Another 22 films will vie for prizes in the avant-garde Horizons and Horizons Documentaries categories, while 13 will be screened out of competition.

...

Chinese director Zhang Yimou, who won Golden Lions for The Story of Qiu Ju (1992) and Not One Less (1999), will head the jury made up of directors only, as was the case with the festival's 50th anniversary.

"It's the first time I've taken part in an all-directors jury, and I have every expectation that we will work with success," Zhang said.

All but six of the 57 films will be world premieres.

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

Source: http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=18&art_id=52440&sid=15165720&con_type=1


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Porn rating fails to dent hopes of director

Friday, 2007 August 31

Oscar-winning director Ang Lee says his new spy thriller Lust, Caution has received the most restrictive "NC-17" rating in the United States, but he hopes the movie will change public perception that the category is reserved for pornography.

"In the past, NC-17 movies were equated with pornographic movies. Most movie theaters don't show them," Lee said at Venice airport after arriving to attend the city's film festival, where Lust, Caution is competing for the top Golden Lion prize.

"We hope to send the message in the United States that NC-17 is a respectable category and that it's not pornography. It's just unsuitable for children," Lee said.

Footage of the interview was posted on the Chinese news website Sina.com yesterday.

The NC-17 rating - the most restrictive rating - bans viewers under 17.

Lust, Caution, based on a short story by famed Chinese writer Eileen Chang, is about a group of patriotic students who plot to assassinate the intelligence chief in the Japanese-backed Chinese government during World War II.

Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu- wai plays the intelligence official Mr Yi, while Chinese newcomer Tang Wei plays student Wang Jiazhi who seduces Yi to pave the way for the assassination.

The movie also features Joan Chen from The Last Emperor and Chinese- American pop star Leehom Wang.

Variety reported earlier that the movie, which has not been released, features lovemaking from "provocative" sexual positions, implied oral sex, and full female frontal nudity.

Lee said, however, China, which does not have a ratings system, and his native Taiwan have cleared the movie. He said Taiwanese censors did not ask for any edits.

"Taiwan is more open than the United States these days," he said.

Lee distanced himself from the controversy over the country label for Lust, Caution, a US-China-Taiwan co- production.

The Taiwanese government has criticized Venice organizers for listing the Taiwanese involvement of the film as from "Taiwan, China."

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Source: http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?we_cat=7&art_id=52442&sid=15167106&con_type=1&d_str=20070831

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Entertainment News

Taiwan's Lee Ang back in Venice with steamy spy thriller

Posted: 2007 August 31, 0256 hrs

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Lee Ang (2nd L) and actors from film 'Lust, Caution' arrive for the movie screening at the 64th Venice Film Festival.

VENICE, Italy - Taiwan's Lee Ang, victorious in Venice two years ago with "Brokeback Mountain," was back Thursday, this time with erotic spy thriller "Se, Jie" (Lust, Caution) as the world's oldest film festival hotted up.

The tense drama set in Shanghai in the 1940s stars novice actress Tang Wei as a resistance spy who slowly, creepily, lets her target, a powerful political figure played by Tony Leung, "worm his way into her heart."

Based on a short story by popular Chinese writer Eileen Chang and set in Japanese-occupied Shanghai in the 1940s, the film's many sex scenes are as explicit as they are emotionally ambiguous.

"Sex in my film? It's just the search for oneself. What I wanted to show was none other than ambiguity," said Lee, whose "Brokeback Mountain" also garnered the best director award at last year's Oscars.

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Meanwhile, stars were arriving to the shores of the Lido in waves...

...

Wednesday's opening gala of the festival, which runs through September 8...

...

Despite a preponderance of British and US entries this year -- totalling nine of the 22 starting candidates for the Golden Lion in the main competition -- the festival also boasts a sizeable Asian contingent.

Festival director Marco Mueller let drop Wednesday that a 23rd "surprise film" to be screened next week will be from an Asian country, specifying only that it is a country other than China, South Korea or Japan.

"Only from Asia do we have that special kind of present," Mueller said, adding: "It will be a brand new film -- he's still mixing it -- by an Asian master."

All 23 of the films in competition will be world premieres, a feat achieved only once before -- last year.

Another 22 films will vie for prizes in the avant-garde Horizons and Horizons Documentaries categories, while 13 will be screened out of competition.

...

Chinese director Zhang Yimou, who won Golden Lions for "The Story of Qiu Ju" (1992) and "Not One Less" (1999), will head the jury made up of directors only, as was the case with the festival's 50th anniversary.

All but six of the 57 films will be world premieres, including 15 of the 19 American selections.

- AFP /ls

Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/entertainment/view/297051/1/.html


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Entertainment News

'Atonement' kicks off 75th anniversary Venice film festival

Posted: 2007 August 30, 0215 hrs

VENICE, Italy - British psychological drama "Atonement", starring Keira Knightley, opened the 75th anniversary Venice film festival on Wednesday.

With a preponderance of British and US entries this year, the festival will also provide a first glimpse of the new erotic spy thriller from Oscar-winning Taiwanese director Lee Ang.

Lee joined "Atonement" director Joe Wright, Knightley and co-star James McAvoy on the red carpet for the gala opening of the prestigious film fest, the world's oldest.

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Ang Lee was to unveil "Se, Jie" (Lust, Caution), set in Shanghai in the 1940s and based on a short story by Eileen Chang.

"No story of Eileen Chang's is as beautiful or as cruel as 'Se, Jie,'" said Lee, whose "Brokeback Mountain" took the top prize in Venice in 2005.

Although this year marks the 75th year of La Mostra's existence it is the 64th festival here since some war years were skipped.

All 22 of the films in competition will be world premieres, a feat achieved only once before -- last year.

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But the programme remains true to its traditional eastward orientation.

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Another 22 films will vie for prizes in the avant-garde Horizons and Horizons Documentaries categories, while 13 will be screened out of competition during the festival, which runs through September 8.

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Chinese director Zhang Yimou, who won Golden Lions for "The Story of Qiu Ju" (1992) and "Not One Less" (1999), will head the jury.

All but six of the 57 films will be world premieres, including an unusually large number of the 19 American selections: 15.

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- AFP /ls

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Ang Lee returns to Chinese-language filmmaking

2007 August 31, 15:00 WST

As effortlessly as film director Ang Lee swings between American and Chinese cinema, he has just as easily been caught up in political tensions between his native Taiwan and mainland China.

Lee returned to the Venice Film Festival on Thursday, two years after winning the top prize with “Brokeback Mountain,” with an erotic spy thriller set against the backdrop of Japanese-occupied Shanghai during World War II.

“Lust, Caution” was originally tagged as a Taiwanese film, but the designation was later changed to Taiwan, China — angering Taiwan, which said it makes it appear the island is part of mainland China.

Lee called the change “unfortunate”, but was at a loss to explain it.

“I don’t really have much to say except that it has been changed from one to the other. If you can find out what’s going on, please let me know,” Lee told a news conference. “I just hope you enjoy the movie and let the movie speak for itself. You know where I come from.”

The organizers said the country designation is decided by a movie’s producers, and that they would change the listing on Lee’s film if all the producers involved agreed.

China and Taiwan split amid civil war in 1949, but Beijing still considers self-ruled Taiwan as its territory and has threatened to retake it by force.

Both China and Taiwan view Lee as their own — and it is easy to see how China would find pleasing nationalistic sentiments expressed in “Lust, Caution,” which is vying for the top prize.

In the film, an idealistic young acting troupe in Hong Kong driven by patriotic fervour drafts a naive plot to assassinate a Chinese official collaborating with the Japanese during World War II. Their star performer, Wang Jiazhi, played by newcomer Tang Wei, delves into the role of seductress as an escape from the emptiness of her father’s abandonment and mother’s death.

Her pursuit of the cruel and aloof Mr Yi, portrayed by Hong Kong actor Leung Chiu-wai, takes her from Hong Kong to Shanghai at the height of the Japanese occupation — and her deception becomes her reality.

“Only by pretending, can she reach the other side, that true self,” Lee said.

The movie, based on a novella by the famed Chinese writer Eileen Chang, also features Joan Chen from “The Last Emperor” and Chinese-American pop star Leehom Wang.

Lee, who was born and raised in Taiwan before moving to the United States in 1978, said hopping between two worlds as a filmmaker has moulded his cinematic sense.

“Actually going to the States and making American movies and (then) going back helped me understand that the romanticized China that I grew up with being told about by my parents was somewhat different than what I see today,” Lee said.

He said he feels much more freedom in the Taiwanese-Hong Kong film industry “in terms of film language” — which in turn has influenced his American films.

“Lust, Caution,” which contains explicit sexuality, has been given the most restrictive NC-17 label in the United States, banning viewers under 17.

The film also does not shrink from a graphic portrayal of violence. In a film era when special effects make death easy to underestimate, a scene where the students follow through on their threat to murder shows just how messy killing a human being actually can be.

Lee said he hoped that NC-17 designation would not discourage audiences from seeing his latest film.

“We hope to send the message in the US that NC-17 is a respectable category and that it’s not pornography. It’s just unsuitable for children,” Lee said upon arrival at the Venice airport.

With a running time of two hours and 36 minutes, Lee said a shorter version would be made available in China. He did not say if the Chinese censors asked for any cuts.

The movie is due out in the US at the end of September.

VENICE

Source: http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=23&ContentID=39107

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Movies

Ang Lee's spy thriller restricted in US

2007 August 30, 18:30 WST

Oscar-winning director Ang Lee says his new spy thriller Lust, Caution has received the most restrictive NC-17 rating in the US, but he hopes the movie will change public perception that the category is reserved for pornography.

"In the past, NC-17 movies were equated with pornographic movies. Most movie theatres don't show them," Lee said at the Venice airport after arriving to attend the Venice Film Festival, where Lust, Caution is competing for the top Golden Lion prize.

"We hope to send the message in the US that NC-17 is a respectable category and that it's not pornography. It's just unsuitable for children," Lee said.

Footage of the interview was posted on the Chinese news Web site Sina.com on Thursday.

The NC-17 rating - the most restrictive rating in the US - bans viewers under 17.

Lust, Caution, based on a short story by famed Chinese writer Eileen Chang, is about a group of patriotic students who plot to assassinate the intelligence chief in the Japanese-backed Chinese government during the World War II era.

Hong Kong actor Leung Chiu-wai plays the intelligence official Mr Yi, while Chinese newcomer Tang Wei plays the Chinese student Wang Jiazhi, who seduces Yi to pave way for the assassination. The movie also features Joan Chen from The Last Emperor and Chinese-American pop star Leehom Wang.

Hollywood trade publication Variety reported earlier that the movie, which hasn't been released, features lovemaking from "provocative" sexual positions, implied oral sex, and full female frontal nudity.

Lee said, however, China, which doesn't have a ratings system, and his native Taiwan have cleared the movie. He said Taiwanese censors didn't ask for any edits.

"Taiwan is more open than the US these days," he said.

Lee said a shorter version of the movie will be shown in China. He didn't say if Chinese censors asked for any cuts.

Lee distanced himself from the controversy over the country label for Lust, Caution, a US-China-Taiwan co-production. The Taiwanese government has criticised Venice organisers for listing the Taiwanese involvement of the film as from "Taiwan, China," which suggests the self-ruled island is part of mainland China.

Venice organisers say the movie's producers decided how the movie is identified.

China and Taiwan split amid civil war in 1949 but Beijing still claims Taiwan as its territory and has threatened to retake it by force.

"The (Taiwan) government can protest. We still have to sell our movie ... My responsibility is to make a good movie and to let the world see it," he said.

The Venice event started Wednesday and ends Saturday, Sept 8.

Lee, renowned for his Oscar-winning films Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Brokeback Mountain, grew up in Taiwan before leaving for the US in the late 1970s, but both Taiwan and China view Lee as their own.

Lee won a best director Oscar for Brokeback Mountain in 2006.

AP

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Ang Lee tackles forbidden love in steamy new film

By Mike Collett-White

VENICE — Oscar winner Ang Lee, director of gay cowboy classic "Brokeback Mountain," returns to the theme of forbidden love with a sexually explicit thriller set in the teeming streets of 1940s Shanghai.

"Lust, Caution" is based on a short story by Eileen Chang, and follows a group of revolutionary students who hatch a plot to assassinate a powerful political figure who is collaborating with occupying forces during the Sino-Japanese war.

First-time actress Tang Wei portrays the young woman who agrees to ensnare the sinister figure, played by one of Asia’s biggest screen stars Tony Leung.

The movie is in the main competition at the Venice film festival, where Lee won the Golden Lion award with "Brokeback Mountain" in 2005 and went on to garner eight Oscar nominations.

Media attention ahead of the new movie’s release this year will focus on the long, acrobatic and sometimes disturbing sex scenes between the main characters, which Lee hinted were real.

When asked in Venice about the authenticity of the sex, he replied: "Did you see the movie? Then why do you ask?"

In a recent interview Lee described his new film as "a scary place," and "like hell." But although lust is used to lure a man into a dangerous trap, love’s power also offers a glimmer of hope to characters caught in a world of violence and fear.

"Lust, Caution" marks the Taiwan-born director’s return to Chinese-language drama after several English films made in the West. He said his position as someone who works in Asia and Hollywood had helped his career.

"Being in between two worlds really helped me understand both cultures, the Western culture and particularly my own cultural roots," Lee told reporters in Venice, where the film was having its world premiere later on Thursday.

East and West meet in "Lust, Caution," with a character visiting a cinema and watching a 1940s English-language classic and a poster for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1941 thriller "Suspicion" appearing on the wall.

Lee, who also made "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," said he had to expand on Chang’s original story, which was only 28 pages long, for the plot of his two-and-a-half hour film.

"The novel had to be just a starting point and not the destination," he said. "I had to get outside the novel, but being faithful to what she wrote, to what she said."

The story partly reflects Chang’s real-life story, in that she fell in love with a man who was labeled a traitor for collaborating with the Japanese.

In the United States, the film has been given an NC-17 rating, the Hollywood Reporter said, meaning no one under 17 will be admitted and limiting its box office potential.

Just before the Venice film festival opened on Wednesday, Taiwan protested after "Lust, Caution" was labeled as coming from "Taiwan, China" on Web sites promoting the event.

China has seen self-ruled Taiwan as part of its territory since the island broke away after civil war in 1949, and seeks to lower Taiwan’s profile by asking sports and cultural organizations to add "China" to Taiwan entries.

Lee skirted the issue, when asked his opinion.

"If you can find out what’s going on, please let me know," he said through an interpreter, referring to the confusion surrounding the description.

– Reuters

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2007 September 01

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Chinese actress Tang Wei and actor Wang Lee-hom arrive at the Cinema Palace in Venice August 30, 2007. Tang and Wang star in director Ang Lee's movie "Lust, Caution" which is showing at the Venice Film Festival.

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2007 August 30

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"Lust, Caution" Gives Way to "Sun" in National Day Holiday

2007 September 01
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The mainland public release date for Ang Lee's spy epic "Lust, Caution" will be postponed by one month to October 26, which means that it won't attend the National Day Holiday box office competition with "The Sun Also Rises", scheduled to be released on September 21.

The Sohu Entertainment quoted Gao Jun, chief of the Beijing New Film Association, as saying that the production company of the film has informed them of the postpone. But it didn't give the exact reason for it, according to Gao.

The latest opus of Ang Lee, "Lust, Caution", held its world premiere in Venice on August 31, and won unanimous applause from the media and the audience. It has recently been given an NC-17 rating in the United States, signifying that admission to the film will not be granted to anyone under the age of 17. And some reports have suggested that some of sex scenes would be cut when it opens in Chinese theatres.

Meanwhile, actor-turned-director, Jiang Wen's third directorial work "the Sun Also Rises", will be screened during Golden Week, along with many other domestically-produced movies, such as "Invisible Wings" and "Hu Tong Li De Yangguang" or "Sunshine in the Alley".

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2007 September 02

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ONLY IN HOLLYWOOD

Ang Lee’s ‘Lust’-ful Venice entry sets screen aflame
Gets NC-17 rating in US

By Ruben V. Nepales
Inquirer
Last updated 11:51 p.m. (Manila time) 2007 September 01

VENICE, ITALY—The Venice Film Festival opened Wednesday with “Atonement,” which reunites director Joe Wright with his “Pride & Prejudice” star, Keira Knightley.

An opening night gala dinner followed at the Hotel Excelsior and was capped by fireworks.

While Keira dazzled the red carpet photographers in a peach gown and her film received a strong reception at the Palazzo del Cinema, Ang Lee’s entry, “Lust, Caution,” earned raves at its first press screening at the Palazzo del Casino.

A sumptuous, masterful piece of cinema, “Lust, Caution” evokes the languid movies of its period setting, the 1940s. The movie has been making news because it received a rare, restrictive NC-17 rating in the US owing to its graphic sexual scenes featuring Tony Leung and Tang Wei. The torrid, full nudity scenes in this Shanghai spy drama come late in the movie but when they do, they set the screen ablaze.

In the film adapted from a short story by Eileen Chang, Tang plays a patriotic student and stage actress who seduces the intelligence boss (Tony) of China’s Japan-supported government during World War II. Her nationalistic group plans to assassinate Tony’s character. As Tang succeeds in baiting Tony into a relationship and as they test each other’s wills and motives, their sexual calisthenics involving various Kama Sutric sexual positions intensify.

But those scenes do not overshadow Ang’s excellent evocation of the era and the uniformly first-rate performances of the cast which includes Joan Chen and Wang Lee Hom.

Source: http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/entertainment/entertainment/view_article.php?article_id=86077

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2007 September 02

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Ang Lee's LUST, CAUTION Premiered in Venice

2007 August 30

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We are all waiting for reviews to pop up...

People from the Chinese language press are almost overwhelmingly praising the film. Derek Elley from Variety writes "too much caution and too little lust squeeze much of the dramatic juice out of Ang Lee's Lust, Caution, a 2-hour period drama that's a long haul for relatively few returns," Ray Bennett from The Hollywood Reporter says "brings to main what soldiers say about war: that it's long periods of boredom relieved by moments of extremely heightened excitement," Dan Fainaru claims "it promises much more than it actually delivers," and "had Lee accepted that his film is about the conflict between duty and desire, and worked smoothly on this premise, this could have been a far more focused and precise film," Roderick Conway Morris from The International Herald Tribune says "the film is grueling to watch and some audiences may find very little in the way of recognizable 'love' in this supposed 'love story'," and Boyd van Hoeij blogs at european-films.net that it "is an uncompromising and incredibly seductive piece of filmmaking that is too long but has so many good elements going for it that it is hard to really care that on certain points the director seems to have thrown caution to the wind" and "acting and technical credits are more than first-class and newcomer Wei Tang, starring alongside veteran Tony Leung, is simply riveting."

Bear it in mind, it appears Ang Lee has done a faithful adaptation of Eileen Chang's original short story, which is only known among the Chinese. The title "Lust, Caution" and the MPAA's NC-17 rating could also be very misleading.

(Thanks to "dwhudson" of GreenCine Daily [http://daily.greencine.com/].)

Review by Derek Elley, Variety: http://www.variety.com/VE1117934527.html
Review by Ray Bennett, The Hollywood Reporter: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film/reviews/article_display.jsp?&rid=9696
Review by Dan Fainaru, Screen Daily: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film/reviews/article_display.jsp?&rid=9696
Review by Roderick Conway Morris, The International Herald Tribune: http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/30/arts/fmreview31.php?WT.mc_id=rssarts
Review by Boyd van Hoeij, european-films.net: http://european-films.net/content/view/838/118/

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2007 September 05

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2007 September 05

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"Five Deadly Venoms" Gets All-Star Makeover

2007 September 06
10:19:24
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The 1978 kung fu classic from Hong Kong, "Wu Du", or "Five Deadly Venoms" - listed as number 11 on Entertainment Weekly Magazine's "Top 50 Cult Movies" - will be brought back to silver screen in an English-language remake to be directed by Kirk Wong.

A similar plot to the original work will be retained: a dying kung fu master instructs his last student, played by Hong Kong actor Edison Chen, to check on the whereabouts of five former pupils, each of whom has learnt a special venomous style of kung fu, and to kill evil along the way.

The setting of the story will be changed from ancient China to a modern imaginary city. And a female role, to be played by ex-model Maggie Q, will be introduced as one of the five pupils, supplementing the former all-man team.

The director is eyeing off "Lust, Caution" star Lee-Hom Wong, kung du actor Wu Jing, pop star Huang Xiaoming and singer RZA of the US rap group Wu-Tang Clan---who is a mega fan of kung fu and the 1978 film---to play the other four pupils.

The film is scheduled to start shooting in October.

Source: http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/09/06/1221@270583.htm

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Lee-Hom Wang: "Lust, Caution" Does "Change Me"

2007 September 05
21:33:47
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Lee-Hom Wang at a press conference promoting his latest album "Change Me," in Beijing on Tuesday, September 4, 2007.
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Chinese American musician and up-and-coming actor Lee-Hom Wang says filming for Ang Lee's "Lust, Caution" has benefited him enormously, even for his music.

The singer-songwriter said at a Beijing press conference on Tuesday that "Lust, Caution" has helped him grow in his acting career, while bring him inspirations for his latest album, entitled "Change Me."

Just wrapped up his Venice tour, where Wang promoted the Golden Lion-competing film at the Venice International Film Festival, the singer was in Beijing promoting his own music work.

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2007 September 06

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Wang Lee Hom's Event:

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2007 September 07

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2007 September 08

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Entertainment

HK pop star records Ang Lee movie song

2007 September 08, 16:23 WST

Oscar-winning Taiwanese director Ang Lee has chosen veteran Hong Kong pop singer Jacky Cheung to record the theme song to Lee's spy thriller Lust, Caution, a news report said Saturday.

Taiwan's China Times newspaper quoted Cheung's manager, Chan Suk-fun, as saying Lee's staff approached Cheung while Lust, Caution was being filmed.

"Jacky listened to the song and thought it was quite good, so he recorded it," Chan said, according to the report on China Times' Web site.

The report did not identify the song or who wrote it. It will be played during the film's closing credits, the report said.

Lee's assistant did not immediately respond to e-mailed questions about the song. Calls to Cheung's Hong Kong offices went unanswered.

Lust, Caution, based on a short story by famed Chinese writer Eileen Chang, is about a group of patriotic students who plot to assassinate the intelligence chief in the Japanese-backed Chinese government during the World War II era.

The movie marks Lee's return to Chinese-language film after the success of the gay romance Brokeback Mountain, which won him last year's Oscar for best director.

Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai plays the intelligence official Mr. Yi, while newcomer Tang Wei plays the Chinese student Wang Jiazhi, who seduces Yi to pave way for the assassination. The movie also features Joan Chen from The Last Emperor, and Chinese-American pop star Leehom Wang.

The movie has drawn attention because of its explicit sex scenes. It received the strictest US rating of NC-17, which bans viewers younger than 17.

Separately, manager Chan was quoted as saying Cheung, one of Chinese pop's biggest acts, is recovering from a cold that forced him to cancel the last two shows of his recent concert series in Hong Kong last week.

Chan said Cheung, currently in the middle of a world tour, performed as scheduled in the northeastern Chinese city of Changchun.

AP

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2007 September 09

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Wang Lee Hom's Event:

Sunday, 2007 September 09
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2007 September 09

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2007 September 09

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2007 September 10

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2007 September 10

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2007 September 10

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2007 September 11

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2007 September 13

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POP STOP

By Ho Yi
STAFF REPORTER
Friday, 2007 September 14, Page 14

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Aboriginal diva A-mei consolidated her reign over the Mando-pop music firmament with a concert last Saturday that reportedly attracted 30,000 fans. That figure should put her rumored erstwhile lover, Wang Lee-hom, to shame as his concert on the same day managed to muster only 5,000 concertgoers.

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Lee's Lust, Caution gets strictest rating

MinLee

Saturday, 2007 September 15

Oscar-winning director Ang Lee's new spy thriller Lust, Caution has received a Category III rating - the strictest available - from Hong Kong censors, likely over its explicit sex scenes, a publicist said on Friday.
Lust, Caution, which won the top Golden Lion prize at the Venice Film Festival last week, has drawn attention because of its strong sexuality.

The movie, based on a short story by famed Chinese writer Eileen Chang, is about a group of patriotic students who plot to assassinate the intelligence chief in the Japanese-backed Chinese government during the World War II era. Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai plays the intelligence official Mr Yi, while newcomer Tang Wei plays the Chinese student Wang Jiazhi, who seduces Yi to pave way for the assassination.

The movie, which is set for release in Hong Kong on September 25, also features Joan Chen from The Last Emperor and Chinese-American pop star Leehom Wang.

The sex scenes involving Leung and Tang have become a hot topic among movie fans.

Hollywood trade publication Variety reported earlier that the movie features lovemaking from "provocative" sexual positions, implied oral sex and full female frontal nudity. Censors have rated it Category III, which bans viewers younger than 18, said Cyrus Man, a publicist for the movie's Hong Kong and China distributor, Edko Films.

Man said the rating was expected.

Meanwhile, Leung was quoted on Friday as saying he didn't hold back when shooting the sex scenes with Tang.

"These scenes are very important. They weren't designed to generate buzz. I portrayed those scenes as artistic performance. I couldn't hold myself back too much," Leung told Apple Daily newspaper.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Source: http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=18&art_id=53465&sid=15385094&con_type=1

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2007 September 16

[kczhu]

Lee-Hom Wang Promotes No Car Day in Taiwan

2007 September 17
11:58:12
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Pop singer Lee-Hom Wang rides a bicycle during a No-Car-Day campaign in Taipei, on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2007. About 12, 000 local residents participated in the environmental protection campaign.
[Photo: Tungstar/Sina.com.cn]

Source: http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/09/17/1221@274750.htm

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2007 September 16

[kczhu]

'Lust, Caution' takes relationships to the extremes

By Ho Yi
STAFF REPORTER
Friday, 2007 September 21, Page 13

Lust, Caution

The lust factor of this movie has been covered from every angle in the media. Monday, Ang Lee's Lust Caution hits the big screen in Taiwan and audiences will have the chance to cut through the sensationalist claptrap and judge the movie's merits for themselves.

Although Lee earned his second Venice Film Festival Golden Lion in three years for this espionage thriller, the first was Brokeback Mountain in 2005, more attention has been given to the movie's steamy scenes and its NC-17 rating awarded in the US.

The adaptation of Eileen Chang's book of the same name is peppered with generic elements, but employs a unique narrative structure to tell the story as only Lee can: by searching for the human factor behind the plot and profound truths.

The story opens in Japanese-occupied Shanghai in 1942. A group of wealthy, idle wives of high-ranking men plays mahjong at the home of Mr. Yee (Tony Leung), who is head of the collaborationist Chinese government's secret service. Among Mrs. Yee's (Joan Chen) mahjong partners is Mrs. Mak, the bored young wife of a businessman.

Rewind to Hong Kong, 1938. Mrs. Mak is an unassuming college student named Wang Jia-zhi, abandoned by her father who fled to the UK. After joining a theater troupe that performs nationalistic plays, Wang Jia-zhi realizes she has found her calling in acting and is gifted with the ability to move and inspire audiences.

Prompted by the troupe's patriotic leader Kuang Yumin (Wang Lee-hom), the actors decide to serve their country by assassinating Yee, a collaborator. Wang Jia-zhi becomes Mrs. Mak and uses her talents as well as womanly charms to seduce Mr. Yee.

The operation fails with unexpected bloodshed, forcing Wang Jia-zhi to flee.

Extremes

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Fast forward to Shanghai, 1941. Wang Jia-zhi is reenlisted by Kuang, now part of the organized resistance, to reprise her earlier role. As she is drawn deeper into the liaison, Wang's real identity is gradually subsumed by her assumed one, to the point that even she has difficulty discerning one from the other.

Throughout the film, Rodrigo Prieto's lush cinematography captures the slightly romanticized charm of Shanghai in the 1940s - earning the Mexican cinematographer top honors at Venice. Historically correct costumes and production design set a tone that is beautifully illuminated by Alexandre Desplat's melancholy score.

As the early part of the film, in which grand ideas of patriotism and loyalty play significant roles, fades into the background, the real drama of the film gets off the blocks when Wang Jia-zhi's sexuality is played out in the shadow of a patriarchal society and her search for a real self begins.

Self-identity is a recurrent theme in many of Lee's films, and Lust, Caution highlights the director's sober observations about human nature - this time the nature of a woman whose identities shift in the roles she plays for others. Wang Jia-zhi convinces Mr. Yee that she is Mrs. Mak by actually becoming Mrs. Mak, and while she is gradually consumed by playing the part, she is simultaneously empowered by the palpable feelings it generates within her, Mr Yee' s belief in who she is and the sexual intimacy and love that ensue.

The much talked-about sex scenes appear halfway through the film when Lee has developed the personalities of the main characters. From brutal to tender to overwhelming, every instance of their sexual encounters serves the narrative. The initial sex scene sees Wang Jia-zhi engage in a series of calculated 1940s movie moves, but to both Wang Jia-zhi's and the audience's surprise, Mr. Yee turns the scene into a sadomasochistic episode in which his truer nature - one that is necessary to accomplish his job - is revealed.

Unquestionably graphic and visceral, these scenes are crucial to understanding the shifting emotional dynamics between the characters. Wang Jia-zhi's destructive path is skillfully examined by Lee's meticulous control of the complicated tangle of love, hatred and lust.

While American-born pop star Wang Lee-hom can easily be forgotten with his comparatively bland performance, it is, perhaps, unfair to criticize his performance too sharply considering who he is up against. Novice Tang Wei is pleasantly believable - growing from a shy young woman to a seductress. Leung reminds the audience that he is one of the world's best actors with subtle expressions and nuanced gestures - and delivers emotionally charged moments with precision and (need we say?) passion. Veteran actress Chen also turns in a fine performance, helping to bring to life the social circle that revolves around idle gossip at the mahjong table.

Director Lee's monumental talent lies not only in the diversity of his filmmaking, but his ability to make his characters believable. In the case of Lust Caution, he succeeds in creating a human drama with the rich layers of complicated emotions that typifies Chang's works. Yet to fans of the beloved novelist, no film adaptation can ever perfectly represent the intricate and sublime world of Chang.

Film Notes

Lust, Caution

DIRECTED BY: Ang Lee

STARRING: Tang Wei as Wang Jia-zhi; Tony Leung as Mr. Yee; Joan Chen as Mrs. Yee; Wang Lee-hom as Kuang Yumin

Language: In Mandarin, Shanghainese, Cantonese, English and Japanese with both English and Chinese subtitles

RUNNING TIME: 156 MINUTES

TAIWAN RELEASE:

Premiers on MONDAY EVENING; general release IS ON Tuesday

Source: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2007/09/21/2003379834

[kczhu]

Caution the Focus for Lee's New Movie

2007 September 21
16:25:56
Shanghai Daily

Ang Lee's much-anticipated movie "Lust, Caution" is scheduled to hit mainland screens on October 26, about a month later than its North American release.

The mainland version will have seven minutes of cuts to the 156-minute full version, including some explicit sex scenes between Tang Wei and Tony Leung as well as violent scenes played by Chinese-American star Lee-Hom Wang.

The film received the strictest United States rating of "NC-17," which bans viewers younger than 17.

"It's still hard to anticipate if the cuts will influence the art film's performance at the box office," said Wu Hehu, deputy director of Shanghai United Cinema Lines, the city's largest movie-house chain.

He said it hadn't been decided whether Lee and the cast will arrive in town to promote the film. According to Li Lan, manager of Yonghua Cinema, the movie's international success is a big impetus for domestic ticket sales.

"The film will not face much competition from big-budgeted commercial films in October," she said. "It will be a hit."

Set in 1940s Shanghai, the film is based on Eileen Chang's novel and centers on a group of revolutionary students bent on killing a powerful political figure who collaborates with invading Japanese forces during World War II.

It recently won the prestigious Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

Source: http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/09/21/63@276516.htm

[kczhu]

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2007 September 23

[kczhu]

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2007 September 23

[kczhu]

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2007 September 23

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2007 September 24

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2007 September 24

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2007 September 23

[kczhu]

U STARS

Date of Issue: 2007 September 21

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[kczhu]

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2007 September 24

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2007 September 25

[kczhu]

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2007 September 25

[kczhu]

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2007 September 25

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2007 September 25

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2007 September 24

[kczhu]

Ang Lee 'satisfied' new film is shown in entirety

Tuesday, 2007 September 25
The China Post news staff

Popular film director Ang Lee will receive a US$300,000 award from the Government Information Office today for his prize-winning picture "Lust, Caution."

A naturalized U.S. citizen, Lee came to Taipei from Hong Kong Monday to receive the award and attend the premier of the film that won this year's Golden Lion award of the Venice International Film Festival.

Lee, born in Taiwan, attended the ceremony for the premier of "Lust, Caution" at the Grand Formosa Regent Taipei Hotel yesterday evening.

The premiere of the film, based on the short novel of the same title by popular writer Ailing Chang, took place at a movie house opposite the hotel.

It is about a woman falling in love with a spy in Japanese-occupied Shanghai during the Second World War.

Prior to the premiere, Lee and his stars in "Lust, actress Tang Wei and actor Lee-hom Wang, signed more than 700 copies of Ailing Chang's book at an Eslite Bookstore outlet in Taipei.

All fans lining up for the autograph were satisfied.

The GIO began to hail Ang Lee as the "glory of Taiwan" after he won an Oscar for his "Brokeback Mountain." It plans to have "Lust, Caution" represent Taiwan in next year's Oscar for the best foreign language film.

Lee said he was "very much satisfied" that "Lust, Caution" was shown in its entirety in Taipei.

The movie has several bold sex scenes featuring Tang and Tony Leung.

Source: http://www.chinapost.com.tw/headlines/2007/09/25/49225/Ang%2DLee.htm

[kczhu]

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From left: Actress Tang Wei, director Ang Lee and actor Wang Lee-hom pose for photographers during a book-signing event for Lee's new film "Lust, Caution" in Taipei yesterday.
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Director anxious about new film's Taipei premiere

Ang Lee admits being 'most solicitous' of response from Taiwanese audience

By Hermia Lin
Taiwan News, Staff Reporter
Page 3
2007 September 25, 01:07 a.m.

Taiwanese-born director Ang Lee, along with the lead actor and actress from his new film "Lust, Caution," held a book signing ceremony in Taipei yesterday that drew hundreds of devoted movie fans.

"The movie will be shown in many countries in the world. But I am most solicitous of the response from my Taiwanese audience. I really hope you will like the film," said the 52-year-old director with a sincere smile.

Lee's "Lust, Caution" won the Venice Film Festival's top prize, the Golden Lion, earlier this month. The film opened in local theaters last night.

Lee, who came across as humble and genuine in his public appearance yesterday, said he often gets nostalgic and has reservations when he returns home and cared too much about how local audiences would react to the film.

"I spent more than a year to make the film, which I thought was very challenging. The film has generated quite a few controversies. I am anxious about its premiere tonight in Taiwan. I did not sleep well last night," Lee added.

But the director's feelings of apprehension were overwhelmed by the huge crowd waiting to get an autograph from the renowned director. More than 700 people were lined up outside the Eslite bookstore in Taipei yesterday, with local media reporting the first fan started the line at around 7 p.m. Sunday. Many others joined in early yesterday morning.

Also present at the book signing ceremony was the lead actress, Tang Wei
from China. Tang plays a patriotic and naive student named Wang Chia-chi in the movie, which is set in Shanghai in 1938 when many areas of China were occupied by the Japanese. She wants to seduce and assassinate Mr. Yi, the head of the local secret service, who is collaborating with the Japanese occupiers to ferret out and kill his fellow Chinese who are resisting Japanese forces.

Yi is played by Hong Kong actor Tony Leung, who was not present at yesterday's ceremony.

But singer Wang Lee-hom, another leading actor in the movie, was present.

Tang said she was very excited, as it was her first time in Taiwan, and was happy to have had the opportunity to be involved in the making of the film.

"Lee is the best director, he taught us a lot. He will be an unforgettable influence throughout my life," Tang said.

When asked by the host to comment on Wang's performance, Tang said that Wang is a very hard-working actor, and jokingly added that sometimes she got angry to see Wang always so dedicated and intense on the set.

Wang, in return, said that he saw Tang's acting ability grow and mature over the period of time the movie was shot.

"Lee really found a treasure," Wang said, referring to Tang.

The singer/actor said he was truly honored to be able to play a part in the film.

"I learned a lot from Lee; Lee is the best teacher, master, principal. Now every one of us looks forward to seeing the response from Taiwan audiences," Wang said.

Yesterday's signing ceremony ended with Lee, Tang, and Wang signing for nearly 700 fans. Edas Lin, a 25-year-old woman who is a big fan of Lee, told the Taiwan News that she and her boyfriend lined up at about 7 in the morning to meet the director.

"I am very happy to get Lee's autograph. It was worth it to get up so early on the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday and see director Lee," Lin said.

Source: http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/etn/news_content.php?id=527796&lang=eng_news&cate_img=170.jpg&cate_rss=news_Movies_TAIWAN

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2007 September 24

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2007 September 26

[kczhu]

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2007 September 25, 4:01 p.m.

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2007 September 26

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2007 September 26

[justified]

hello commercial lang....
baka gus2 nyong isali c wang lee hom sa contest nmin d2 sa tsinoy....pakicheck nyo n lang itong thread:
http://www.tsinoy.com/forum/showpost.php?p=738264&postcount=109

[kczhu]

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2007 September 30

[in kaos]

Any of you guys watched "Lust, Caution" already? How is it? :)

[xiaotianjie]

I heard papalabas siya dito sa pilipinas this october..OMG!!! ako ang unang pipila para makita yan if ever

[in kaos]

I heard papalabas siya dito sa pilipinas this october..OMG!!! ako ang unang pipila para makita yan if ever

REALLY? YAY! :D Ako rin hehe! Buti na lang ipapalabas sa theaters, it's an Ang Lee movie after all hehe!

[kczhu]

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2007 October 02

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2007 October 03

[in kaos]

I'm gonna buy Lee Hom's Heroes of the Earth Live Concert at yesasia. But I'm not sure what version to get. Anybody here bought it? From the description, theuy seem identical except for the $1 price difference and the HK package weight being lighter. I'm leaning towards the Taiwan version but it also takes a lot more days it takes to ship. For those with experience buying cpop cds/dvds, what do you guys think I should get?

Taiwan Edition:
http://global.yesasia.com/en/PrdDept.aspx/aid-281/section-music/code-c/version-all/pid-1004477533/

Hong Kong Edition:
http://global.yesasia.com/en/PrdDept.aspx/aid-281/section-music/code-c/version-all/pid-1004477795/

[kczhu]

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Director of the movie Ang Lee (C) poses with cast members Tang Wei (L) and Wang Leehom at the premiere of "Lust, Caution" at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, California October 3, 2007. The movie opens in Los Angeles on October 5.
[Agencies]

Source: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/

[kczhu]

LUST, CAUTION

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Publicity Stills of "Lust, Caution"
(Courtesy from BVI)

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In Mandarin with English and Chinese Subtitles
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Director: Ang Lee
Cast: Tony Leung, Wang Li Hom, Joan Chen, Tang Wei
RunTime: 2 hrs 28 mins
Released By: BVI
Rating: NC-16 (Some Intimate Scenes)

Opening Day: 2007 October 04

Synopsis:

The new film from Ang Lee, the Academy Award® winning director of Brokeback Mountain and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. A startling erotic espionage thriller about the fate of an ordinary woman's heart, it is based on the short story by revered Chinese author Eileen Chang, and stars Asian cinema icon Tony Leung opposite screen newcomer, Tang Wei.

Shanghai 1942, The World War II Japanese occupation of this Chinese city continues in force. Mrs. Mak, a woman of sophistication and means, walks into a cafe, places a call, and then sits and waits. She remembers how her story began several years earlier, in 1938 China.

She is not in fact Mrs. Mak, but shy Wong Chia Chia (Tang Wei). With WWII underway, Wong has been left behind by her father who has escaped to England. As a freshman at university, she meets fellow student Kuang Yu Min (Wang Leehom) Kuang has started a drama society to shore up patriotism. As the theatre troupe's new leading lady, Wong realizes that she has found her calling, able to move and inspire audiences-and Kuang. He convenes a core group of students to carry out a radical and ambitious plan to assassinate a top Japanese collaborator, Mr. Yee (Tony Leung).

Each student has a part to play; Wong will be Mrs. Mak, who will gain Yee's trust by befriending his wife (Joan Chen) and then draw the man into an affair. Wong transforms herself utterly inside and out, and the scenario proceeds as scripted until an unexpectedly fatal twist spurs her to flee.

Shanghai, 1941. With no end in sight for the occupation, Wong having emigrated from Hong Kong goes through the motions of her existence. Much to her surprise, Kuang re-enters her life. Now part of the organized resistance, he enlists her to again become Mrs. Mak in a revival of the plot to kill Yee, who as head of the collaborationist secret service has become even more a key part of the puppet government. As Wong reprises her earlier role, and is drawn even closer to her dangerous prey, she finds her very identity being pushed to the limit.

Movie Review:

With a heavy heart, this reviewer is reporting that the original uncensored version of Oscar winner Ang Lee’s new film is probably better than the one that is being screened here in Singapore. And that is not because he is interested in how explicit the extra nine minutes of footages are – he genuinely feels that the anguish and repression of the story would be better expressed with the reportedly steamy sex scenes played out by lead actors Tony Leung and newcomer Tang Wei.

Based on a novel written by Chinese author Eileen Chang in the 1950s, Tang plays a young girl who gets swept into a whirlpool of love, lust and betrayal in 1942 Shanghai. Together with a group of students, she is tasked to carry out a plan to assassinate a Japanese collaborator played by Leung. Feelings for the man become entwined with her call for duty, and the drama ultimately culminates in a heartbreaking tragedy.

The 148-minute (as compared to the original 157-minute) version may be a test of patience to the fidgety movie patron, but the Venice Film Festival Golden Lion winner is like fine wine: take your time to savor the heartrending and intricate emotions, and the takeaway will be worth your while.

Taiwanese director Lee has his cast to thank for this. Wang Leehom’s student leader is accessibly likeable. Critically-acclaimed for his versatility, Leung characterizes his villainous character with an appropriately inward authoritarianism. Tang complements this nicely by playing her young idealistic student role with poignant effect.

Which is why, the film would have fared better with the supposedly animalistic sex scenes to contrast with the two leads’ suppressed feelings. Such pity, because local viewers cannot enjoy the film in its entirety, but this review shall not go into which party should be responsible for this regrettable flaw.

Having helmed other commendable works like Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) back home and Brokeback Mountain (2005) at Hollywood, the seemingly soft-spoken filmmaker definitely knows how to get a fantastic story out of the materials and resources he has on hand. In his latest work, other than his fine exploration of the emotions between characters, he has Mexican Rodrigo Prieto’s (25th Hour, Babel) sturdily grounded cinematography to carry the film forward, American Tim Squyres’ (Hulk, Syriana) simple yet effective editing to coherently tell the tale of espionage, and French Alexandre Desplat’s affecting music underscore to move your heart.

As the movie ends with a quietly tragic scene, this reviewer was left shaken by how the film has stripped bare the vulnerabilities of human emotions. It is with a heavy heart he walks out of the theatre, reflecting on this tragic human nature. And of course, how much more poignant the film would be if he saw the extra nine minutes.

Movie Rating:

4 Stars

(Another fine piece of cinematic gem by Ang Lee)

Review by John Li

Source: http://www.moviexclusive.com/review/lustcaution/lustcaution.htm

[kczhu]

I'm gonna buy Lee Hom's Heroes of the Earth Live Concert at yesasia. But I'm not sure what version to get. Anybody here bought it? From the description, theuy seem identical except for the $1 price difference and the HK package weight being lighter. I'm leaning towards the Taiwan version but it also takes a lot more days it takes to ship. For those with experience buying cpop cds/dvds, what do you guys think I should get?

Taiwan Edition:
http://global.yesasia.com/en/PrdDept.aspx/aid-281/section-music/code-c/version-all/pid-1004477533/

Hong Kong Edition:
http://global.yesasia.com/en/PrdDept.aspx/aid-281/section-music/code-c/version-all/pid-1004477795/

In my opinion, get the one from Taiwan. :)

[in kaos]

Thanks for the tip kczhu :) Anybody has the pinyin and translation of "Rang Wo Qu Nuan" (Cass Phang duet)?

http://stage6.divx.com/user/kim9sun/video/1604566/Wang-Lee-Hom---Rang-Wo-Qu-Nuan

[kczhu]

Lee-Hom Wang Presents Fusion Culture

2007 October 07
13:16:14
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Lee-Hom Wang performs in Nanjing on Saturday, October 6, 2007.

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Elva Hsiao (R) supports Lee-Hom Wang at his Nanjing concert on Saturday, October 6, 2007.

With a huge screen playing scenes from "Lust, Caution" in the background, veteran musician and newbie actor Lee-Hom Wang, was back on stage Saturday night.

At his concert in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing, Lee-Hom Wang sang the song "Luo Ye Gui Gen" (Falling Leaves Return to Roots), which he said was inspired by filming Ang Lee's latest film.

The singer plays a supporting role in the award-winning spy thriller.

The multi-talented Chinese-American musician also distinguished the show by weaving together Western and Chinese elements, combining hip-hop with Kunqu opera, piano with erhu playing, and street dancing with kung-fu.

There was a moment when all the stage lights went out and Lee-Hom Wang called on fans to save energy.

Taiwan pop singer Elva Hsiao also appeared on stage to collaborate with Lee-Hom Wang in singing "Honey Honey Honey."

The three-hour show attracted an estimated of 20,000 fans, some of whom had traveled from as far away as Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea.

Source: http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/10/07/1261@281420.htm

[kczhu]

Thanks for the tip kczhu :) Anybody has the pinyin and translation of "Rang Wo Qu Nuan" (Cass Phang duet)?

http://stage6.divx.com/user/kim9sun/video/1604566/Wang-Lee-Hom---Rang-Wo-Qu-Nuan


Hi in kaos! Sorry, I can't find it....

[in kaos]

Thanks for the Nanjing update! Glad to see Lee Hom back on stage, he's an amazing performer :cool: It'll take a while to get here (lol) but but that's why I'm anxiously anticipating getting my hands on the HOTE concert dvd :D

[kczhu]

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"Lust, Caution" director Ang Lee, center, poses with cast members Tang Wei, left, and Wang Lee-hom before a screening of the film at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, Calif., Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2007.

Source: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/151/story/307853.html

[rajzaichin]

Lee Hom - From singer to evangelist
Credits to http://mediacorptv.sg/ (http://mediacorptv.sg/) More videos and pics can be found there.

October 1, 2007

Here to promote his latest album Change Me, the Taiwanese singer-songwriter does not shy away from picking up after you on the streets, in order to drive home the point of being environmentally-friendly.

Text by Bernice Hoh

If your female friends were missing over the weekend, that’s because they’ve all gone to see Wang Lee Hom!

In town to promote his latest album, Change Me, the singer-songwriter caused quite a pileup at Bishan Junction 8 shopping centre, when more than 2,000 fans cramped into the little outdoor atrium just to see their idol upclose and personal.

Noticeably thinner and looking slightly fatigued, Lee Hom did his part in educating the public on going green when he was here over the weekend.

With the theme of his 12th album revolving around the preservation of the environment, Lee Hom did not waste any time in emphasizing the importance of being environmentally-friendly and conserving energy. It may get a little preachy over time, but the fans sure seemed too engrossed in soaking up his handsome smile to notice anything repetitive.

Getting out of a character is tough…

With the critically acclaimed movie Lust, Caution opening in local cinemas soon, Lee Hom naturally has plenty to talk about his role in Lee Ang’s latest masterpiece. Lee Hom plays a patriotic university student named Kuang Yu Min, and it hasn’t been easy for our musical genius to get out of his 1942 persona.

“Even out of filming, I was still wearing leather shoes and shirt at home, listening to music that Kuang Yu Min would listen to,” Lee Hom confessed.

Thank goodness he stays alone, or his family would sure be freaking out and worrying about Lee Hom’s mental state!

Wang Lee Hom – not too self-conscious to pick up rubbish!

To stress his devotion to his cause, Lee Hom tells us that he is not too caught up with his own fame and glamour to actually pick up litter off the streets!

“In the past, I would silently reproach anybody when I see him litter. Now however, when I see such a thing, I would personally go forward and pick the litter up, then throw it into the rubbish bin,” Lee Hom explained, when asked about his changes since becoming an “ambassador” of environmental awareness.

Wouldn’t this be ill-fitting for his current status? Nope, our musically-talented “environmentalist” doesn’t see any problem in his actions. “On the other hand, it may even be good that the person recognizes me. He may then reflect on his actions and feel embarrassed about littering.”

Goody-Two-Shoes … Not!

Lee Hom may project a good, clean image, but he is not necessarily so! Being portrayed in such a way could be good as he slyly said, “then I’ll be able to do bad things and get away with it!” Of course, he jests.

To further prove he is not any regular boring good boy, Lee Hom tells us that in his university days, he had actually broken into his school canteen with his friends, in the middle of the night, and… had a massive ‘egg fight’!

What did he discover from this little escapade? “It actually hurts a lot being hit by eggs!”

[kczhu]

Pop Stop

By Ho Yi
STAFF REPORTER
Friday, 2007 October 12, Page 14

In other Chairman Chou news, the Mando-pop star donned a cowboy outfit for his latest album Jay Chou on the Run, and unwittingly became a rent boy. According to Chinese-language media, a Web user under the name of Jack is using Chou's photos to peddle sexual services on an English gay Web site, with a pitch line referring to a "large and uncut tool." The service fee is US$85 per hour and around US$400 a night.

That snippet of news and the cowboy look coincide with the star's recent pronouncement in an interview that if he were a woman, he would fall in love with Wang Lee-hom, who is talented, upright and honest.

Those two would make a toothsome couple Pop Stop has to admit.

Source: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2007/10/12/2003382896

[in kaos]

[..]the star's recent pronouncement in an interview that if he were a woman, he would fall in love with Wang Lee-hom, who is talented, upright and honest.

Those two would make a toothsome couple Pop Stop has to admit.

LOL! Jay's in love with Lee Hom :p

[kczhu]

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News: http://udn.com/NEWS/ENTERTAINMENT/ENT1/4056796.shtml

2007 October 17

[in kaos]

When's "Lust, Caution" gonna screen here?

[in kaos]

I saw half of "You are the song in my heart" with Selina Renon [V] yesterday and I kinda squealed seeing it on the first time on TV lol :D I really love the vid and I watch it quite a bit on my Zen! Lee Hom looks so dashing :cool:

[in kaos]

You Are The Song In My Heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LNehxkGGGo

:)

[KENeticGurl]

Hello!

Anyone here already saw the movie "Lust,Caution?" I think its being shown at Shangrila cinema. Just wanted to ask if its good, coz I really wanted to see Lee Hom on screen.:)

[in kaos]

Hello!

Anyone here already saw the movie "Lust,Caution?" I think its being shown at Shangrila cinema. Just wanted to ask if its good, coz I really wanted to see Lee Hom on screen.:)

It's also being shown in Robinsons cinema, Gateway and some other places:
http://guides.clickthecity.com/movies/showtimes.php?id=11215

I wanna watch it too! Maybe on Sunday if I can get my sis to watch with me or next week with a friend at Rob Pioneer since it's close to where I work...

[kczhu]

Lust, Caution to Premiere on Chinese Mainland

2007 October 31
21:31:09
CRIENGLISH.com

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Director Ang Lee (C), cast members Tang Wei (L) and Lee-Hom Wang attend the premiere of "Lust, Caution" in Shanghai on October 31, 2007.
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Taiwan director Ang Lee's spy thriller "Lust, Caution", also this year's Golden Lion winner, is to premiere on the Chinese mainland tonight.

After several times' put-off, the blockbuster will finally roll to mainland theaters midnight Wednesday.

Director Ang Lee is expected to bring cast members Tang Wei and Lee-Hom Wang to Shanghai for the premiere, also the only promotion on the mainland.

The mainland version of the film is 145 minutes long, with several minutes' plot involving sex being scissored.

"Lust, Caution" is vying for this year's Golden Horse Film Awards, which will be announced on December 8 in Taiwan.

The film is based on a short novel of the same name, written by famous Chinese woman author Eileen Chang (Zhang Ailing, 1921-1995).

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Cast members Tang Wei (R) and Lee-Hom Wang attend the premiere of "Lust, Caution" in Shanghai on October 31, 2007.
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American Chinese singer and actor Lee-Hom Wang attends the premiere of "Lust, Caution" in Shanghai on October 31, 2007.
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Source: http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/10/31/1301@289786.htm

[kczhu]

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Mei's Tea Bar

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2007 November 03

[kczhu]

Entertainment
2007 November 04, Sunday
By: Mario E. Bautista
FREEHAND

‘LUST CAUTION’: SLOW BUT ENGROSSING

AS a director, Ang Lee is bent on proving he can meg various film genres from “Ice Storm” and “The Hulk” to “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.” After winning the Oscar for the gay cowboy story, “Brokeback Mountain,” he now comes up with a sex-filled spy story in “Lust, Caution” (dialogue in Mandarin, with English subtitles), based on a story by Chinese writer Eileen Chang. Set during the Second World War, the story opens in 1942 Shanghai to introduce the main characters, then flashes back to 1938 when China was occupied by Japan. The film then jumps again to 1941 and, later to the film’s last scene before the 1938 flashbacks.

The lead character is Wang Chia Chi (Tang Wei), a pretty student whose mother is dead while her father now lives in England where she hopes to follow. In school, she joins the theatre group of idealistic university students in Hong Kong led by Kuang (Wang Lee Hom, a popular Taiwanese popstar) who puts up patriotic plays exhorting the Chinese to fight against the Japanese. Soon, they become more ambitious and actively join the underground resistance movement, making it their mission to assassinate Mr. Yee (Tony Leung), a traitor who collaborates with the Japanese.

Wang is assigned to seduce Mr. Yee so they can eliminate him. She pretends to be the wife or Mr. Mak (Johnson Yuen), who’s allegedly into import-export. As Mak Tai Tai (the Chinese term for Mrs. Mak), she befriends Yee Tai Tai (Joan Chen), the wife of Mr. Yee, and joins them playing mahjong so she can get closer to Mr. Yee himself. Mr. Yee does get attracted to her, but before their affair is consummated, he is suddenly recalled to Shanghai. This first half of the movie ends with a very violent and grisly choreographed murder scene that turns Wang off so she runs away.

Three years pass and Kuang gets in touch with Wang again to continue their interrupted operation. Yee is now the head of the dreaded secret service and should really be eliminated. This time, Wang succeeds in making Yee her lover and the sex scenes caused the movie to get an NC-17 from the MPAA in the U.S. The extended sex scenes are quite graphic and sado-masochistic, but not hardcore porno. The actual intercourse might be fake, but there’s no doubt about the intensity of the actors’ passion while doing them for the camera.

The movie runs for almost two hours and 40 minutes and those who prefer faster paced storytelling will surely get impatient and find Ang Lee’s lingering style quite tedious. We ourselves didn’t get bored by the slow buildup because the lush cinematography by Rodrigo Prieto is just gorgeous (revealing all the warts and blackheads of Tony Leung in close-ups), the musical score by Alexander Desplat is sumptuous, and the detailed production design recreating Hong Kong before all those high-rise buildings grew all over is just awesome.

The movie’s main plot is actually similar to that of “Black Book” by Dutch director Paul Verhoeven, also set in World War II and is likewise about a female lead who also has an affair with an enemy official in Nazi territory. The difference is that “Black Book” is more action-oriented while “Lust Caution” really takes its sweet time to unfold the narrative. “Lust” also goes to town with the sex scenes that aren’t really erotic, unless you go for sado-masochistic stuff. But they truly reveal a lot about the characters, so you can’t just easily conclude that they’re gratuitous indulgences of the director who just wants to show he can also adeptly do heterosexual scenes after “Brokeback.” Ang Lee also pays homage here to Hollywood as Wang just love American films and film clips of old flicks starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman are even shown.

Chinese superstar Tony Leung (“In the Mood for Love”, “Infernal Affairs” on which “The Departed” was based) delivers a good performance as Yee, whose face requires stoicism that betrays no emotion. But it’s newcomer Tang Wei (chosen over thousands of candidates who auditioned) who really shines in a stunning finely nuanced performance that is so engrossing from beginning to end, particularly in an emotionally wrenching scene where she talks about letting Lee into her heart while waiting for her colleagues to blow his brains out.

What we don’t like in the film is that it’s really more caution than lust. As a matter of fact, Wang and her colleagues in the resistance are so cautious that, after a while, we have lost sympathy for that. There are many instances where they can already assassinate Mr. Yee but they’re such slow foots that, in the end, we feel that they do deserve the kind of fate that they get at film’s end, including Wang who seems to have fallen more in love with the diamond ring Yee gave her than with Yee himself.

Source: http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php?issue=2007-11-04&sec=3&aid=37511

[kczhu]

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2007 November 04

[rajzaichin]

It's also being shown in Robinsons cinema, Gateway and some other places:
http://guides.clickthecity.com/movies/showtimes.php?id=11215

I wanna watch it too! Maybe on Sunday if I can get my sis to watch with me or next week with a friend at Rob Pioneer since it's close to where I work...

We already watched it last Sunday at Shangri La Plaza (with Our Home- Philippines members)..Nakakatuwa kse kasama si Lee Hom sa poster..Warning: Di talaga pwede sa minors..tama yung sinabi sa article ni Mario E. Bautista..Nakaka-shock ang sex scenes nila Tony Leung at Tang Wei..Thumbs-up ang acting nila esp. si Lee Hom. He improved a lot..Very natural yung acting niya lalo na dun sa isang napaka-violent na scene ^_^ We never realized na napakalapit pala namin sa screen hahahaha

Kuang Yu Min is soooo cute...

Yung mga gusto pang humabol last day na ata ngayon ng showing..Maganda yung story..

for more info/stories/pics, just drop by Our Home Philippines Forum >>>www.leehom-ph.com/forums :)

[kczhu]

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News: http://1-apple.com.tw/apple/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&Sec_ID=9&ShowDate=20071106&NewsType=twapple&Loc=TP&Art_ID=3966666

2007 November 06

[kczhu]

We already watched it last Sunday at Shangri La Plaza (with Our Home- Philippines members)..Nakakatuwa kse kasama si Lee Hom sa poster..Warning: Di talaga pwede sa minors..tama yung sinabi sa article ni Mario E. Bautista..Nakaka-shock ang sex scenes nila Tony Leung at Tang Wei..Thumbs-up ang acting nila esp. si Lee Hom. He improved a lot..Very natural yung acting niya lalo na dun sa isang napaka-violent na scene ^_^ We never realized na napakalapit pala namin sa screen hahahaha

Kuang Yu Min is soooo cute...

Yung mga gusto pang humabol last day na ata ngayon ng showing..Maganda yung story..

for more info/stories/pics, just drop by Our Home Philippines Forum >>>www.leehom-ph.com/forums :)


Hi rajzaichin! Me too, I wanna watch the movie. Last day na today? Bilis naman.

[kczhu]

Showbiz & Style > Inquirer Entertainment

FROM BOOK TO FILM
Ang Lee’s controversial thriller

Inquirer
Last updated 11:27 p.m. (Manila time) 2007 November 04

MANILA, Philippines – From Ang Lee, the Academy Award-winning director of “Brokeback Mountain” and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” comes what’s bound to be the most controversial film of the year: “Lust, Caution,”winner of the Golden Lion Prize (Best Picture) at the recent Venice Film Festival.

The critically acclaimed film is also Taiwan’s official entry to the Best Foreign Language Film race in next year’s Academy Awards.

A startling erotic espionage thriller about the fate of an ordinary woman’s heart, it is based on the short story “Se, Jei” by revered Chinese author Eileen Chang, and stars Asian cinema icon Tony Leung (“Hero,” “Infernal Affairs”) opposite screen newcomer Tang Wei.

“Lust, Caution” begins in Shanghai, 1942. The World War II Japanese occupation of this Chinese city continues in force. Mrs. Mak, a woman of sophistication and means, walks into a café, places a phone call, and then sits and waits. She remembers how her story began several years earlier, in 1938 China.

She is not in fact Mrs. Mak, but shy Wong Chia Chi (Tang Wei). With the Second World War underway, Wong has been left behind by her father, who has escaped to England. As a freshman at university, she meets fellow student Kuang Yu Min (Wang Leehom). Kuang has started a drama society to shore up patriotism. As the theater troupe’s new leading lady, Wong realizes that she has found her calling, able to move and inspire audiences—and Kuang.

The naively patriotic Kuang convenes a core group of students to carry out a radical and ambitious plan to assassinate a top Japanese collaborator, Mr. Yee (Tony Leung). Each student has a part to play; Wong will be Mrs. Mak, who will gain Yee’s trust by befriending his wife (Joan Chen) and then draw the man into an affair. Wong transforms herself utterly inside and out, and the scenario proceeds as scripted—until an unexpectedly fatal twist spurs her to flee.

With no end in sight for the occupation, Wong—having emigrated from Hong Kong—goes through the motions of her existence. Much to her surprise, Kuang re-enters her life. Now part of the organized resistance, he enlists her to again become Mrs. Mak in a revival of the plot to kill Yee, who as head of the collaborationist secret service has become even more a key part of the puppet government. As Wong reprises her earlier role, and is drawn ever closer to her dangerous prey, she finds her very identity being pushed to the limit …

Beautiful, cruel

“To me, no story of Chan Ailing’s [Eileen Chang] is as beautiful or as cruel as ‘Lust, Caution,’” explains Ang Lee. “She revised the story for years and years—for decades—returning to it as a criminal might return to the scene of a crime, or as a victim might re-enact a trauma, reaching for pleasure only by varying and re-imagining the pain. Making ‘Lust, Caution,’ we didn’t really ‘adapt’ Chan’s work, we re-enacted it, just as her characters act and re-enact their parts.”

Lee continues, “Chan describes the feeling Wong Chia Chi had after performing on stage as a young woman; the rush she felt afterwards, that she could barely calm down, even after a late-night meal with her friends from the theater and a ride on the upper deck of a tram. “When I read that, my mind raced back to my own first experience on the stage, back in 1973 at the Academy of Art in Taipei,” Lee adds. “The same rush of energy at the end of the play I had acted in; the same late-night camaraderie; the same wandering. I realized how that experience was central to Chan’s work, and how it could be transformed into film.

“She understood play-acting and mimicry as something by nature brutal: animals, like her characters, use camouflage to evade their enemies and to lure their prey. But mimicry and performance are also ways we open ourselves, as human beings, to greater experience, to indefinable connections to others, to higher meanings, to art, and to the truth,” Lee concludes.

Opening across the Philippines on Nov. 7, “Lust, Caution” is Focus Features film distributed by Columbia Pictures.

Source: http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/entertainment/entertainment/view_article.php?article_id=98814

[kczhu]

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Wang Lee Hom's Event:

Thursday, 2007 December 06
3:00 p.m.
press conference
Taipei East Road 4, 133, 6th Floor
(02) 27668900

Source: http://1-apple.com.tw/apple/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&Sec_ID=9&ShowDate=20071206&NewsType=twapple&Loc=TP&Art_ID=30044730

2007 December 06

[prettysara]

sayang di ko napanood....may dvd na ba ito?

[kczhu]

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News: http://udn.com/NEWS/ENTERTAINMENT/ENT1/4128502.shtml

2007 December 07

[kczhu]

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2007 December 07

[kczhu]

sayang di ko napanood....may dvd na ba ito?


Hi prettysara! Ako din naghahanap ng DVD. Wala pa akong nakikita.

[rajzaichin]

Hi prettysara! Ako din naghahanap ng DVD. Wala pa akong nakikita.

May nakita na akong pirated dvd..yung friend ko nakabili na pero sabi nya mukhang cut version sya..

[kczhu]

Pop Stop

Compiled By Ian Bartholomew
STAFF REPORTER
Friday, 2007 December 07, Page 14

In other romantic news, Shu Qi is salving the wounds of her reported breakup with Wang Lee-hom with looker Hu Bin. This is certainly a step down-market, but given her record, the tabloids are already speculating whether she is going to make a move on Takeshi Kaneshiro, when she gets in front of the camera again to shoot a new costume drama based on the Chinese classic novel Heroes of the Water Margin. She will be playing Pan Jin-lien, a wily seductress who will, on camera at least, go all out to get her hooks into Kaneshiro.

Source: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2007/12/07/2003391578

[kczhu]

May nakita na akong pirated dvd..yung friend ko nakabili na pero sabi nya mukhang cut version sya..


Hi rajzaichin! Saan niya nabili?

[kczhu]

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2007 December 09

[kczhu]

Stars arrive on red carpet for 44th Golden Horse Awards

(Agencies)
Updated: 2007 December 08, 22:06

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Taiwan actor Wang Lee-hom (L), director Ang Lee (C) and Chinese mainland's actress Tang Wei pose as they arrive on the red carpet for the 44th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei December 8, 2007.
[Agencies]

Source: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-12/08/content_6307663.htm

[kczhu]

"Lust, Caution" wins top Golden Horse honours, Joan Chen gets best actress award
Posted: 2007 December 09 0023 hours

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Taiwanese director Ang Lee (C), actress Tang Wei and actor Wang Leehom arrive at the 44th Golden Horse Awards.

TAIPEI - Taiwanese director Lee Ang's erotic spy thriller "Lust, Caution" swept the top honours at the Golden Horse Film Awards, seen as the Chinese-language "Oscars".

"Lust, Caution," took home seven awards, including the coveted best film, best director, and best actor accolades.

Lee was also recognised as the outstanding Taiwanese filmmaker of the year at the 44th edition of the awards in a glittering ceremony in the Taipei Arena.

"I am really moved by the audience's overwhelming support (of the film) in Taiwan and in Asia. I feel like I am sharing a joint effort with them," Lee said.

The film, called "Se, Jie" in Chinese, also bagged best make-up and costume design, best original film score, best screenplay adaptation for Lee's long-time partner James Schamus and best new performer for Chinese actress Tang Wei.

"Lust, Caution" in September picked up the Golden Lion for best picture at the Venice Film Festival.

Lee, noted for blending elements from the East and West to depict characters struggling to fit into society and live up to family pressure, won the best director Oscar for his groundbreaking gay cowboy drama "Brokeback Mountain" in 2006.

He last won a Golden Horse for directing in 1993 for the family drama "The Wedding Banquet."

Hong Kong star Tony Leung Chiu-wei garnered an unprecedented third best actor title for his performance as a powerful Japanese collaborator in "Lust, Caution," which is set in World War II Shanghai.

He defeated fellow Hong Konger Aaron Kwok, who was also seeking a third best actor gong.

Leung, who was absent from the ceremony, won best actor in 2003 for the hit police thriller "Infernal Affairs" and in 1994 for the love story "Chungking Express."

Chinese-American veteran Joan Chen beat top rival Tang Wei to take her second best actress crown for her performance in "The Home Song Stories."

"I am overwhelmed by the award because there are fewer good roles to choose for a middle-aged (actress) and this award is much more important to me than the previous one" received in 1994, Chen said.

The film depicts the troubled love life of Chen's character after moving to Australia from Shanghai with her two children. It is competing for a best foreign language film Oscar representing Australia next year.

Chinese starlet Fan Bingbing took best supporting actress for her role in the ghost movie "The Matrimony."

Hong Kong's Tong Leung Ka-fai won best supporting actor in "The Drummer," a story about a renegade gangster inspired by Chinese Zen drumming while in hiding.

Meanwhile, Taiwanese pop prince Jay Chou's directorial debut "Secret," depicting a mysterious romance, won best original song and best visual effects awards and was named as outstanding Taiwanese film of the year.

Some 36 films were nominated at this year's Golden Horse Film Awards, which are styled on the US Academy Awards but decided by a jury, as at the Cannes film festival.


List of 2007 Golden Horse film award winners:

Best Picture: (Lust, Caution)

Best Director: Ang Lee (Lust, Caution)

Best Leading Actor: Tony Leung Chiu-wei (Lust, Caution)

Best Leading Actress: Joan Chen (The Home Song Stories)

Best Supporting Actor: Tony Leung Ka-fai (The Drummer)

Best Supporting Actress: Fan Bingbing (The Matrimony)

Best New Performer: Tang Wei (Lust, Caution)

Best Original Screenplay: Tony Ayres (The Home Song Stories)

Best Screenplay Adaptation: Wang Hui Ling, James Schamus (Lust, Caution)

Best Cinematography: Mark Ping Bin Lee (The Matrimony)

Best Visual Effects: Wong Wang Tat, Wong Wang Hin, Cheung Yiu Ming, Donnie Lai (Secret)

Best Art Direction: Anuson Pinyopotjanee (The Detective)

Best Make Up & Costume Design: Pan Lai, Lui Fung Shan (Lust, Caution)

Best Action Choreography: Donnie Yen (Flash Point)

Best Original Film Score: Alexandre Desplat (Lust, Caution)

Best Original Film Song: Jay Chou, Fan Wen Shan (Secret)

Best Film Editing: Zhang Yi Fan, Jiang Wen (The Sun Also Rises)

Best Sound Effects: Tu Duu Chih, Kuo Li Chi, Tang Xiang Zhu (The Most Distant Course)

Best Documentary: Hollywood Chinese (DeepFocus Productions Inc.)

Best Short Film: Fly Out Blue (Jack Shih)

Outstanding Taiwanese Film of the Year: (Secret)

Outstanding Taiwanese Filmmaker of the Year: Lee Ang

Lifetime Achievement Award: Edward Yang (posthumous)

- AFP /ls

Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/entertainment/view/316277/1/.html

[kczhu]

"Lust, Caution" romps home at Golden Horse Awards

Ang Lee's ateamy espionage thriller in eight categories, including best feature film and best director

By Ho Yi
STAFF REPORTER
Sunday, 2007 December 09, Page 17

The 44th Golden Horse Awards ceremony was held at the Taipei Arena last night, attracting the best directors, actors, choreographers and writers of Chinese-language cinema to highlight their achievements over the past year.

The red carpet parade saw Ang Lee lead his pupils Tang Wei, wearing a baby blue dress, a scruffy Wang Lee-hom and members of Lust, Caution’s production team from Hong Kong, France and the US. Wei walked away with the best new performer award for her role in the film.

A deafening round of applause was given to the only South Korean representative at the ceremony, actor Lee Jun Li, who rose to stardom in the role of a hermaphroditic jester from The King and the Clown in 2005. Other scream-inducing stars included Hsiao Jing-teng, an everyday Joe made instant star by the talent show One Million Star and Aaron Kwok, impeccably dressed in a black suit with red cummerbund and silver appliques on his shirt.

Novice actresses Chang Chun-ning and Alice Tzeng from Taiwan lost the best supporting actress award to China’s Fan Bingbing, who was rewarded for playing a vengeful ghost in The Matrimony. This Chinese ghost flick also won the best cinematography award. The top honor came as a surprise to veteran Taiwanese cinematographer Mark Ping-bin Lee, who said he thought the winner would be Mexico-born Rodrigo Prieto, winner of the best cinematography at this year’s Venice Film Festival for his work in Lust Caution.

Hollywood Chinese by Arthur Dong beat out Taiwan’s Exotic Exoticism: Plant Wars, its only contender in the documentary category, to walk away with the trophy for its exposition on the little-known history of Chinese actors and filmmakers in Tinseltown cinema.

In the best supporting actor category, Hong Kong veteran actor Tony Kai-fai Leung beat out the favored 12-year-old Joel Lok, who played Joan Chen’s son in the Home Song Stories. Leung was most notable by his absence.

Favorites included Ang Lee whose erotic spy thriller Lust, Caution received 11 nominations and who was nominated for outstanding Taiwanese filmmaker of the year. Yau Nai-hoi’s collaboration with Johnnie To, Eye in the Sky, in contrast, received only four nominations though his works, which have reshaped Hong Kong gangster flicks, won the best original screenplay gong at the Golden Horse Awards for three consecutive years.

Political maneuvering overshadowed the contest. The withdrawal of Tuya’s Marriage and Blind Mountain, both Chinese films, from the contest hit several raw political nerves in Taiwan. Beijing prohibits works with exclusively Chinese investments from competing in events under the auspices of Taiwan’s Government Information Office (GIO).

Works from Hong Kong have dominated previous editions of the awards, but this year Chinese films took the lead. Many industry observers have expressed misgivings at the dearth of nominations for Taiwanese movies this year. Local productions only received nominations for technical categories, with the exception of actor-turned-director Doze Niu’s directorial debut What on Earth Have I Done Wrong?!, which was nominated for best feature film.

New to the competition, films from Australia and Singapore also made a splash. Just Follow Law, a humorous satire on Singapore’s rigid bureaucracy, and 881, a hilarious musical from Australia made it onto the nomination list in four categories, including best leading actor and best original screenplay.
Based on director Tony Ayre’s own life, Australian production The Home Song Stories garnered seven nominations and won the best original screenplay accolade. The story examines the complicated relationship between a Chinese-Australian son and his mother, a Hong Kong nightclub singer who follows her sailor lover to Australia.

The lifetime achievement award went to Edward Yang, who died of cancer at 59 in June. Yang, whose works are considered by many to be ahead of his time, had made seven feature films after his debut short In Our Time in collaboration with three other emerging directors in 1982. Yang’s feature debut, That Day on the Beach, came out one year later and immediately caught critics’ attention with his poignant study on modern society.

Together with Hou Hsiao-hsien, Yang led the New Wave in 1980s, writing a glorious page in the history of Taiwanese cinema. In 2000, Yang was awarded with the best director trophy at Cannes for his last film Yi Yi: A One and a Two.

Disappointed that his directorial debut Secret failed to secure nominations in major categories, pop star Jay Chou excused himself from the ceremony saying it conflicted with his ongoing concert tour. The box office success scored well, though, in the music department, picking up best original film song.

“The best thing about winning the award is that you get to touch the hand of [award presenter] Tang Wei. The benefit of being a musician is that you get a shot both at the Golden Horse and Golden Melody Awards,” Chou’s music partner Fan Wen-shan said.

The worst red-carpet dresser awards went to Hong Kong actress Charlie Yeung, who looked like a wedding cake in a pink flouncy dress. Taiwan’s Chang Chun-ning caught the fashion police’s attention with a yellow gown that resembled a massive curtain. Teen idol Mike He put his creativity tried to set himself apart from the black-suited male crowd with brown shirt and green boots.

Source: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2007/12/09/2003391886

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2007 December 08

[kczhu]

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2007 December 10

[kczhu]

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2007 December 10

[kczhu]

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2007 December 10

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2007 December 10

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2007 December 10

[kczhu]

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From left: Joan Chen, Ang Lee, Tang Wei, and Wang Lee-hong hold their awards at the 44th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei on Saturday.

Photo by

Associated Press

2007 December 10

Source: http://www.etaiwannews.com/gallery.php?category=45&highlight_id=1339591

[kczhu]

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2007 December 12

[kczhu]

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2007 December 12

[kczhu]

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2007 December 12

[kczhu]

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2007 December 13

[kczhu]

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2007 December 12

[kczhu]

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2007 December 14

[kczhu]

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2007 December 14

[kczhu]

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2007 December 15

[kczhu]

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2007 December 16

[kczhu]

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2007 December 16

[kczhu]

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2007 December 14

[kczhu]

[INTERVIEW] Ang Lee's heart of darkness never skips a beat
By Geoffrey MacNab
THE GUARDIAN, LONDON
Sunday, 2007 December 16, Page 17

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Source: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2007/12/16/2003392848

2007 December 16

[Seventy ako!]

Di ba minsan na siyang na-link kay CoCo Lee?

[kczhu]

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2007 December 23

[kczhu]

Taiwan goes all out for New Year's

Fireworks at Taipei 101, a beach party near Taitung and a floating theater in Kaohsiung are just a few of the activities planned to welcome 2008
By Ho Yi

STAFF REPORTER
Friday, 2007 December 28, Page 13

New Year's Eve is just around the corner. There's so much to do, and so little time to do it. From fireworks displays and star-studded concerts to festivities spiked with local flavors, Taiwan will be full of events where you can watch the ball drop without dropping the ball.

...

Moving south, Kaohsiung City will be hosting a New Year's Eve party that kicks off at 7pm at its Star of the Sea pier area. Performances will feature mainstream and indie acts, including Wang Lee-hom, Soda Green, The Chairman, Faith Yang, Dog G and Cyndi Wang

Source: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2007/12/28/2003394400

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2007 December 28

[kczhu]

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2008 January 02

[linmei23]

i waited up on new year's eve for his performance in tao yuan. it was shown in ctv 5am jan1 already and he was the finale.he sang 3 of his songs. and it was all well worth it http://tsinoy.com/forum/images/smilies/wink.gif

[kczhu]

[POP STOP]

Compiled By Ho Yi
STAFF REPORTER
Friday, 2008 January 04, Page 14

...

In a more touching turn of events, Selina - she of girl band S.H.E - is said to have found herself a new Prince Charming after years of failed romances with showbiz peers such as Alan Luo, Mickey Huang, the aforementioned David Tao and Wang Lee-hom.

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This week's New Year Eve's celebrations once again saw a legion of stars answering the call to see off the old year. Hard-working rockers Champion topped the rest, rushing to five concerts across the nation on the night of Dec. 31, 2007. ABT idol Wang Lee-hom earned second place with three performances, from Tainan to Kaohsiung.

However Wang had it easy. He only had to take the High Speed Rail to his shows. Shin, of Shin Band, however, took a much more circuitous route involving a scooter, Taipei's MRT, the High Speed Rail and, finally, a car to travel from Taipei to Yunlin.

Seeing idols cash in on publicly-funded New Year's bashes is all very well and good, but Pop Stop can't help but wonder just when our city and county governments will come up with a year-end celebration that's more inspiring than a litany of sickly sweet pop tunes.

Source: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2008/01/04/2003395698

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2008 January 06

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2008 January 08

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2008 January 12

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2008 January 11

[kczhu]

Phone Ringing; It's Chou Singing

2008 January 14
11:32:13
CRIENGLISH.com

Pop prince Jay Chou is the most popular voice for mobile phone ring tones and ring-back tones as he received the Most Downloaded Male Singer award on Sunday at a pop charts gala jointly held by China Mobile and Shanghai Media Group.

Unlike other music awards, the pop gala, running in its second year, honors Chinese singers based on the number of paid downloads of their songs by China Mobile users. The company is the world's most subscribed-to mobile phone operator.

Jay Chou won the title with 26,315,089 downloads, almost twice that of the Most Downloaded Female Singer, Jolin Tsai. Tsai's songs were downloaded 14,841,653 times last year, according to China Mobile rankings.

Among the most popular ring tone songs were Chou's "Secret," from the soundtrack of his directorial debut of the same name, Tsai's "36 Tricks of Love," Eason Chan's "Love Transfer" and S.H.E's "Chinese."

Other honorees for the night included Wilber Pan, Lee-Hom Wang, and Chang Chen Yue.

Source: http://english.cri.cn/3086/2008/01/14/1261@313902.htm

[kczhu]

Rock Veteran Rules Beijing Pop Awards

2008 January 24
10:23:47
CRIENGLISH.com

Veteran rock singer Zheng Jun dominated the Beijing Pop Music Awards on Wednesday with five honors, proving his decade-long career is not in a downturn.

Zheng Jun's awards included best singer-songwriter, best producer and best album, for "Chang'an Chang'an."

Hitting the scene in 1994, Zheng Jun reached a career peak in 2002 with an MTV Video Music Award win for his hit "1/3 Dream."

The annual Beijing Pop Music Awards were presented by Beijing Music Radio as a year-end wrap-up of its influential pop music chart.

Each award is shared by a mainland musician and a Hong Kong or Taiwan musician.

At Wednesday's awards, the best singer-songwriter from Hong Kong/Taiwan was Chang Chen Yue, who also shared the best album award with Zheng Jun, for "Yearning Is a Kind of Sickness." The best producer under the Hong Kong/Taiwan category was Lee-Hom Wang, for "Change Me."

Wang Feng (mainland) and Eason Chan (Hong Kong/Taiwan) shared the best male singer awards, and their female counterparts were mainland Super Girl winner Zhang Liangying and Taiwan songstress Angela Zhang.

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Singer Lee-Hom Wang accepts an award at the Beijing Pop Music Awards on Wednesday, January 23, 2008.
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Source: http://english.cri.cn/3086/2008/01/24/1261@317184.htm

[kczhu]

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2008 January 25

[kczhu]

Pop Singers Honored at Sprite Awards

2008 January 27
09:43:07
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Lee-Hom Wang performs at the Sprite Chinese Original Music Awards in Shanghai on Saturday, January 26, 2008.
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Source: http://english.cri.cn/3086/2008/01/27/1261@317923_4.htm

[kczhu]

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2008 January 28

[tomoko]

i always love lee hom since i was in college...... i love his voice very much.......

[kczhu]

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2008 February 01

[linmei23]

kczhu, thanks for the updates!

[kczhu]

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2008 February 15

[kczhu]

Hi linmei, you're welcome!

Hi din to Seventy ako and tomoko!

:)

[kczhu]

Valentine's Day Concert

2008 February 15
20:38:38
CRIENGLISH.com

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Lee-Hom Wang performs at a star-studded Valentine's Day concert in Taiwan on Thursday, February 14, 2008.
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Source: http://english.cri.cn/3086/2008/02/15/1261@323617.htm

[kczhu]

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2008 February 24

[kczhu]

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Wang Lee Hom's event:

2008 March 12, Wednesday
7:30 p.m.
(02) 27182067

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2008 March 12

[kczhu]

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2008 March 13

[tomoko]

parang mataba na ulit c lee hom ngaun unlike before! hes cuter now!

[kczhu]

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2008 March 14, 5:42 p.m.

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2008 March 15

[kczhu]

parang mataba na ulit c lee hom ngaun unlike before! hes cuter now!


Hi tomoko. Oo nga, medyo nagka-laman si Lee Hom. Pero parang mas gusto ko siya ng payat. :) Pero OK pa rin naman siya ngayon, cute pa rin. :)

[tomoko]

it seems we have different opinions on lee hom's weight, but no matter how much weight he gain or lose, i still am his loyal fan! Go lee hom, make more beautiful songs!

[kczhu]

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2008 March 19

[in kaos]

Thanks for the latest pics! And I saw the 02/14 performances on youtube, he did great. Can't expect anything less from him. I hope he's got new music on the pipeline, can't wait can't wait can't wait for new stuff :D

P.S. I watched Lust, Caution yesterday. Lee hom did a good job, so did Tang Wei and Tony Leung :) The movie's superbly done.

[kczhu]

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2008 March 25

[kczhu]

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2008 March 24

[kczhu]

The 8th Chinese Film Media Awards Nominations
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)

2008 March 20

Chinese newspaper Southern Metropolitan Dailey just released the nomination list for the 8th Film Media Awards, the only one which makes all Chinese language films eligible with little bias. The nominees are picked by a committee formed by dozens individuals from the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Among the nominees, there are Lust, Caution, director Ang Lee and all four major cast of the film, Leung Chiu-Wai, Tang Wei, Joan Chen and Wang Lee-Hom. Ironically, Tang Wei has just been "unofficially" sanctioned by the Chinese government (with no legal basis), for her performance in Lust, Caution, which has been accused of "glorifying national traitors" by some powerful people in China. The final winners will be picked by another committee later. Lost in Beijing, just banned in China for "promoting the film with indecent materials" and a few other excuses, also released multiple nominations. Oddly enough, Zhang Jingchu is nominated for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress for the same role in Protege.

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Best New Performer

Kate TSUI (Eye in the Sky - Hong Kong)

TUNG Ming-hsiang (Island Etude - Taiwan)

HUANG Lu (Blind Mountain - The Chinese Mainland)

TANG Wei (Lust, Caution - Taiwan / The Chinese Mainland / USA)

WANG Lee-Hom (Lust, Caution - Taiwan / The Chinese Mainland / USA)

LEE Yat-long (Whispers and Moans - Hong Kong)

Source: http://www.monkeypeaches.com/

[kczhu]

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News: http://1-apple.com.tw/apple/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&Sec_ID=9&ShowDate=20080326&NewsType=twapple&Loc=TP&Art_ID=30390282

2008 March 26

[kczhu]

http://img.1-apple.com.tw/cms/060328/twapple/640pix/20080328/EN05/EN05_003.jpg

News: *http://1-apple.com.tw/apple/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&Sec_ID=9&ShowDate=20080328&NewsType=twapple&Loc=TP&Art_ID=30397859

2008 March 28

[kczhu]

Pic: http://udn.com/NEWS/MEDIA/4279102-1823923.jpg

News: *http://udn.com/NEWS/ENTERTAINMENT/ENT2/4279102.shtml

2008 March 30

[kczhu]

Leehom Helps The Blind

2008 April 01
Gerry Ho

Pic: http://batgwa.com/articleimage/727/Photo1326558e.jpg

Read at: http://batgwa.com/story.php?id=727

Lee Hom on Bausch & Lomb HK website: http://www.bausch.com.hk/

[rajzaichin]

more updates at www.wangleehom.com (http://www.wangleehom.com)

[rajzaichin]

official song for 100 day countdown by various artists...include the one and only Leehom:


http://youtube.com/watch?v=0fT58hjwJzY

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SkAKyFDMzYE

Thanks to HomeSweetHome forum

[rajzaichin]

Jackie Chan, Zhang Ziyi to Sing for Olympic Film
credits: crienglish.com

A new film about China's first Olympian will feature four top Chinese-speaking celebrities on its soundtrack, its producer said on Wednesday.

Jackie Chan,Lee-Hom Wang, Zhang Ziyi and Stefanie Sun will join together to sing "Stand Up," the theme song for "The One," producer Wang Zhebin told the Beijing Times.
Jackie Chan, Zhang Ziyi to Sing for Olympic Film
credits: crienglish.com

"The One" is based on the story of sprinter Liu Changchun's struggle against Japanese invaders to represent China at the 1932 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles. Supported by the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG), the film was made as a tribute to the 2008 Beijing Games.

The idea to form a quartet to sing the theme song arose from the symbolic combination of four groups of Chinese artists -- Hong Kong, Taiwan, mainland and overseas Chinese -- represented by Jackie Chan, Lee-Hom Wang, Zhang Ziyi and Stefanie Sun, respectively, the report says.

Since the stars all have busy schedules and arranging a joint recording would be difficult, they will work separately and their parts will be edited together later, Wang Pingjiu, lyricist of "Stand Up" and a senior official in the BOCOG cultural committee, said. Award-winning musician Shu Nan composed the musical score for "Stand Up."

Stefanie Sun kicked off the recording in a Beijing studio on Tuesday. The Singaporean singer said she was honored to be involved.

"The One" is currently in post-production and will be ready for release next month. Earlier reports say it will be available to worldwide athletes attending the Beijing Olympics in August.

[tomoko]

wow, lee hom is really great.....

[in kaos]

It's great Lee Hom's involved with the Olympics :D

[kczhu]

Pic: http://www.singtao.com/media/20080505/20080505fp03.jpg

News: *http://www.singtao.com/yesterday/ent/0505fo03.html

2008 May 05

[kczhu]

http://img.1-apple.com.tw/1-www/060328/twapple/640pix/20080515/EN04/EN04_006.jpg

Wang Lee Hom's Event:

2008 May 15
2:00 p.m.
(02) 21751996
Taipei
Press Conference

Source: *http://1-apple.com.tw/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&Sec_ID=7&ShowDate=20080515&IssueID=20080515&art_id=30552696&NewsType=1&SubSec=31

2008 May 15

[kczhu]

http://img.1-apple.com.tw/1-www/060328/twapple/640pix/20080516/EN04/EN04_002.jpg

http://img.1-apple.com.tw/1-www/060328/twapple/640pix/20080516/_Other/E7.jpg

News: *http://1-apple.com.tw/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&Sec_ID=7&ShowDate=20080516&IssueID=20080516&art_id=30555919&NewsType=1&SubSec=31

2008 May 16

[kczhu]

http://img.1-apple.com.tw/1-www/060328/twapple/640pix/20080516/EN01/EN01_003.jpg

News: *http://1-apple.com.tw/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&Sec_ID=7&ShowDate=20080516&IssueID=20080516&art_id=30555896&NewsType=1&SubSec=31

2008 May 16

[kczhu]

http://www.singtao.com/media/20080516/20080516fp07.jpg

News: *http://www.singtao.com/yesterday/ent/0516fo07.html

2008 May 16

[kczhu]

Pic: http://udn.com/NEWS/MEDIA/4343542-1854865.jpg

News: *http://udn.com/NEWS/ENTERTAINMENT/ENT1/4343542.shtml

2008 May 16

[kczhu]

Happy 32nd Birthday, Lee Hom!

Shengri kuaile!

:)

[in kaos]

Lee Hom, it's "Ya Birthday!" :D

Keep on rockin'!

[in kaos]

Lee Hom donated 680,000 Yuan for the earthquake relief.

Video Source:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmje6znpnKs

Lee Hom's bday message urging people to donate for the Sichuan victims:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1s5xBJOoLs

[kczhu]

Pic: http://img.1-apple.com.tw/1-www/060328/twapple/640pix/20080519/EN01/EN01_007.jpg

News: *http://1-apple.com.tw/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Article&Sec_ID=7&ShowDate=20080519&IssueID=20080519&art_id=30564714&NewsType=1&SubSec=31

2008 May 19