This year’s Golden Horse Festival (Chinese Oscars) has last year’s best actor winner Ethan Ruan (for Monga) as the official ambassador. And no less than renowned Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsia-hsien helmed the 30-second film that features Ethan to promote the festival. The official poster: (Side note: I like Ethan. Among the Catwalk trio–Joe Cheng, Mike…
The first news that greeted me today was the death of Steve Jobs. I never knew the man but I was filled with such profound sense of loss that one reserves for a loved one. Perhaps, Steve or Uncle Steve as I would jokingly refer to him, was really like everyone’s Uncle who always had…
Jay Chou’s song Ah Ba, is nominated as best theme, at this year’s Golden Horse (Chinese Oscars). The song was in the film Abba. I haven’t heard it before, but small surprise since it was released as part of an album of Taiwanese Hokkien singer Hong Rong Hong. The lyrics was written by Vincent Fang…
It’s turning out to be one very star-studded night at the Golden Horse Awards–the so-called Chinese Oscars–on November 26, that is if the nominees show up. Consider this: Andy vs Eddie, Shu Qi vs Deanie. Andy Lau is nominated for best actor for A Simple Life together with his co-star Deanie Yip who won best…
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