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Jet Li finally beats critics
Kung fu star Jet Li won the Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award for his leading role in Fearless.
This was Li's first time to win an award as leading actor.
Li faced fierce competition from Chow Yun-fat and Tony Leung who also did excellent jobs in Curse of the Golden Flower and Confession of Pains respectively.
The prestigious society in the special administrative region also revealed the winners for best director and best motion picture Johnnie To Kei-Fung and his movie Election 2.
The awards ceremony will be held on March 6.
Sharon Stone top of flops
Sharon Stone and Basic Instinct 2 were top of the flops as organizers of Hollywood's annual Oscars parody the Razzies unveiled their nominations for 2006's "worst of the worst".
The critically panned sequel to the 1992 psychological murder mystery received seven Razzies and come one day before the official Oscars nominations were announced in Beverly Hills. "Unenjoyable, unerotic, unwatchable," was how one reviewer summed up Basic Instinct 2 last year, while another stuck the boot into screen goddess Stone, opining that there "are inflatable toys that are livelier".
Basic Instinct 2 received nominations for worst picture, actress, supporting actor, director, sequel, screenplay and screen couple.
In the worst actress category, Stone faces competition from two of Hollywood's rising starlets, Jessica Simpson and Lindsay Lohan.
The winners of the un-coveted Razzies, which were created in 1980, will be announced at an awards ceremony in Hollywood on February 24, a day ahead of the Academy Awards.
Moore peace of mind and less depression
Mandy Moore has a lot going for her, including a starring role opposite Diane Keaton in the upcoming comedy Because I Said So. Even so, she's grappled with depression. "A few months ago I felt really low, really sad. Depressed for no reason," said the 22-year-old actress-singer this week.
Moore, newly single after high-profile relationships with actor Zach Braff and tennis standout Andy Roddick, says her recent split with Braff didn't help matters.
Moore, who is working on a new record at a studio in Woodstock, New York, and feeling better for doing it, says writing songs "away from friends in Los Angeles or New York" is good for the soul.
China Daily-Agencies
(China Daily 01/25/2007 page18)
