Who's in
No biz like showbiz, for movie star-turned-CEO
Hong Kong movie star and singer Edison Chen, 26, became the youngest CEO in showbiz in the special administrative region this week with the formal opening of his entertainment company.
Chen said the company, Clot Media Division, will produce albums for him and two other singers, sign on amateur singers and produce live shows, TV programs and films.
"It has been my dream to open my own company in which I can enjoy freedom of work and higher payment," he said. Chen was earlier with the Hong Kong Emperor Entertainment Group.
Judi Dench to 'break a leg' on Oscar night
Academy Award nominee Judi Dench said that well-wishers should not tell her to break a leg on Oscar night because she is going to have to miss the ceremony to have knee surgery.
Dench was speaking at the Berlin Film Festival where she and fellow Oscar contender Cate Blanchett gave their kinky tale of sex and intrigue in a London school, Notes on a Scandal, its international launch after successful runs in Britain and the United States.
"I can't go to the Oscars because I've got to have a knee operation so 'break a leg' is actually quite apt because they're going to have to break it and put it back together again I'll be much taller," the diminutive star quipped at a packed news conference.
"But I shall watch and cheer from my bed," said the six-time Oscar nominee and one-time winner.
In Notes on a Scandal, 72-year-old Dench plays Barbara, a predatory schoolteacher who develops an amorous interest in her beautiful, married colleague Sheba (Blanchett).
Sharon Stone cools it a notch in Berlin contender
Hollywood diva Sharon Stone has switched off the sex appeal to play a neglected wife and mother in When a Man Falls in the Forest, a Berlin Film Festival contender which she also produced.
After the film's premiere, Stone said her appearance as a seductive murderer in the 1992 global smash hit Basic Instinct bought her greater freedom to pick roles that challenged her.
Stone, 48, appears in the film with little makeup and turns down her natural exuberance to play Karen, a
woman who fears her fading beauty is making her increasingly invisible to those around her.
"I think that all women face this experience. I don't think it's a question of exterior appearance," she said.
Getting up, close and personal
Supergirl Wei Jiaqing gave her own interpretation of Elton John's Can You Feel the Love Tonight over the weekend on "Fresh 10 cm," a party initiated by Zhong Hua toothpaste to help youngsters make new friends.
Nearly 1,000 people came in search of fun and a Valentine's Day partner. Most were students and white-collar workers. The party featured many games that brought the participants within 10 centimeters of one another, an ideal distance for love to blossom.
Agencies-China Daily
(China Daily 02/16/2007 page18)
