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Maggie v. Barbie: Asia's green girls
Actress and model, Maggie Q (pictured), who is set to star in the fourth installment of the Die Hard series, and Taiwan actress and singer Barbie Xu are in a virtual tie for the early lead as Asia's sexiest vegetarian. PETA's annual World Sexiest Vegetarian poll, launched on Go Veg.com also lists Lebanese/Filipino singer and actress Yasmien Kurdi, Indian film heavyweights Mahima Chaudhry and Hema Malini as Asia title contenders.
Results will be revealed later this month. A complete list of vegetarian celebrities who are in the running is available at Go Veg.com.
Mom: Britney on the rebound
Lynne Spears says her daughter Britney (pictured), whose public meltdown included shearing off her own locks, is "just figuring things out." "It's sad that the whole world had to watch her make
mistakes that all of us have made at one time or another," Spears is quoted as telling Us Weekly magazine in its latest issue.
The 25-year-old pop star completed a month-long stay at a luxury Malibu, California, rehabilitation treatment facility in March after attracting an onslaught of media attention for wild behavior that included partying with Paris Hilton and a stop at a San Fernando Valley hair salon, where she shaved her own head.
Britney Spears, who reached a divorce settlement with aspiring rapper Kevin Federline in March, recently posted a message on her website saying she had been acting like a "bad kid running around with ADD (attention deficit disorder)."
The singer filed for divorce from Federline in November, just two months after giving birth to the couple's second child, Jayden James. Their elder son, Sean Preston, was born in September 2005.
"Everything is going to be good," Lynne Spears tells the magazine. "Everything is going to be really good. I can see her life picking up and it's just going to hold great things for her."
HK girls' 10 years on TV
Hong Kong Sisters (Xianggang Jiemei), a 30-episode TV series saluting the 10-year anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China, will screen at 7:55 every evening on CCTV-1 from June 16. The drama begins in the days before July 1, 1997, and revolves around the experiences of two common Hong Kong girls over the following decade. Ying Cai'er (left) from Hong Kong and Cao Xiwen from the mainland take the lead roles.
All actors speak Mandarin in the series instead of Guangdong dialect, because the story's target audience is the Chinese mainland, said director Mai Guanzhi, a Hong Kong local who used to work in TVB, one of Hong Kong's largest TV stations. To add local flavor to the story, he invited three veteran Hong Kong actors, each with more than 20 years experience in TV or film, to be involved. Mai said the drama present an authentic Hong Kong story, with one of the two scriptwriters also from the region.
China Daily-Agencies
(China Daily 06/15/2007 page18)
