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Lin Chi-ling. Photo: AFP

Six degrees

Keira Lu Huang

Lin Chi-ling, 39, the Taiwanese model-slash-actress, recently spoke about her upcoming role in Sino-US joint-venture film Beijing, New York. Her character, Jasmine, is involved in a love triangle with hunks played by mainland actor Liu Ye and American Ryan Phillippe. Lin said that although she would be shooting intimate scenes with Phillippe, they wouldn’t be quite as graphic as those in Ang Lee’s 2007 erotic spy movie, Lust, Caution. Beijing, New York was written and will be directed by Beijing-raised, British-educated Rain Li, whose work has included short films for fashion designers such as Yohji Yamamoto …

Born Reginald Kenneth Dwight, the multiple-Grammy-winning flamboyant British superstar released the album The Diving Board last month. The musician has described it as “my most adult album”, which makes sense given he is 66 years of age. Back in 1994, John admitted “I’m not very good with words,” when he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. “I let all my expressions and my love and my pain and my anger come out with my melodies.” Among the many charities the entertainer supports is the Raisa Gorbachev Foundation, a cancer charity set up by Mikhail Gorbachev …

An Indian-American physician and alternative-medicine practitioner, Chopra established his practice in 1996. He has written more than 75 books, 21 of which have been New York Times bestsellers. Nevertheless, Time magazine has called him “a magnet for criticism”, primarily from those involved in science and medicine. In 2006, Chopra launched Virgin Comics with his son, Gotham, and entrepreneur Richard Branson. Under its Director’s Cut imprint, Virgin Comics published a five-issue comic-book series titled John Woo’s 7 Brothers, written by Hong Kong film director John Woo …

 

 

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