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LAM CHING-YING (1952-97): The fearless vampire killer
Those who knew Hong Kong actor Lam Ching-ying describe him as disciplined and often severe, generous to his colleagues, but so private that when diagnosed with liver cancer in mid-1997 he didn't even tell his closest friends.
He died that November, aged 45, and his pallbearers included actor/director Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan. At his...
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QUENTIN TARANTINO: The director defining the landscape
There was a scene in Michael Palin’s much acclaimed travel-doco Himalaya which, even if you didn't see it, you'll recognise. It was of a towering mountain with clouds scuttling over at about 10 times the speed. Such an image is over-familiar these days -- you see it often in ads which indicates how cliched it has become -- but the...
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