Access Hollywood ran a piece on the superb film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon yesterday. After showing all the fantastic and superlative Amercian reviews, the show did something bizarre. They noted that the movie wasn t playing as well in China and Pat O Brien read a couple of reviews from Beijing that were negative, as if that meant that the film was bad. Uh, not to put too fine a point on this, but there s a little political situation that people kinda forgot. Hong Kong just went back under Chinese control in 1997, completing changing the previously superlative Hong Kong film industry.
China still has political problems with Taiwan, as in hate.
I thought so. I mean, it wasn t nearly as good as Chicago 17. Come on, that had Hard Habit to Break and Along Comes A Woman. He lost the race for Student Council Vice-President in 7th Grade, but John Ashcroft got confirmed as Attorney General. There is no justice.