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POW A UBC READER’S PAPER

Vancouver, British Columbia, March 23,1993

UBYSSEY SPECIAL 1 QUOTE O F THE DAY

I 6 4 My goodness yf’re

Sophia L!ung, 011 Mulroney’s $11 mlllloo travel costs

living high.

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UBC-AMS may pay off fired m.anager accused of BY GORSHARNTOOR AND

CHUNG WONG

TheAquaticCentremanagerwho washredafterfourstudentsaccused him of sexual harassment may be paid off by his former boss.

‘There may be compensation for his termination,” said AMs president Bill Dobie.

The UBC-AMs management committee which operates the Aquatic Centre offered former

manager Jim Bremner a chance to negotiate for a possible severance package soon after they fved him March 4.

The committee conducted a two-month investigation after four sexual harassment complaints against Bremner were filed last December.

The committee hopes that negotiations will lead to a trade off Tor a waiver that would prevent Bmner from going to court for

wrongful dismissal. He has yet to respond.

“We are acting out of concem for the complainants and the centre-to potentially avoid legal battles that may be unnecessa~y,” Dobie said “We want to close , t h e issue.“

However, a UBC applied ethics professor said the offer may imply an admission of fault by the commiaee.

“It might mean they think the misconduct wasn’t ; a s wrong as they

fmt thought,” said Louis Marinoff ofUBC’sCentre for AppliedEthics. “Why bribe him to shut up?”

“You can assume [the committee] has no ethics. Any politicalbody hasoneethicandthat is self-preservation,” Marinoff said. “It could mean they made a..blunder.”

But he said, that if Bremner is offeted a severance package it does not necessarily “infer if premner] was guilty or noL”

harassment “Only a court of law can

determine that,” said Marinoff. “The complainants should go to the police.”

The complaints against Bremner, who is also an auxilliary RCMP officer, were filed at UBC’s Sexual Harassment Policy Office. But the offi:e has washed its hands on the matter.

“It’s nolw in the hands of the managemen~:committee,”saidoffi~ advisor Ian !Smith.

Pow/Perspectives reporters Angela Tsangand Phyllis Kwan and Perspectives copy editor Natasha Hung will help lead next year‘s league IPHOTO BY ROSA TSEN

Writers on the storrn. ~~

UBC’s new writing wave:

Paper spawned by UBC’s * + . racial segregation

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U did in the mid-west. BC students have been bombarded They survive over the wire:. this year by a record number of They simply fax their articles to an editor

newpapen circulating on campus. %who, in turn, relays the: stones to a dozen copy Each isvyingforamarket thatappearsto editors. After a month’s work, out comes

have been fragmented into several mini- 5,ooO copies of a 12-page newspaper. pockets. But one of these newspapers stands “It was tough,” said Perspectives editor apart from all of theothers-it hasnooffice. and foundex Dennis Chung, a fourth-year

The 30-plus students running ‘UBCmechanicalengineeringstudent.“Itsure Perspectives may not have an office, but they lhelps to have an office.” don’t have to work out of their knapsacks His new monthly invades yet another tile either-like one legendary university student See page 5

Keaders show more taste BY BRENDA WONG, HA0 LI,

PHYLLIS KWAN, ANGELA TSANG,

AND LILLIAN AU MICHELLE WONG, KAREN GO

S TEREOTYPES of “Asians” an grossly overstated by Vancouver

daily newspapers, a Pow study shows. The study, which targeted a mix of both

Chinese and non-Chinese, revealed that local papers have amplified misperceptions of Asians in Vancouver and have bred racial disharmony. Participants in the study also felt that city reporters have consistently failed to interview enough Asian sources.

Vancouver Sun and Province reporters “think them is only one ‘Asian’ in Vancouver,” said William Lee, a marketing analyst.

The recognized spokesperson for all Asians, according to Lee, is Victor Yukman Wong.

‘They all interview Victor Yukman Wong.”

Wong, president of the recently-formed Vancouver Association of Chinese- Canadians,hasbeenlihemedia’sconsummate Asian. Somehow qnrters have chosen only him to represent ,the Chinese-Canadian community on almost every issue.

Well,at least on their favorite issues: gangs, mega-housing and immigrant invasions.

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MI. 75, No. 45 POW Tuesday, March 23,1993 3

A tale of two architectural city W

BY BIANCA ZEE

HEN architect intern Sylvia Fong designed her

fmt men’s bathroom in Hongkong. she fudged. A honest mistake, she laughs.

She drew parallel rows of urinals for visual effects. But the urinals wete placed so close that whenmenpeedintooppositeurinals, their bums wodd touch.

Those days of humourous mistakes are over for Fong, 29, who landed a job in Vancouver with James Wng’s mhitecture finn, a favourite among Asian investars, whose projects have included 888 Beach Ave., the Cambie Gardens and the Chinese Cultural Centre.

At a Nova Scotia school. Fong had studied and admired James Cheng. who modelled the the downtown Albemi Towers after the T m p Towers in New York City.

At James Cheng, Fong said she couldrealizeherarchitectural dmm of building Chinese-style in a Canadian setting.

In her thesis. the Vanwuver- resident focussed on the relationship of buildings to the social ethics.

The Technical university grad likes to point to one tale of two cultures.

“An extended family lives in the Chinese courtyard house embodying the strong family relationshpwithinthesociety.The nuclear Western family, however, lives in a house anchored with a front and back yard symbolizing the dominant social value of independence.”

She started designing

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Architect Interns Svlvia Fona (left) and Mamie Tamaki

BYKARENGO AND BRENDA WONG

T HE door bangs loud behind you as you climb up dark

andmwstairstomhitectGraeme Bristol’s office in a turn-of-the century Powell Street building with many skylights beaming above its Southern Chinese-style balcony.

I Walking past the ominous

residential homes, but has expanded into institutional projects like the Bumaby Firehall and Port Moody City Hall Library theater.

In her spare time she likes to sketch and design furniture as a hobby.

“Designing furniture is so immediate and you can design and build it within a week,” said Fong..

In Halifax. she made iron restawant signs, and a small wooden table based on the pattern of H Chinese courtyard house.

“My fiancee helped me make a long, thin, and black base for white futon sofa with chunky blocks of

legs and the futon itself seems to float on top.” said Fang.

She advises architecture students not to limit their designing talentstobuildingsantichannelrhem into creative works.

Fong says the tu~nnel into local architecture firms has caved-in, and not completely due to recession WOeS.

“I really feel sorry for students,” she said ‘With their busy schedules, firms basically don’t have time to train people.”

Fong has also 11111 a design consulting fm since November 1992 in addition to her 9-to-5.

Mamie Tamaki works on a blueprint image on her lap top computex.

Tamaki, 42, traces the building’slongandnotorioushistory to 1914asamahjongsocialcluband a Japanese internment center.

Today T.amaki is determined to build her stake in Vancouver in a field that has been built around men and unkind to women especially if they bear children.

In order to hang Out her own shingle as a registered architect, the Regina-born Tamaki was required

internship within five years. This condition excludes women who

to finish unbroken --year

dreams want to start a1 family and work part- time.

The catch for females is that the typical graduate will be in their late 209, a prime child-bearing period. Once you trave children after graduation you risk delaying gaining your architecture credentials.

This may explain why only seven per cent of all registered architects are women, yet one third of UBC architecture graduates are women.

Although Tamaki started her family earlier, she is lobbying to change the strict internship paocess.

After graduating in from UBC in 1983, she was sidetracked into site decorati<yn which ensures the physical sumunding is harmonious with the buildings. Expo 86 was her most memorable project.

Nowshelhashersightsonsocial housing as the focus of her career.

“Architecture is a great combinatioli of art and science,” Tamaki said

AboardnremberforEntreNous Femmes, a housing developer for single-parent families, Tamaki believes housing should be a right for everyone.

Although not a co-op, Entre Nous Femmes encourages prospective w m t s to partake in decision-making.

“Then you have the user participating in their destiny and this usually tloes not happen in architecture,” ‘I’amaki said.

It’s a far c y from commercial architecture where an architect is squeezed between competing interests of contractors, client, esthetics and building des.

Liberal “turtle and hare” race tonight at Eric Hamber

BY CHUNG WONG It stretches around UBC, is bordered by 16th and41stAvenuesandstretchesasfareastasNanaimo

A STONE‘S THROW away from former John Turner’s childhood Belmont Avenue residence,

Sophia h u n g sits at her Point Grey home pondering the possib1:ity of replacing the former Liberal prime minister in Vancouver Quadra.

Though she prefers to hide it, hung is a woman of

She and her late husband-UBC dentistry faculty founder S. Wah Leung-were the first Chinese to own proper ty on the Univasity Endowment Lands.

Tonight after a final 8pm Liberal nomination showdown at Eric Hamber school,Leung may also become the first. woman to leadl the Liberals in Quadra.

Althoughsheisfavouredtowin,leungisnotcounting on i t

“Remember the hare and the turtle. I want to be humble. I have good competition-highly intelligent.“

One of her competitors is a former Lester B. Pearson aide and constitutioln expert Ed McWhinney who complained that Leung had too many Chinese people in The Vancouver Sun yesterday. The others are W i c

many fmts.

Street The neighbouring riding of Vancouvercentre is led by Kim Campbell, a formla Ubyssey reporter, who is favoured to lead the 1rories into the next federal elections. One in five nsidents is Chinese.

But Leung is also being supported by Liberal heavyweights such as f m e r Vimcouver mayor Art Phillips, former BC Liberal party president Doreen Braverman, former UBC president Doug Kenney and Kilby Gibson, president of the Liberal party national women’s commission.

Her campaign committee includes former UBC Young Liberals president N o n m Au and James Lee, the architect of President Place in Richmond.

She began her campaign three months ago without any political experience and says her lack of political baggage has helped her significantly- shielding her from political party darts.

Leung. a family counsellor and financial consultant, moved to Point Grey 30 years ago when her husband became UBC’s fiiit dentistry dean. Together they helped found the Chinese Cultural Centre. which, in the 709, was dw, political centre for

Veteran Point Grey resident Sophie Leung was first Chinese economics professor Elmu Wien and ~iberal old-guafd the”c&unity. in 1988theyhelpedto to own property on Univeristy Endowment lands. She favourite Craig Hemer,, a high school counsellor. establish Vancouver’s sister-city ties with competes tonight in a final Liberal showdown for The federal Libeds-not to be confused with Gordon Guangzhou. the capital of Canton province. Vancouver Quadra Wilson’s BC Libeds-view Quadra as their political

PHOTO BY W W epicentre in V a n W ~ V e f ’ . SEE PAGE: 43

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Tibet still a "Shanrzri-La"

T BY MICHI LYLE

HE CHINESE government have been waging a

genocidal campaign against the people of Tibet since 1949, and the world does not seem to be aware of i t

So says to Cythnia Hunt of the Canada-Tibet Committee, a UBC grad student who recently spoke on campus about current political, environmental, and spiritual conditions in Tibet.

Hunt's lecture, entitledAfrocities on theRoof ofthe World,highlighted the brutal nature of events in Tibet She deliberately chose not to hide behind euphemsitic words like "occupation" or"ethnic cleansing."

Hunt said Tibet is still an earthly paradiselikethe"Shangri-La"image described in James Hilton's novel, Lost Horwns. Tibetans are very spiritual people, she said, who co- exist harmoniously with their natural environment.

They practice spiritual ecology-a philosophy which is reflected in the way they use the natural resources that surround them. They would never use a living

thing wastefully because, as Hunt explained, they would be showing disrespect for all life, on the one hand, and damaging their own lives, on the other.

Among the many slides shown during the lecture, one of an elderly manwhoselegshadbeen amputated struggling up a hill to a monastery, illustrated that religious devotion and a strong attachment to the land arepartandparcelofmostTibetans'

In many ways the People's Republic of China's invasion and subsequent occupation has irrevocably change Tibet.

But the Tibetan spirit has remainedundimmedandmany have resisted the illegal occupation.

Repression reached an apex in Tibet following the national uprising against the Chinese on March 10, 1959. But Chinese troops brutally crushed the revolt, killing over 87,000 people in Central Tibet over an 18 month period, according to Chinese sources.

Located in the Himalayas northeast of Nepal and southwest of Mongolia, Tibet is still an independent state under illegal occupation. The spiritual leader and head of state, the Dalai Lama, a f m

daily lives.

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believer in non-violence, fought for eight years to reach a peaceful resolution to the sutuation.

Over 100,000Tibetans.including the Dalai Lama, are exiled across

Hunt said that one in 10 Tibetans have been held by the Chinese government in prisons or forced

years.Today about 10,OOOreligious and political prisoners face torture, forced labour and possible execution.

The occupation of Tibet, said Hunt, is the destruction of not only a place, but of a people who have learned how to live in harmony with nature.

Hunt said that unless Tibetans regaincontrolovertheirowncountry in the very near future, they may be wiped off the face of the earth.

The same thing has been going on for hundreds of years to the world's aboriginal peoples-from the Australian Maori, to the Moi of Irian Jaya in New Guinnea, to Canada's First Nations, to Nepal's Gurung people.

the globe.

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And the list goes on and on. Hunt said she considers Tibet to

be her second home and plans to return next June.

"The idea of establishing an international criminal court is not

Just about every international new," said externalaffairs minister criminal law expert has m e to town. Barbara McDougall, keynote

But not because BoPis and Bill speaker to the confenme which willbehere. opened yesterday.

The group is grappling with '1There have been war crimes stumbling blocks facing the trialsdatingbwktotheMiddleAges, establishment of an international m when military leaders who allowed thatwouldbeempoweredtoinvestigate their soldiers to commit inhumane and prosecute international offenses acts against innocent civilians were including war crimes and crimes tried for violating the laws of God against humanity. and man."

BY ANTHONY DERRICK'- After the International Meeting of Experts on the Establishment of an International Criminal Tribunal ends its week- long conference, it will report back to the United Nations which may set up legislation for the court.

When planned 18 months ago, the experts were to help design a general court. However, since the outbreak of civil war in the former

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Editor Dennis Chung started UpPerspectiveswhich should make waves with advertisers next year PHOTO BY ROSA TSWG

of space in the SUB, which already convinced advertisers to drum up housesUBCReports(Circ:48,000), several hundred dollars for a paper The Ubyssey (Circ: 15,000), The whichdidn’t yetexist,duringatime Campus Times (Circ: 16,000), Pow when most businesses’ purses were (Circ: 15,000). The Point (Circ: empty. lO,O00), Discorder (Circ: 15,000) Surprisingly, he almost broke and countless pirate distributors. even with his first issue, and What a mess. absorbed smaller losses than both

Perspectives, a bilingual The Ubyssey and The Campus ChineseEnglish paper, is poised to Times. emerge as the leading advertising “There will be lots of anchor at UBC, with the Campus advextisingintheAsiancommunity, Times suffering recession woes and come September.” Chung said “I’m 74-year-old Ubyssey attracting confidentwe’llmakelotsofmoney.” advertising boycoets. He anticipates Perspectives’

In early January, Chung circulationtodoublenextfallandto

especially “serious issues.” A M s anc<-rjBc student service information; outgoing, enthusiastic and

help had local Chinese Out Of their Canadian universities; and energetic; able to make anyone feel

ClUMmted social nests and into with the suggestions of the welcome.

organizations; said the solicit ideas from other

campus political lift;. He insisted Organize a Programme that will make first year that the paper be students feel welcome.

which he called ”paqdented” Applicants must be available from Monday, May 31 to Friday, September Thoughtheex&~ence.,fatleast 10. ~ewageis$9.73perhourbasedona37.5hourworkweek.Preference

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the competition may have improved For further information call Janice Boyle, Vice President, in SUB 248 at 822-

standards*uBc studentsdon’thave Please deliver applications and resumes to Tern Folsom, Administrative togotopurnalismschool.’Iheycan Assistant, in SUB 238. Previous applicants need not apply. leamhowtoreportanclwritethrough direct, hands-on experience, without exams-and fa free.

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SHARKS DIVISION SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT

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The Pow newspaper coed softball team battled hardily against the hard-hitting Purple Punishers this month in a f d showdown between the Intramural Sharks Divisions' two best teams.

"I was quite surprised at how well we did," said power hitting center fielder Harold Park, "We only had two short practices and didn't even know who was going to play until the last minute."

PowandthePurplePunishersenteredthefinalseachwith 3-0 record. Pow had just rung off 1@9,17-9 and 15-6 wins during the March 13 tournament and the Punishers, though short a female player, were even more impressive.

'Ihe Pow team put reporter Hao Li at the hot comer at ~newseditorBrendaWongbehindtheplate,photo~her Don Mah at second with his longtime pumalism tag-team mateChungWongatfirstandsportseditmCharlesNhoin right field

TherestofthePowteamfeaturedHaroldPark,theFong sibling crew of Vince and Quentin at shortstop and second, UBC tennis club president Sean Gadel in left, and the dynamic outfield golden glove trio of Deanna Ho, Tomoko Kimura and Roanne Suen.

"It was fun for me," said Li, "If we took it too seriously

then I don't think I would have enjoyed it as much." With Pow playing deep, the heavy-hitting Punishers,

mostly from UBC's FIJI fraternity, were held mostly to base hitsandlongoutsinamsetightmatchthatwentintothefd inning with the game tied 6-6.

In the top of the 7th. The Punishers pushed two runs acrosstogoahead8-6.Powquicklyscoredarunandhada runner in scoring position with only one out. But two straight first pitch outs ended the game 8-7.

The Punisher's game-winning run scored after a contentious incident at first base. Pow was punished.

A Punisher over ran first and then cut toward second. charging toward Chung Wong who stood 20 feet behind the base path. Wong ducked during the collision and emerged with a shiner from an accidental kick in the face as the player toppled. The player accused Wong of interference and was awarded second base. It was, after all, the Sharks division.

It was only a game- A game filled with bloodied knees. diving stabs, and home runs taken away by shoe lace catches.

"We'll be back," said Pow captain Don Mah.

Ha0 Li was miffed over a coaching miscue by Charles Nho who butted into the line up when Li should've hit. His eyes set on glory, Nho popped out on the first offering to dash Pow's hopes.

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"So, we'll be back," said Pow goat Nho.

Vancouver Quadra races heats up FROM PAGE 3 LeungsaidthedemographicsofQuadracanbetrickyto

sttaddle. "Quadra is a very complex riding. People m well-

informed and welleducated. with higher income. And we have a hard-working population covering the east side, grassmots people. It's a challenge to be able to relate to botb groups, but I have as a social worker."

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Leung said that if she wins the nomination she will maintainhercommitllnenttosocialprogramsandstimuhting income.

"I feel we must mwxt our social ~xopcrams such as old

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thesweetsixteenalreadydetennined.upretceneal

Lung also has her sights on reducing the $40 billion annualinterestcdlectedfromthe$419billionnationaldebt.

"We have to reduce government expenditures," she said. "I took a look at it, the= sure are things we have to review."

"They [the Tories] gave so much to the corporations. Some corporations may require it but some of it was just simply thrown down the drain."

She also pointed to Brian Mulroney's $1 1 million travel expenses this year. "My goodness"we are living high."

Leungbelievescanadahassolditselfshortoninternational economic opportunities.

"We have to get ourselves re-oriented," said Leung. "We have to expand on our goods and services. We can't just live on our natural resources. We have a lot of exports which are high quality.

Finest performance by a Individual Player: Wake INTERNATIONAL COURT FROM PAGE 4 Forests' Rodnev Roners' work in the Daint is so far the

hung wants to stimulate global employment whereby Canadians would be players on the world market.

"Home is not Canada, home is the world," she said. 'We m excellent in waste management and transportation but Canadians are resaved. We have to be aggressive."

Leung called past Canadian trade missions "wasted energy."

u I w a s t h e € e [ i n A s i a ] a n d I ~ t h e c o m ~ t i o n " thisisglobalcompetition.ToCanadians,theysay,'Youcome here. you see the opportunity, you go home and don't do a follow-up.'"

"We have not moved fast enough and tend not to be innovative, it just doesn't really work. They say Canadians are wonderN but not aggressive."

About 90 UBC students from mainland Chinapined the Liberal party within the past month to show their support for Leung adding on to hundreds of her new recruits.

Oneofthestudents,PingnanShi,said,'Whenpeopleare talking about Chinese new immigrants, the first image is wealthy rich Chinese from Taiwan and Hong Kong. As a mattexoffact,therehavebeenmoreandmorenewimmigrants from China with high education, beuer language skills. However, they have been largely ignored by the society."

"No politicans have ever showed their interest to this community," he said.

According to Ha0 Li, a UBC graduate student, "'lley [the students] also hope their participation will change the image that Chinese immigrants do not know OT are not interested in Canadianpolitics.ThistimeweshowedoursupparttoSophia Leung because she is the first one to ask for our support and showed her interest to our COI1CeTnS."

"Canadahastakemaleadroleontheinternational political stage." said Burns.

Other UBC participants include professor Maurice Copithorne, a former Canadian ambassador and international law professor, and law professor Vince Del Buono, president of the International Society for the Reform of the Criminal Law.

The conference is being driven by the International Centre for Criminal Law Reform And Criminal Justice Policy, a tripartite initiative between UBC's law faculty, SFU's criminology department, and the two-year-old International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law.

ThecentreisaUemptingtorecruitintemuionalscholars and set up a local graduate program in international criminal law and criminal justice policy which would involve Max Plank University at Freiberg. Gennany.

InstrucminthissateWgraduateprogramwwld lecture and intea.acl with students around fhe wwld via elecaonicmediabeamedfromVaRcouva.

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FROM FRONT PAGE

Readers say local press lacking diversity

This kind of reporting has helped to create negative images of Asians and has overlooked the diversity of the Asian communities in the city. The Asian-if you believeWEnglishmediagiants- is either a big home or land owner, a bad driver, a violent criminal, or all of the above.

And while images of wealthy immigrants and Asian gangs leap off of the news pages, thousands of Chinese, even third-generation Cadians,donotappearanywhere inthelOCalmainStreampress.

DefhingtheaverageAsiancan beadifficulttask.AtUBCtwonew papers this year, Pow and Perspectives, are attempting to expose what The Sun and Province ignoredandaretryingtodrawa more realistic portrait of Asian

Powmductedastudythispt week to investigate actual and perceived habits of Asians. The results showed, among otherthings, that recent Asian immigrants speak English almost as often as those who have lived in Vancouver more than ten years.

MoHt people, like college professor Anthony nou , said they do not know what an ideal Asian is while others, like Helena Wong, deny that such an ideal even exists. Several respondents, like civil servant David Cowie, said they perceive the typical Asian as adaprabletotheirsocialandbusiness

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Anita h i Tonv Leunn BY CHUNG WONG &cul&~y the twy survived.

Today Hong, 24, wears a glass eye B m G . and still performs his midnight movie ritual.

That was perhaps the most This uniquely Chinese midnight memorable subtitle ever to cross a phenomenon draws full houses in screen in Vancouver. Greater Vancouver's four Chinese

The time was when theatres every weekend. and hundreds of Cantonese speakers surprisingly, English cinemas have filled the city's Chinese theatres as yet to follow suit. part of their weekend ritual. At Aberdeen Centre's 361-seat

Broadway's Golden Princess moviegoers flock to buy numbered Theatre William Yeung, a Viet seat tickets in advance and then Ching gang member, had perhaps relax at Rhino's Cafe with simultaneously shot Tony Hong a mango shake. then 18 years old in the eye. A true The films with favourites such as life situational irony of life Maggie Cheung, Anita Mui, Aaron imitating art. The audience at first Kwok and Andy Lau changeover believed the gunshot was in dolby weekly despite their success to Stereo . compete against video pirates. The

In the crowd at East Sun Bo or New Treasure,

Was the kill planned for that midnight show usually premieres point of the film. Only the shooter new films in town. knows. - Hongkong film watchers are

Maggie Cheung Aaron Kwok next expecting the reclusive assasination attempt. The Nowadays he produces more films Leslie Cheung to rem on producer was later fatally stabbed than acts. But recently he starred screen after an absence of at the hospital. in City Hunter a parody of a several years. Cheung moved Tong Leung, voted as Japanese cartoon. from Hongkong to West Hongkong's best dress man, was And that's a key word fop Vancouver where he has lived in recently featured in The Lover. Hongkong films. Almost every reclusion reportedly to escape Aaron Kwok is the latest successful script in America has

photo frenzy. He played the Instinct, Pretty Woman etc. etc. Triads. target of Hongkong's tabloid been parodied in Chinese: Basic

For those unfamiliar with villainous Grey Fox which co- etc.

Maggie Cheung is in Saviour of the Soul, a midnight hilarious. others popular in the line up: starred Anita Mui and Andy Lau The results are usually

considered Hongkong's Meryl feature at the Vancouver Despite the full house, there Streep. She recently won the International Film Festival that are no queues. You can buy your best actress award at the Berlin drew a full-house. numbered ticket. Film Festival for her portrayal of Andy Lau has been a Other theatres include: the tragic death of China's most favourite for surprisingly more The Far East which tookover famous actress Ruan Lin Yu. than a decade. Hongkong stars the Vancouver East theatre on

Anita Mui has been seldom last beyond that period. Commercial Drive but mainly dubbed Hongkong's Madonna Fay Fay or Fat Fat is shows Hongkong adult films. for her wild antics on stage in Hongkong's most recognizable Chinatown's Sun Sing or her music career. Mui's producer comedian, a Roseanne Barr type. New Voice which opened up was sliced up at a karaoke bar in And of course, Jackie when The Golden Harvest theatre Hongkong in a Triad-related Chan, that martial arts expert. was shut down due to gang fears.

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