Hong Kong actress Gigi Lai announced on Monday (Oct 20) her retirement from entertainment world after 23 years into the show business.
The 37-year-old actress made the announcement during a promotion event for her latest (and probably last) TV series “The Gems of Life”.
Gigi stated that she wants to spend more time on family matters, presumably to take care of her brother who was badly injured in a car accident in May 2007.
There are rumours that another reason behind her decision is to prepare for her marriage with a low profile millionaire; she denied about it though.
Gigi has starred in more than 50 movies and drama series over the years. Her career first peaked in mid-90s with the “Young and Dangerous” movies, but then gone downwards for a few years before making a successful return into drama acting in 2004 and remains popular since then.
To be frank, I’m not really going to miss her acting… wishing her all the best anyway.
The 21st Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) kicked off Saturday (Oct 18) with Japanese prime minister Taro Aso among the ~300 guests that graced the opening event at Roppongi Hills [via Japantoday]
The theme of TIFF 2008 is “Ecology = Preservation of Earth’s Environment”, and the organiser replaced the usual red carpet with a green carpet made from recycled plastic bottles to exemplify the theme, which I doubt could bring any meaningful effect.
A total of 315 films from around the world will be shown during the nine-day event. Chinese movie “Red Cliff”, directed by Hong Kong director John Woo, was selected to kick start the screening; would be cute if the stars wore some green outfit during the green carpet to echo the theme lol.
The main cast of Red Cliff at TIFF 2008… (L-R) Vicki Zhao, Chang Chen, Takeshi Kaneshiro, director John Woo, Tony Leung, Zhang Fengyi and Lin Chi Ling (Image from
Udn)
Taiwanese pop star Jay Chou’s latest album, “Capricorn” (魔杰座), is officially released today (Oct 15) across Asia. Cool album cover; and his first promotional track “Fragrance of Rice” (稻香) sounds pretty nice (music video after the pics)…
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Hong Kong pop star Kelly Chen finally tied her knots with her long term boyfriend Alex Lau after 16-years into relationship. The couple held their wedding ceremony at InterContinental Hong Kong Hotel on Thursday (Oct 2).
Congratulations, and best wishes.
“Eat You Up” is a dance hit by Angie Gold which was hugely popular in 1980s especially in Asia because of the covers by Japanese pop star Yōko Oginome and Hong Kong star Priscilla Chan.
I never knew the song title though… happened to bound in to this music video while searching about Korean pop star BoA’s American debut with a song of the same title.
Sharing all three music videos below (from Angie, Yoko and Priscilla); pretty catchy song and some ‘interesting’ 80s’ fashions and dance moves…
Angie Gold - Eat You Up
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Hong Kong actor-director Stephen Chow is going to direct and star in the movie version of “The Green Hornet”, announced Columbia Pictures.
Canadian comedian Seth Rogen will co-write the movie and star as the main character; and Stephen Chow will star as Kato, Green Hornet’s sidekick which was played by legendary martial arts star Bruce Lee in the TV adaptation in 1960s.
The Green Hornet and Kato, played by Van Williams and Bruce Lee in 1960s TV series
It’s said that the movie will be more comedic than the original versions (comic, radio and TV)… but I have doubts over the making of this movie regardless. It just doesn’t click for me, and I don’t think the young generations could relate to the characters.
The Green Hornet is scheduled to premier in Summer 2010.
“The Assembly”, a warfare movie by Chinese director Feng Xiaogang became the biggest winner at the 29th Full Blossom Awards presented on Saturday (Sept 13) in the City of Dalian, China.
The Assembly won the best movie, best director, best leading actor (Zhang Hanyu) and best supporting actor awards (Deng Chao).
The best actress and supporting actress awards are won by Li Bingbing and Taiwanese veteran Gua Ah Leh respectively with movie “The Knot”.
Best actor and actress Zhang Hanyu and Li Bingbing (Image from
Xinhuanet)
“Miss Universe” (宇宙小姐) is the first promotional track from Taiwanese pop group S.H.E’s latest album “FM S.H.E”. The album is their first in more than a year and will be officially released on September 23. Music video below…
Miss Universe is a cover for Jade Valerie’s “Crush”, which was original done as a duet with Korean singer Baek Ji-young in May 2007.
