You have to pity the model and wannabe singer Little Dragon Girl (小龍女). Her fortunes have gone straight south, and so has she for that matter, all the way back home to Pingtung County where, according to the latest issue of Next Magazine (一週刊), she has been reduced to tilling the soil for a living.
Little Dragon Girl's real name is Cheng Ya-ping (鄭雅萍) but she was given her moniker after a steamy nude picture book by the same title earned her a dedicated following, mostly among geriatric men. But a series of arguments with her agency about her contract, a drug use conviction and an album release that saw a paltry 3,000 copies sold have forced her to concede defeat in the tough world of stardom in Taipei and contemplate night school back on the farm.
A model and actress who seems to be fairing better, despite, or maybe due to her being harassed by rumors of a romantic liaison, is Kelly Lin (林熙蕾). For the past week, Lin has been denying rumors of a link between her and the son of the chairman of Teco Electronics and between her and the actor Daniel Wu (吳彥祖). The hype has been enough to earn Lin second place on an unreferenced top-10 list of stars for whom Hong Kong businessmen would like to be sugar daddy. The list, published in Monday's edition of the Apple Daily (蘋果日報), had Cecilia Cheung (張柏芝) at the top with an initial offer of HK$8 million. The going price for Lin was HK$7 million.
In late August Pop Stop reported that Sun Yanzi (孫燕姿) was taking a break from her life as a star for at least a year. But since announcing her hiatus, she's been racing around the region for advertisements and concerts. And on Sunday, Yanzi was in Shanghai for what was supposed to be a quick promotional event for an on-line game event. Things got out of hand, however, when she appeared an hour late at the venue and the crowd became agitated and people began rushing the stage and fighting. When the mob had sufficiently calmed down, she rushed through three songs and then high-tailed it out of the venue, which triggered another round of fisticuffs in the crowd and some harsh words aimed at her the next day in the Shanghai Morning News (晨報). The paper accused her of playing "word games" by announcing her hiatus and said she was only interested in taking people's money.
Momoko Tao (陶晶瑩), better known as Taozi (陶子), landed in a bit of hot water this week with the Government Information Office over the content of a recent episode of her new talk show. The episode in question had as its topic bed manners, or more specifically, how people moan, scream and shout during sex. This was too much for the bureaucrats at the GIO, and they've asked Phoenix TV, the station that airs her show, for a written explanation of the offending episode and for greater restraint in the future.
According to insider knowledge uncovered by the Oct. 18 edition of the Gogorock newsletter, 7-11 stores across Taiwan will begin an unprecedented marketing campaign to promote the new boy band Cosmo, whose Chinese name is "wanzi" (丸子). Wanzi is the term for those boiled meatballs on a stick that simmer for God knows how long by the microwave at 7-11s. The convenience store will begin offering on a single stick the three wanzi flavors that each represent a member of the boy band. Junior's representative flavor is crabmeat, Xiaogui's is squid and Green Tea's is pork.
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