Last week Jay Chou (周杰倫) and Patty Hou (侯佩岑) struck back at Next Magazine (壹周刊) for the gossip rag's cover story that said the couple had gotten tired of each other and were drifting apart. Responding to the report, the normally calm Jay called the magazine "Dog Weekly," in a play on the Chinese words for paparazzi.
The news may or may not be true, but it helped boost the bets currently being made on-line about the longevity of the so-called "Chou-Hou love." Total bets on the PTT bulletin board system have broken NT$500,000, with most people betting the couple's already broken up but the news has yet to leak out.
Jerry Yan (言承旭) of F4 has drawn some attention recently with his latest spokesman gig for Oral B toothbrushes. For sure, the man has a healthy set of choppers, but according to a poll conducted by The Great Daily News (大成報) this week, Lee Hom Wang (王力宏) and Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) have even better teeth. A poll of dentists, however, gave top teeth honors to singer Huang Yi-chiao (黃義交). On the ladies' side, top model Lin Chih-ling (林志玲), Jolin Tsai (蔡依林) and Vivian Hsu (徐若瑄) topped the list for best teeth, but the pros sided with Little S for the best smile.
The director of the TV show Friends, Roger Christiansen, was in town this week to check out the set of Taiwan's version of the popular American series. Though he can't speak a lick of Chinese, Christiansen gave the show, which will air on SETTV with a title that translates into "Living on the Left, Living on the Right" (住左邊住右邊), full props and said he hopes to be back to direct an episode.
The controversy over remarks by Hong Kong superstar Jackie Chan (成龍) following the presidential election last year ridiculing Taiwanese politics was refried last week when the singer announced to reporters while basking under the Cannes sun that he will not be coming to Taiwan until the current president serves out his term, despite the fact that it wasn't the president who took exception to his comments and the possibility that the same thin-skinned bureaucrats will be in office in four years' time.
The non-story got some extra traction, though, when straight-talking director Hou Hsiao-hsien (侯孝賢) joined the fray by taking Chan's side and belittling the Government Information Office, which had said Taiwan's feelings had been hurt, as "puerile."
The best headline this week in regional pop news went to our friends at the China Post for a story about Zhang Ziyi's difficulties starting a career in the US. "Hollywood hard for Asians, Says China's Zhang Ziyi," read the headline. Indeed. How else can one explain Bai Ling (白靈)?
DJ babe and beauty queen Stacy Hsu (徐曉晰) is going to tie the knot with a vice president of Deutsche Bank in June, a piece of news that will break many men's hearts. Hsu just couldn't hide her happiness. One can't blame her because, judging by appearances, her fiance Jin Wen-zhuang (金汶樁) is almost perfect: he is a young, good-looking, successful family man who loves kids and has a perfect body. Hsu said they've known each other for five or six years, but didn't have a chance to fall in love since they were both taken back then. They bumped into each other at a nightclub more than a year ago, and found themselves on the single market. Their relationship has gone smooth and sweet since then, and this modern fairy tale has come to a happy ending.
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