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Bianca Pai is one of Catwalk's biggest assets.photo: Taipei times

Life is not all wine and roses for the beautiful people of Taipei's entertainment industry, but they are at least able to find some compensation. Penny Lin (林韋君), the B-movie actress and TV host notorious for her amorous adventures, has decided that a couple of months with pop star David Tao (陶?) is about all a girl can bear, and has moved on to pastures new. Next magazine has had a crew of paparazzi following the couple's every move, and have captured Lin possibly holding hands with an as yet unnamed young man. What is the world coming to? She quickly pulled away when she caught sight of the media crew, as clear an indication as the local rags need to launch into a frenzy of speculation.

Tao, to make sure that nobody suspects that he is without someone to keep him warm at night, has been captured on camera with Liz Yang (楊俐思), a model. Penny and David are "still friends," and seem to be content to go slumming it with relative unknowns for the time being.

In other news from the runway, Sonia Sui (隋棠) is emerging as a rival to the ubiquitous Lin Chi-ling (林志玲), but in the process is putting old "friends" behind her. Local fashion godfather Ivan Hong's (洪偉明) agency Catwalk (凱渥) has put the deep freeze on Sui after she expressed reservations about the commission the company was taking on her work; a repeat of the situation when Lin left the agency. The agency is now putting its weight behind the emerging new talent Bianca Pai (白歆惠), who got her big break when she took up the slack after a fall from a horse put Lin out of action for some months back in 2005. There is no love lost in the modeling industry, that's for sure.

Did practice make perfect for Tony Leung? photo: TAIPEI TIMES

Local media have also been getting seriously uptight about whether Tony Leung (梁朝偉) actually and for real got it on with Tang Wei (湯唯) during the filming of Ang Lee's (李安) Lust, Caution (色,戒). Leung's on-again off-again girlfriend Carina Lau (劉嘉玲) is said to have been seriously upset after seeing the film with friends (revealed in leaks to the media by said friends). There has been considerable anatomical speculation at whether some of the acrobatics that in Ang Lee's world pass for sex could actually have permitted penetration of any sort, and if so, could this really be considered an act of betrayal to Lau (herself no stranger to male admiration)? Perhaps it was simply the brio with which Leung seemed to be entering into his part that surprised Lau.

In the most recent development, Lau has come out publicly to say that she knew all about the sexy bits in Lust, Caution even before shooting began. She is now taking the moral high ground and is now lauding Leung as a "great actor," for the sacrifice he has made for his art.

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