Taiwanese pop singer A-mei (
Dressed fashionably, A-mei spoke during a 15-second commercial, saying young people should say "no" loudly when offered cigarettes. Later on, A-mei told an interviewer that she doesn't smoke, and she called on youngsters not try the habit.
The commercial will soon be broadcast intensively in Taiwan.
According reports, China's own health commission has also contacted A-mei, requesting that she act as an anti-smoking icon for the Chinese people too.
A little Stuart Little story
You know that new movie playing in Taiwan now about a mouse named Stuart Little? Well, while Stuart Little is the pint-sized film hero who's having fun with his big-screen adventures, he's also the next bishop of the Episcopal Church of Northern Indiana in the US, according to recent reports.
But the Reverend Edward Stuart Little said his late father really was the original Stuart Little.
According to family legend, the reverend's newsman father was friends with the writer E.B. White in the 1930s and 1940s. White wrote the book about Stuart Little, which was the basis for the movie. Just why White christened his roadster-driving rodent after the senior Little remains a mystery.
``That's all I know,'' according to Little, 52, who was born two years after Stuart Little was published in the US in 1945.
The reverend said he remembers seeing a signed, first-edition of the children's book classic at his childhood home, ``but it's long gone. I own a copy now, but I went out and bought it.''
Reverend Little is to be ordained as bishop of the 6,000-member Northern Indiana diocese on March 18 -- by coincidence, the same day as Taiwan's presidential election.
Since the film came out, friends have given him a toy mouse dressed as a bishop, and one circulated a movie still of the mouse bearing the words: ``Hi, I'm Ed, your new bishop.''
``I'll probably save it all for my kids for when I'm in a nursing home,'' Little said.
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