With all the buzz about super models these days, it was only a matter of time before competition over who will be the next hottest thing after Lin Chih-ling (林志玲) began to flare up in public. Model and actress Lily Tien (田麗) took a bold swipe at model and TV-show hostess Hung Hsiao-lei (洪曉蕾) on Hung's girl-oriented talk show on Monday during an exclusive interview on Super TV. Looking Hung in the face, Tien said, "Models who try to be TV hostesses are all amateurs. I'm an expert."
Later, when the Great Daily News (
There was more cattiness in celebrity circles this week when model Pace Wu (吳佩慈) not-so-politely refused an invitation to promote her new book Beauty Expert (美麗達人) on entertainment talk-show host Mickey Huang's (黃子佼) show. Wu is a close friend of Little S (小S), who was dropped quite publicly and dramatically by Huang about three years ago and the fallout from that episode evidently
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lingers to this day. Responding to questions about her refusal to appear on the show, she said, "The best thing Mickey ever did for Little S was to break up with her.
She added, "If I knew [Huang's current girlfriend] Bao-bao (寶寶) earlier, I'd have told her not to get together with Mickey."
Not one to take a cheap shot sitting down, Huang, who is a best-selling author in Taiwan, countered with a reported tone of sharp sarcasm, "I wish her luck with her new book."
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A final chapter in the extramarital affair between TVBS anchors Chen Sheng-hung (
The alarming tone of the message leads one to hope that Pan is somewhere quiet and picturesque cooling her jets and regaining some much needed perspective. Maybe she could go to Africa, where the romance with Chen was reportedly first sparked, and talk to a few people with far better reasons to feel sorry for themselves.
Jay Chou (周杰倫) was in Shanghai over the weekend to promote his new movie Initial D (頭文字D) and landed in a bit of hot water by going to one of the city's better-known hostess bars. Always watchful of snooping media, Jay stayed in the clear by drinking watermelon juice all night and keeping his hands firmly wrapped around his glass, according to Next Magazine (壹週刊). One of the hostesses quoted in the report even did him a favor, though probably unwittingly, by saying Jay was "pretty boring."
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Concerns were voiced in several media over the weekend about the box-office prospects in China of Jay's movie, which is adapted from a popular Japanese comic book and was shot in Japan with Ann Suzuki (鈴木杏) and a Hong Kong all-star cast of Edison Chan (陳冠希) and Anthony Wong (黃秋生). There is fear that the current tide of anti-Japanese sentiment will keep people away from theaters -- or worse.
As I finally slid into the warm embrace of the hot, clifftop pool, it was a serene moment of reflection. The sound of the river reflected off the cave walls, the white of our camping lights reflected off the dark, shimmering surface of the water, and I reflected on how fortunate I was to be here. After all, the beautiful walk through narrow canyons that had brought us here had been inaccessible for five years — and will be again soon. The day had started at the Huisun Forest Area (惠蓀林場), at the end of Nantou County Route 80, north and east
Specialty sandwiches loaded with the contents of an entire charcuterie board, overflowing with sauces, creams and all manner of creative add-ons, is perhaps one of the biggest global food trends of this year. From London to New York, lines form down the block for mortadella, burrata, pistachio and more stuffed between slices of fresh sourdough, rye or focaccia. To try the trend in Taipei, Munchies Mafia is for sure the spot — could this be the best sandwich in town? Carlos from Spain and Sergio from Mexico opened this spot just seven months ago. The two met working in the
Exceptions to the rule are sometimes revealing. For a brief few years, there was an emerging ideological split between the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) that appeared to be pushing the DPP in a direction that would be considered more liberal, and the KMT more conservative. In the previous column, “The KMT-DPP’s bureaucrat-led developmental state” (Dec. 11, page 12), we examined how Taiwan’s democratic system developed, and how both the two main parties largely accepted a similar consensus on how Taiwan should be run domestically and did not split along the left-right lines more familiar in
A six-episode, behind-the-scenes Disney+ docuseries about Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour and Rian Johnson’s third Knives Out movie, Wake Up Dead Man, are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming offerings worth your time this week: Chip and Joanna Gaines take on a big job revamping a small home in the mountains of Colorado, video gamers can skateboard through hell in Sam Eng’s Skate Story and Rob Reiner gets the band back together for Spinal Tap II: The End Continues. MOVIES ■ Rian Johnson’s third Knives Out movie, Wake Up Dead Man
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