Song and disco at Maya
FANS of Shanghai's night life will certainly know Real Love disco, Planet Shanghai and Cotton Club. All these hangouts belong to Shen Shen Company. Now the company has opened its latest - Maya Club.
Public shuns collectors
MOST collectors in Shanghai fund and exhibit collections all by themselves. Almost all of them work full time to support their expensive hobbies. But as their collections become more and more abundant and valuable, they are now facing even more difficulties.
Spanish food and wine gala
SPANISH cuisine offers the perfect diet based on healthy ingredients from the Mediterranean: fresh fish, seafood, meats, vegetables and of course, the purest virgin olive oil.
3 films for Brunkheimer
LOS ANGELES - Could Jerry Bruckheimer, producer of big-budget, testosterone-charged movies like this month's "Gone in 60 Seconds," be mellowing in the new millennium?
Furniture from around the world
By Zhang Kun FURNITURE from all over the whole world is gathered
Britain's animator make Hollywood 'Chickken Run'
LOS ANGELES - Sooner or later, most entertainers go Hollywood and for Britain's Aardman studio, maker of hit clay animation short films, glamour time has arrived with "Chicken Run," its first feature film opening nationwide on Wednesday. The movie, about a group of hens hatching an escape plan from Tweedy's egg farm in the English countryside, is backed by the DreamWorks movie studio and features Mel Gibson as the voice of an American rooster, as well as British actresses Julia Sawalha, Miranda Richardson and Jane Horrocks. This past weekend two Aardman principals, co-founder Peter Lord and director Nick Park, hobnobbed with Gibson and studio head Jeffrey Katzenberg at the Hollywood premiere of "Chicken Run," complete with red carpet, paparazzi and reporters. Despite the fact that Lord and Park are Oscar-nominated stars among animators - Park has won three of the awards for his "Wallace & Grommit" shorts - the two admitted to a case of nerves ahead of their splashy, Tinseltown premiere. Modern plasticine is the material used to make the "clay" animated puppets in "Chicken Run," along with foam latex, silicone, resin and a metal skeleton around which the figures take shape. At roughly $15,000 for one prototype, these "puppets" are no kids' dolls, said Lord. (Agencies via Xinhua)
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