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2001 National Society of Film Critics Awards

Best Picture:Mulholland DriveBest Actor:Gene Hackman, The Royal TenenbaumsBest Actress:Naomi Watts, Mulholland DriveBest Supporting Actor:Steve Buscemi, Ghost WorldBest Supporting Actress:…

Warriors of Virtue

Director: Ronny YuWriters: Michael Vickerman and Hugh KelleyDirector of Photography:Peter PauEditor:David WuMusic:Don DavisProduction Designer:Eugenio ZanettiProducers:Dennis Law, Ronald Law…

Mission Impossible 2

Director:John WooWriter:Robert TowneUniversal; PG-13; 120 minutesRelease:5/00Cast:Tom Cruise, Thandie Newton, Ving Rhames Hong Kong director John Woo has long been cinema's poet of violence,…

Joan Chen Biography

Joan Chenactress, directorBorn: 4/26/1961Birthplace: Shanghai, China Chen has found critical and commercial success in Hollywood, Hong Kong, and China. Her film career began in China, at age 14, when…

methadone

(Encyclopedia) methadonemethadonemĕthˈədōnˌ, –dŏnˌ [key], synthetic narcotic similar in effect to morphine. Synthesized in Germany, it came into clinical use after World War II. It is sometimes used…

Hadid, Dame Zaha

(Encyclopedia) Hadid, Dame Zaha, 1950–2016, British architect, b. Baghdad, studied American Univ., Beirut (1968–71), Architectural Association School, London (grad. 1977). A partner in Rem Koolhaas's…

Sun Yat-sen

(Encyclopedia) Sun Yat-senSun Yat-sens&oomacr;n yät-sĕn [key], Mandarin Sun Wen, 1866–1925, Chinese revolutionary. He was born near Guangzhou into a farm-owning family. He attended (1879–82) an…

World's Most Expensive Cities, 2007

The survey measures the comparative cost of over 200 items in each location, including housing, transportation, food, clothing, household goods, and entertainment. Produced by Mercer, a global human…

World's Most Expensive Cities, 2008

The data in this table reflects a survey measuring the comparative cost of over 200 items in each location, including housing, transportation, food, clothing, household goods, and…