Steinbeck, Hemingway, Ayn Rand, JD Salinger, and now…. Bai Ling!
Deciding that she’s conquered the world of acting and realizing that attending every red carpet premiere and photo opportunity in the world will not help resolve the Middle East conflict, Bai Ling has decided to re-focus her efforts and work on a book titled, “My Life as a Crazy Movie Star.”
The publisher, HarperCollins, must have thought she had an extensive library of Chinese language films or something. Hello - Movie star!? Don’t you have to be in a lot of movies to be considered a movie celebrity? An episode on “Lost” and “Entourage” and a small role in “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow” don’t count.
In any event, Ling says the book will focus on “how I see the world.” Should be fascinating. Book your copy now on Amazon… or not.
Zhang Ziyi is seen here with her arm candy boyfriend at the Christian Dior Fall/Winter 2007-08 Haute Couture collection show in Paris. The prestigious fashion house of Christian Dior is celebrating its 60th birthday this week and John Galliano in his 10th year as Dior’s designer.
Hey this is for all you aspiring young artists out there. If you want a hip hit music video burning up the charts, then be sure to include anything related to Asia. Bling bling, Badonkadonk hoochies, and fast cars are so yesterday.
Get with the program and cast some Asian extras. Any will do as chances are your viewing audience won’t know the difference which ethnicity they’re from anyway. And if you have a real budget, well, heck, fly the whole crew to Tokyo or Beijing. If your low on cash then try Chinatown or Koreatown.
Take some lessons from the pros: If you’re Gwen Stefani then draw inspiration from Japanese culture and fashion by using four back-up dancers known as the Harajuku Girls in your videos and concerts. (Click here to see video).
Kanye West’s recently released single, Stronger, uses ‘it’ girl and hottie Blasian, Cassie and was originally shot for nine days in Japan. A genuine Japanese motorcycle gang was used in the video which included the BAPE store and the BBC shop as locations.
Wanna top that? Then why not rent out the entire Forbidden City in Beijing. That’s what Jared Leto and his vanity band, 30 Seconds to Mars did. In fact, they were reportedly the first American video ever to be shot entirely in the PRC. How did they show their gratitude? By donning some traditional Chinese garb and kicking some major local ass in the video - Hai yaahhh!
Finally, if you have no real storyline concept but just want to jump on the ‘Asian contagion’ bandwagon then just throw in some trendily dressed but disinterested looking Asians. Daddy Yankee opted for a big name duet singer in the form of Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas for the video Impacto. This is a half hearted effort but if you’re new at the exploitation game then, by all means, take it slow.
Good luck!: DaDump hopes this abbreviated workshop helps fulfill your Billboard dreams and gets your video on MTV’s daily rotation. If you are having trouble coming up with fresh new ways to take advantage of the exotic notion that is Asia, let me know. But please do not use Asian import models… unless you’re an up and coming hip hop act with a truly limited imagination.
Chinese movie star Bai Ling has hit out at critics’ love of her naked form - insisting they are the ones with dirty minds.
The actress, who is frequently photographed in revealing outfits and has posed naked for Playboy, loves her body and being naked, and refuses to stop stripping.
The 36-year-old says, “I believe the human body is basically a gift. It needs to be cherished, respected and celebrated. I love being naked. I think it’s the human mind that is dirty not the body.” [ActressArchives]
Time sure does fly. It’s been almost a full 10 years since the Handover. Remember that quaint little event back in 1997 when Prince Charles and the gang ceremoniously gave the little island of Hong Kong back to China.
Well the Hong Kong film industry certainly does. And in a bid to commemorate that anniversary and come up with another exuse for a party, a gala event celebrating the 10th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to the Chinese mainland was held in Beijing on Monday.
Christina Aguilera is in China as part of her Asian Tour. In these pics, she’s holding a news conference promoting her Shanghai concert which has just finished (it’s now Tues nite in S’hai).
Beautiful voice, progressive outlook, curvaceous body but WTF is up with those eyebrows! DaDump is a huge fan of hers but is kinda freaked out with her makeup. Therefore I choose to focus on other aspects of her body…
Houston Rockets center Yao Ming seems likely to walk down the aisle this August with fiancée Ye Li, a player on the Chinese women’s basketball team.
Houston Rockets manager Daryl Morey was quoted as saying that the couple will hold their wedding after Yao has finished practices in July. The “small giant” will later join the national team for some exercises and warm-up matches in September before returning to Houston to prepare for the new season.
Glad to hear that the big guy could squeeze in a wedding between his commitments to the Rockets and the China National team. Mazeltov to the happy couple from DaDump!
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Actress Cameron Diaz appears to have committed a major fashion faux pas in Peru. She may have inadvertently offended Peruvians who suffered decades of violence from a Maoist guerrilla insurgency by touring there Friday with a bag emblazoned with one of Mao Zedong’s favorite political slogans.
While explored the Inca city of Machu Picchu high in Peru’s Andes, Diaz wore over her shoulder an olive green messenger bag emblazoned with a red star and the words “Serve the People” printed in Chinese on the flap, perhaps Chinese Communist leader Mao’s most famous political slogan.
Nearly 70,000 people were killed during the insurgency.
“It alludes to a concept that did so much damage to Peru, that brought about so many victims,” said Pablo Rojas about the bag’s slogan. “I don’t think she should have used that bag where the followers of that ideology” did so much damage. [Y!]
Sometimes Actress/ Red Carpet Fixture Bai Ling attends the 2nd Annual Star Night Party at the Playboy Mansion recently. Since she hasn’t yet mastered being a thespian, Bai decides to show off her inability to master another skill by pretending to play an autographed acoustic guitar for her biggest fans, the paparazzi.
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