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THE MAJESTIC DESTINY OF `THE LAST EMPEROR' // Director Bernardo Bertolucci finds serenity in the talke of Pu Yi, a tragic vactim of history
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HOLLYWOOD Bernardo Bertolucci went to China to mend a broken heart.
The celebrated and controversial Italian director was anxious to
get away from Europe, where an adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's Red
Harvest, a project he had been trying to develop for years, had
irreversibly collapsed. That he would ultimately produce "The Last
Emperor," his first critical and popular success since his 1972
masterpiece "Last Tango in Paris," was the farthest thing from his
mind.
"The reason ...
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Li Yuqin.(Obituary)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
The Economist (US)
; AS FAR as is known, Pu Yi, the last emperor of China, had five wives. For anyone fascinated by the turbulent history of China in the 20th century Li Yuqin's life is the most interesting of the five. Pu Yi's own story was told in The Last Emperor , a well-received film made in 1987. He had become
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The last concubine
The Independent - London
; As China's last imperial consort, Li Yuqin was enslaved from the age of 15. Yet her memories of the impotent emperor Pu Yi are generous, even fond. As China celebrates the return of Hong Kong from Britain, one Chinese woman has a very personal tale of indignity under foreign rule. The territory in
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Obituary: Li Shuxian
The Independent - London
; Li Shuxian was the widow of Aisin Goro Pu Yi, the "last emperor" of China, immortalised (with some of his character traits deliberately overlooked) in Bernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning film, The Last Em- peror (1987). Though she probably knew him better than any of his contemporaries, she did not
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John Lone identifies with lonely emperor
Chicago Sun-Times
; HOLLYWOOD John Lone had never heard of Pu Yi before director Bernardo Bertolucci brought the last emperor of China to his attention. But then, Lone has gotten through life without knowing many things. Like Pu Yi himself, the young actor had an unusual, cloistered early life, cut off from many of
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ADDED FOOTAGE HELPS FLESH OUT `THE LAST EMPEROR,' BUT FILM STILL LACKS HEART.(What's Happening)(Review)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; When Kenneth Branagh painstakingly made the entire play of ``Hamlet'' into a cinematic feast in 1996, American audiences initially groaned, ``Four hours of Shakespeare But when seen in its entirety, rather than the cut-and-excised versions starring Mel Gibson and Laurence Olivier, ``Hamlet'' was
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