Now it is cool to be FAT!
By Damian Charpentier

Chow Yun Fat that is! Yes the protocol son of Hong Kong is back in a all new movie with Mark Walberge, You know Marky Mark (oops I wasn't suppose to say that). The Corrupter is coming out shortly this month and we all are waiting in anticipation for the next line of English that this guru of action cinema has to say! Hey it seems in the preview that his English is getting better. I suppose if this actor is going to need it if he is to hang up the guns and don a sporty looking garb of royalty for the currently produced The King and I (actually under the name of Anna and the King), and no I don't think he is going to jump up in anger and shoot the nanny with his two 45. Cal. and quote " etc. etc. etc." If he does, hey you may be looking at the next big blockbuster! Seriously, please lets get seriously now. The man is the epitome of cool. Donning his shades and long coat, always with a cold look of steel in his eyes, a steady hand, a smoking gun, and a variation of a toothpick/ match in his mouth. Hey he is so cool that evening a young Quentin Tarantino decided to run out of his video store to buy a pair of shades and a new coat for the simple reason is looked good in The Killer. Mr. Fat (if you will) recently has become popular from the past hit, Replacement Killers. Bringing his own invasion to the US shores. This man, this actor, this "God of Actors" (ok maybe that IS a little extreme) is also bringing with him a swore of films from Hong Kong that the underground has been singing praise about but no one has been listening. Mr. Fat has actually done over 70 films (more or less according to Mr. Fat himself). "My career started in 1974. I started out by working for TV stations for 14 years, a long contract." (Box Office Online Cover Story, Dec. 97). Really known only for his movies with veteran filmmaker John Woo. Mr. Fat has been in such foreign hits as The Killer, A Better Tomorrow, Hard Boiled, and the short lived yet popular sequels to A Better Tomorrow. Mr. Fat is really the easy going guy, he is a down to earth fellow that is known to celebrate any birthdays on the set of his movies (I mean everyone.), he is also very well known for bringing dim sum to every shoot, and better yet he thanks everyone for making him look good. Hey you tell me what actors could ever thank a "boom boy" for making you sound better than you last picture. This is an actor with a lot of respect to the real work of a production crew. Even with lines like "Masturbate in HELL!" from his 1992 film Full Contact. Ok, ok it doesn't sound that good I know but it IS an action movie, NO not that kind of action. Still he is easy going. Better known for creating the two gun theory of gun-fighting he really is a gentle natured soul. John Woo was quoted as saying that Mr. Fat would immediately give the stunt man and prop men the guns back at the word "CUT." You look anywhere and women love him. This Cantonese man is just the Don Juan of Asian cinema. One female on the Internet said, " He's debonair. He never wrinkles his linen suits. Every the height of a chic, Chow is equally swoonable in bloodstained cop khakis and pale Armani silks. Let's not forget that two gun-slinging bad @$$ action!" (Chow Baby, Time International May 6, 1996 Volume 147 No.19) Ok that's enough, we are getting a little rowdy! See this is what a man of his caliber is doing to the women of our nation. I can't blame him. This writer has lost his mother to him. " I think he is very handsome…" Um, mom can I quote you on that? This writer welcomes the "God of Actors" (again with the extreme) and hopes his stay here in America will be a fruitful one. "And may you live in interesting times!" I most assuredly will!