Bai Ling

[robinturner]

I know I'm not good at names and faces (as my students will testify) but my lack of observational powers is starting to get embarrassing. I have seen The Monkey King, The Crow, Anna and the King and the "She" episode in Angel and only just found out that Bai Ling was in all of them. I could understand this lapse if she was really ordinary-looking, but she's absolutely gorgeous; in fact her performance as Kuan Yin was almost enough to turn me back into a Buddhist.

Maybe it's just that she's a good enough actress to be able to fool you into thinking she's someone different in every film. I'l let you judge for yourselves ...

Comments

[kochanie.livejournal.com]

A friend sent me the letter in the mail... forwarded it.. and today they had the diplomat who wrote it speaking on All Things Considered

[katminnaar.livejournal.com]

I've seen some of those. She IS gorgeous, and a very good actress! Am I wrong or wasn't she also in Miss Saigon?

[solri.livejournal.com]

She might have been in a later stage version - I don't think she was in the original, but then I haven't seen it. More recently she's been in "Wild, Wild West" and "Red Corner", neither of which I've seen, though I hear the latter was good.

[katminnaar.livejournal.com]

Wild, Wild West was really dumb. Red Corner..... was Richard Gere in that? I think maybe I saw it years ago.

[solri.livejournal.com]

ı heard the same of WWW - a film that didn't live up to the music video. Richard Gere was indeed in Red Corner, the film that had Bai Ling barred from her native China. I haven't seen it, but it received reasonable reviews.

[katminnaar.livejournal.com]

I think I did see that years ago; can't remember much about it. I heard Joan Chen was also in trouble with China because of a movie she produced awhile back, "Xiu Xiu, the Sent-Down Girl." Brilliant film, though. :)