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Web-only Exclusives November 30, 2000 From Our Correspondent: Hirohito and the War A conversation with biographer Herbert Bix From Our Correspondent: A Rough Road Ahead Bad news for the Philippines - and some others From Our Correspondent: Making Enemies Indonesia needs friends. So why is it picking fights? |
PEOPLE
By Alexandra A. SenoA Royal Award for the Queen of Hong Kong Cinema
AFTER WINNING JUST ABOUT every notable acting prize in Chinese cinema (plus a Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear), it was perhaps perfectly fitting that movie star Josephine Siao Fong Fong should be one of 107 Hong Kong people honored by Britain's Queen Elizabeth. Along with Atlanta sailboarding gold medalist Lee Lai Shan and movie director Ann Hui On Wah, the 49-year-old was made a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire -- which means she can now put the initials MBE after her name. Said the lead in such films as Hu Du Men and Summer Snow: "The MBE is very significant; it means a lot to me historically." But it's not the only significant development in Siao's life. She has decided to change jobs. Why, when she's at the top of her field? The veteran of 200 films explains that she is really a private person who dreads the limelight. So the Shanghai-born Siao, who has been hearing-impaired since she was two years old, will soon finish a degree course and get ready for a new life as a child psychologist. "Some say it's too late for me to think about a new career, but I don't think so. I have two more semesters and when I finish, I want to work in the field of child psychology," she told a Hong Kong newspaper. Meanwhile, the proceeds of Fong Fong's Private Collection, her newly released book of personal anecdotes about growing up in the film business, are to be donated to an anti-child-abuse charity.
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