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History, kung fu, city life on award run

National
2009-2-12

JOHN Woo's recent Chinese historical epic, a biopic of Bruce Lee's kung fu master, and a documentary-like film about a working-class neighborhood racked up the most nominations at the Hong Kong Film Awards, organizers...

Director John Woo returns to Chinese film with epic 'Red Cliff'

National
2008-7-2

AFTER 16 years directing Hollywood movies, John Woo is returning to Chinese film with an ambitious two-part historical epic that he hopes will also appeal to Western cinemagoers. "Red Cliff," whose first installment...

Fire halts shooting on latest John Woo feature

National
2008-6-11

THE shooting of John Woo's new movie ''Chi Bi,'' or ''The Battle of Red Cliff,'' was stopped by a serious fire that killed one and injured at least three people, The Beijing News reported yesterday. The...

Berlin winner dies at 92

Sport | Athletics
2007-11-3

JOHN Woodruff, a fellow black American teammate of Jesse Owens who also won a gold medal to repudiate Adolf Hitler's "master race" agenda at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, has died at an assisted living center near Phoenix. ...

John Woo's new film to debut at Venice

National
2007-8-27

AFTER more than a dozen years in Hollywood, Hong Kong director John Woo has returned to Chinese-language film -- and the gangster thriller genre he's best known for -- with "Blood Brothers." It will be the closing...

Chow Yun-fat has agreed to return to 'Red Cliff'

National
2007-5-14

JOHN Woo must be wondering: will the musical chairs ever end? Woo's new Chinese epic, "Red Cliff" has gone through a dizzying and embarrassing round of casting changes that saw another twist Monday. After...

Scribe suspended

Sport | Soccer
2004-4-5

A HOUSTON Chronicle sports columnist has been suspended without pay for a month after a recent column was found to be virtually identical to one he wrote in 1990 for another newspaper. Mickey Herskowitz's column last month about former UCLA coach John Wooden contained little new information and duplicated many phrases, the Chronicle said in an editor's note published in its Sunday editions.