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Chen Kun

7. Rhinoceros in Love, an off-Broadway-type play, is given lavish treatment by the press for its 10th anniversary restaging.

No wonder Shakespeare wants to fall in love, too.

8. China is importing a production of the Italian opera Aida from Egypt, where the story originally took place.

What's next? Butterfly from Japan, Samson and Delila from Palestine, or Swan Lake from the National Zoo?

9. Actress Wang Ji has been complaining about Air China for preventing bumping her mentally handicapped child from boarding the plane.

If she decides to turn the episode into a TV drama, she should not seek advertising from the airline.

10. Pretty boy Chen Kun bought an expensive bag for his mom, who, without knowing its value, used it as her shopping bag.

There goes his chance of acting as LV's spokesman.

(China Daily 06/26/2008 page18)