Nancy Kwan News

The Women's International Film & Television Showcase and TheWIFTS International Visionary Awards -- now in their second year -- will celebrate next week the talent and accomplishments of women in the film and TV industry worldwide with special screenings and award ceremonies.

ALTHOUGH I admire his gallantry, I am a bit sceptical when Vidal Sassoon, aged 82 , glides up from behind while I am bent over my bicycle and says: 'What a lovely view.' Because slick patter is pretty much what you expect from a Sixties hairdressing superstar.

This assistant DA won't be back Michaela McManus joined the cast of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as the new assistant district attorney at the start of this past season.

Nancy Kwan sips her coffee in a Los Angeles hotel lobby, still the lithe, delicate beauty who won fans around the world almost a half-century ago.

This is Week 7 of AsianWeek's salute to Chinese American Heroes, and this week, we are going to lighten up - no engineers, no mathematicians, no lawyers, and no Nobel Prize winners! We are going to about our thespian stars, of which there are actually very few.