The prestigious 50th annual Golden Bell Awards just went down this Saturday night in Taipei, and it was definitely one of the years with a plethora of A-list attendees. None more so than two time Golden Bell Best Actress winner Ariel Lin walking the red carpet with one Golden Bell Best Actor winner on each arm, Vic Zhou to her right and … Continue reading →
I wouldn’t be surprised if Rainie Yang will be one of the next top Taiwan stars to bid farewell to the single life. There have been so many weddings in the last year with Ariel Lin and Jay Chou and Sonia Sui, and not to mention babies following soon thereafter. Rainie graces the cover and pages of the August issue … Continue reading →
I love a good solid girl-friendship, especially when it involves two of my favorite actresses. Bonus points for lasting over a decade and still going strong. Ariel Lin and Rainie Yang, arguably Taiwan’s top two home grown girl-next-door award-winning actresses, have come a long way since their early teenybopper acting starts. Ariel has won two Golden Bell Best Actress Awards … Continue reading →
The 51st Golden Horse Awards took place last night in Taipei to celebrate the best of film in Greater China for 2014. It was an unprecedented triple win for Chinese actor-director Chen Jian Bin (who walked the red carpet in sunglasses heh), currently still best known around the world as Your Majesty Emperor Yongzheng from the blockbuster C-drama Legend of Zhen … Continue reading →
It’s hard enough getting to the top of the entertainment food ladder in one category much less two, it’s way harder to stay put and consistently put out projects that the fans scoop up. Rainie Yang crossed the decade mark on her dual acting-singer career a few years ago at the height of her fame and has since then stayed … Continue reading →
We all know how quickly fame and fortune can flee, especially in the entertainment industry with a lot of temptation and a fickle audience as consumers. That makes Ariel Lin’s reign as one of Taiwan’s top actresses and entertainers all the more impressive. She’s got both mass market popularity with her dramas and win plenty of critical acting awards for … Continue reading →
This is an interesting article that taps into a popular Chinese cultural myth and might have some nuggets of anecdotal truth to it. A Taiwanese newspaper recently wrote about four of the most popular actresses in the Chinese-speaking entertainment world in a different context beyond their own popularity and acting successes. There is a commonly held belief that a man … Continue reading →
No one can ever accuse Rainie Yang of being unable to act because she has the same one facial expression. To the contrary, she’s had to work hard to really reign herself in with a tendency to have a hundred different expressions some of which are delightfully animated. She’s like a walking manga shoujo heroine, with a saltier real life … Continue reading →
In my mind Rainie Yang has been an actress for so long that her three year long hiatus from acting felt like an eternity. I do like bits of her song book but her singing career isn’t as winning for me as her winsome animated acting. Her last drama was Drunken to Love You with Joseph Chang back in 2011, … Continue reading →
I’m always amused by the dating gossip coming out of Taiwan entertainment. There is a noticeable lack of fake pearl clutching that happens in Korea where even the suggestion of dating is called a “scandal”. Even when a celebrity couple is pretty much widely acknowledged as dating but refuse to publicly confirm it, their fans shrug and the media just … Continue reading →
It’s hard to believe that in Rainie Yang‘s twelve years in the TW-acting industry she hasn’t done a single period drama. Most if not all her compatriots have tackled wuxia and period dramas and movies aplenty during their career, almost always doing a C-drama or a HK-movie. Rainie did have a wuxia fantasy sequence to start Sunshine Angel, her rom-com … Continue reading →
Rainie Yang worked non-stop as an actress for so long (a decade really) that its been really odd for her to focus solely on her singing career these past two years without a single acting project in the mix. She hasn’t acted since Drunken to Love You in 2011 and doesn’t have anything lined up as far as I’m concerned. … Continue reading →
Shoop shoop, new couple alert in TW-entertainment! I gotta hand it to Rainie Yang – the girl does not have a type at all. Her first boyfriend was Xiao Gui (Alien Huang) when they were both in high school. Next came Yuan Jun Hao, followed by a high profile romance with Roy Qiu, then a not-so-subtle fling with Sunny Wang. … Continue reading →
