Mars went to Japan for racing scenes
Zaizai's stand-in was unconscious after his motorcycle
overturned
2004/03/24 ETtoday of Taiwan


Mars starring Yumin Zhou and XiYuan Xu went to Sendai
Japan to shoot racing scenes.
To make Zaizai¡¯ character, Ling, looks more like the
professional racer depicted in the Comic, Mars crew
spent a fortune of 500 thousand NT dollars hiring a
Japanese designer to design Zaizai¡¯s two racing suits
and two helmets.
While at work in Japan, what impressed Yumin Zhou most
was the warm-up exercise of shoveling snow every
morning before work. Whether it was an actor, an
actress or a staff member, everyone had to shovel the
snow on the racetrack before filming could be started.
To ensure actors¡¯ highest safety, sometimes they even
had to use heaters to melt and dry the leftover snow.
The Japanese production crew specifically hired many
racers who have ranked top three in Japan many Grand
Prix as Zaizai¡¯s stand-ins. Members of Mars crew were
all very appreciated of it. Producer ZhiPing Chai kept
on saying:¡± We all have to be very careful in safety
measure. Should any accident happen, we won¡¯t be able
to afford the damage.¡±
One very scared thing happened when they were shooting
racing scenes. The director asked a professional racer
to do a demo in one of Zaizai¡¯s racing scenes. It was
a scene where groups of motorcycles sped forward
simultaneously at the start line. Zaizai¡¯s stand-in
started the motorcycle and jumped off his motorcycle
when he saw the one in front of him collapsed because
its engine died. The stand-in¡¯s motorcycle slid and
hit the one in front of it. Everyone was in shock by
the series of crashes. Meanwhile, before he could get
up, Zaizai¡¯s stand-in was hit by the motorcycle
rushing from behind at him. He suffered from shock and
was unconscious for a while.
After the ambulance arrived, when the paramedical
personnel was just about to lift the stand-in racer to
a stretcher to take him to a hospital, miraculously he
suddenly woke up. Everybody was relieved. Zaizai
watching the whole thing kept on saying that it was so
dangerous. If he had been the one on the motorcycle,
he couldn¡¯t image what could have happened.

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From an exchange of blows a friendship grows between
Steven and ZZ
Posted: March 25, 2004

http://www.vicpower.net/asp/UploadFile/2004-3/200432502540249.jpg

Machi's Steven is the cousin of the former L.A. Boyz
member, Lin Zhi
Wen. He will be officially be advancing towards idol
dramas. He'll be
acting with ZZ in "Mars." In the drama, from an
exchange of blows a
friendship grows between the two, the more they fight
the stronger
they get.

Steven and ZZ have a fighting segment in the drama.
When seeing his
opponent, his chest muscles will strengthen. The thin
and weak ZZ
hasn't even gotten in place and he's already
shivering. The director
especially invited a martial arts for guidance and
protect ZZ's
safety.

Source: Da Cheng Bao

Translated by Amy of http://f4ever.azn.nu

Please vote for Vanness For Best New Performer
Here is the link :
http://events.sina.com.hk/hkfa/vote9.html

choose vanness and press the button on the left at the
bottom. it'll
then lead you to a page.

first box: email
next: gender (first one is male, second female)
next: year of birth, fill in last 2 digits
next: education, just select one of the four
next: occupation, just choose one
next you'll see a picture with 4 numbers, type the
numbers you see
in the box below it.
then click the blue button at the bottom.


thanks to sarah of f4group2003

zaizai almost met accident filming for mars

zaizai went to hugo (japan) to film for his new show
mars.his manager rent a racing track and suite for his
new show which cost 150 wan in taiwan currency
approximate 12 wan in hongkong.

before filming, the crew have to clear up the wet
floor full of snow.but the floor was still slippery

zazia's subtitute went in the bike, but due to
weather, the bike caught fire so he flew out of the
bike but was hit by the another bike which approach
him.luckily he was not seriously hurt and zaizai not
in the bike.

zaizai kept saying 'afraid', when the weather improve
they continue to film but zaizai was afraid to skid
and fell down


Thanks to ZaiZai Lover Home for posting the news

MTV MOST WANTED: VANNESS WU
posted: March 25, 2004

VJ UTT: it's the birthday of Denise and so as a gift
we have a very special guest for you and it's the MAA
2004 host -- none other than Vanness Wu!

--music video [Can't Lose You]

VANNESS: what's up everybody? you're watching MTV Most
Wanted... i'm Vanness Wu and i'll be reading your
requests...first request is from mimi of davao city
philippines and she requested for looking for juliet
[reads the letter]...i just want to tell you mimi that
my name has two N's not just one ok? (vanness smiles
)

--music video [Looking for Juliet]

MTV TRIVIA:
VJ UTT/DENISE: Which music video was Vanness in with
Run DMC and Jason Nevins?

VANNESS: To answer that trivia, the video is "IT'S
LIKE THAT" by Run DMC where i still had short hair and
you'll see that in a while...kenny of machi was also
in that video if you look closely...and we have a
request for that song from raditya of jakarta (had a
hard time reading the name and reads the
letter)...well. you really have a beautiful name but
i'm just so stupid that i don't know how to read it,
sorry..

--music video [It's Like That] *he was so young in
this video..had short hair and had more weight than
today but still cute as ever...he was the one wearing
a checkered polo 

VANNESS: welcome back and you're still watching MTV
Most Wanted...we have a request from Rosita of
Indonesia (then comments on howbeautiful the letter is
and how much effort was put into making it)...here's i
hate myself by me 

--music video [I Hate Myself]

*end of show
*thanks to CRISSY of Faithful4ever
http://s2.invisionfree.com/faithful4ever

24/3 - HK's most lovable purity male celebrity: ZZ,
Voted by Hongkong's RICH WOMEN

When talking about how much does a male celeb 'cost',
not only we
talk about his salary, there's one more new perspect
we look for --
how much is needed to 'buy' a male celeb. From China's
news report,
they made a special survey and research to find out
what type of male
celeb Hongkong rich women wants and how much they are
willing to pay
for a male celeb.

The results were surprising and it came out to be
Taiwanese Boyband
F4's youngest hot baby ZaiZai Zhou Yu Min who topped
amongst so many
male celebs. These rich women are very generous and
are willing to
pay 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 HKD to 'buy' and feed Zaizai for 1
year.

It has been very common when businessmen booked hot
female celeb. It
wasnt rare anymore. However, rich businesswomen
nowadays turned the
world around!! They used money to buy relationship and
love!!! Their
survey results stated that during 1980s, these women
love to see
Leslie Cheung as he looks pretty good. During those
days, some women
were willing to pay Leslie 1 Million HKD to 'own' him
for 1 year.
These figures overwhelmed many other male celeb's
wages. And now to
1990s, Butter-faced Leon Lai was the hot pick. Some of
these women
offered 1.6million to 'own' him for 1 year. Then, Tony
Leung and
Aaron Kwok were placed 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Now the successor of the 1990 hot pick of the ladies
was ZZ ZHOU YU
MIN!!!! Just because of Meteor Garden, it rocketted
him in all
countries especially in HK too. Out of so many hot
picks, ZZ was
offered the most in the century! ZZ gives a very shy
but gentle
appearance, and a mind of purity boy. This then proven
that there is
no need to be muscular in order to achieve a place in
women's heart.

Jerry Yan and Jay Chou were then placed 2nd and 3rd
respectively.
However whenever male celebs hear these news, they
always turned away
from that conversation. They rather film more movies
and release more
album than being called a "Xiao Bai Lian"(takes money
from women
only; useless).

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Source: Lian He Zao Bao // ZBnow

Thanks to the zaichos of tsinoy.com

F4 MAY Be Breaking Up, According to StraitsTimes Asia

Beautiful Dreamers

Boyband F4 is (almost) dead. Long live Meteor Garden.
Three years after the Taiwanese idol drama phenomenon
hit our shores, idol drama series are still going
strong. What explains their continued success and what
can local drama makers learn from their popularity?

By Ho Ai Li

F4 MAY be breaking up, but the passion for idol-drama
serials which the Taiwan boyband helped to pioneer
remains hot.

LACKLUSTRE: Local series Fantasy with Michelle Saram
and Chen Hanwei failed to take off.

In 2001, their trailblazing Meteor Garden revitalised
Taiwanese TV drama serials and made the quartet -
Jerry Yan, Vic Chou, Vanness Wu and Ken Zhu -
household names from China to the Philippines.

Naysayers at first said Meteor Garden, which spawned a
successful sequel in 2002, was merely a passing fad.

But three years later, idol dramas, which are targeted
at viewers in their teens to the 20s, are still going
strong.

Mr Paul Chan, SPH MediaWorks' senior vice-president
(programming, branding and promotions), links their
hit formula to 'beautiful faces, beautiful shooting
locations, catchy soundtracks and fairy-tale plots'.

'Youth at this stage in life are making dreams. Never
mind if such 'dreams' are practical or not, they're
part of growing up. Idol dramas are really about
dreams,' he says.

The genre has gone on to spawn copycats in China like
Beach (2003), starring top Chinese actors Li Yapeng
and Zhou Xun.

It has also spun off Taiwanese-Korean collaborations
like Scent Of Love (2003), and Taiwanese-Singapore
efforts like Westside Story (2003), now airing on
Channel U.

Whereas the early efforts were a sugary confection of
youthful dreams and fantasies, the latest hit idol
drama in Taiwan mixes in social realism, exploring
teen gangs with young and swoonsome leads.

Called The Outsiders or Tou-yu, the series, which is
sold as VCD sets here, stars newcomer Guo Pin-chao and
Lu Ming-chun.

Source: The StraitsTimes Asia
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/life/stor...,241920,00.html
Thanks to Kirsten of Faithful 4ever

When Critics Meet King of Pop Asia
Posted: March 24, 2004

The first single from Vanness's Wu's solo album Xun
Zhao Zhu Li Ye
is a tensile come-on sung old falsetto.
At first, it sounds like his first stop will not be
Dairy Queen.
But is he thinking what we're thinking?
When the chorus claims "Never Gonna Stop Never Ever
Stop
Ain't Gonna Give You Up,"
if you've seen Wu dancing in the video,
you'll guess one of the latter two. At the end of the
song,
Jian Hao is telling us to dance and the girl is gone.
The pace of the elements are perfect, creating an
erotic daisy
chain that pulls us toward each new sound. When the
next
thing arrives, you want it, bad. "Never Gonna Stop"
doesn't
pull off so much as the feeling of dancing to a more
danceable song
in front of the mirror.
A critically and commercially consensus—was "Yin Wei
Tai Ai Ni,"
a complete 180 from "Xiang Xiang Shi Ge Ni"'s
jackrabbit lust.
"Yin" is like puppy love, a CinemaScope ballad full of
generous
detail and disjunctive leaps and Wu's second
consecutive hit.
The song got an obvious boost from gossip columnists
seeing it as
it only pays to say he got a marvelous acting in a
video like this,
but less obvious was the response from music critic
Ross:
"In the past year, critics found themselves in the
faintly
embarrassing position of having to hail Wu's BWS as
one of the
better records of the year." The embarrassment must be
Ross',
as the critics didn't exhibit much.
The daily newspaper reviews were uniformly positive.
But
Other Chinese has a track record of approaching pop
music with
one hand holding its nose, so calling Vanness an
embarrassment
is simply par for the course.
In fact, there is a historical trend for critics to
discount
hugely popular artists who sell to kids, especially
girls.
Sometimes, critics, borrowing a little fantasy back
from the
kids, like to pretend that these artists don't really
exist,
but truth to it, they do, Vanness does.

Source : vannesswu.tk
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http://onlyf4.proboards4.com

Zaizai Luan Che with trainer & Bi Shuai
Zhan Shen Outdoor scenes, 7 days 700 million

Zhan Shen , went to Sugo, Japan to flim outdoor scene,
just Zaizai's racing uniform and helmet, it already
cost about 50 million . Summing up the expenses for
the 7 days, they spent around 700 million. Cai Zhi
Ping said , " In order to give the quality feel, just
have to tender the pain and spend the money."

Edited from a japanese manga, Mars, with lots of heavy
racing as its important point. In order to give the
original feeling, they specially went to Japan to
flim. For Zaizai to really look like the professional
role in the comic, they specially made outfits for him
by a Japanese designer. Zaizai likes his own
appearence and the satisfication could be seen all on
his face.

Besides, the crew also invited the top 3 car racer
champions to be Zaizai's Ti Shen at the car racing
place. Zaizai, who loves to race , even started being
his trainer abilities, and hopes to have a friendly
match with the other party.

Other than Luan Che with the other guy, Zaizai even
compared who was more handsome. When meeting people,
he would say, " Is he or me more handsome?" Causing Da
S & Cai Zhi Ping to br dumbstruck. They could only
comfort Zaizai and said, " He's more handsome, but you
are better-looking." not offending both sides.

Thanks to Taiwan Appledaily.
Thanks OnlyF4

"Mars" - ZZ learns to be a racer

http://news.yam.com/photo_news/tvbs/images/200403/O20040324744799.jpg

The idol drama "Mars," adapted from a Japanese manga,
especially made
a trip to Xian Tai, Japan to film scenes. In order to
make the role,
Ling, that Zai Zai Vic Zhou will be portraying to
correspond the
original professional racer role in the manga.
Zai Zai, "I'm aware that the role is a professional
racer. This is
also my first time to try to act as a professional
racer in a drama.
The challenge is tremendous for me. We also called on
the famous Ah
Bu Dian Shi, hoping that he can portray this racing
role well."
Da S, "This is my first time at an official race track
and I think
it's very fresh. I hope that will go smoothly."
At the same time, the manufacturing unit invited the
GP champion of
Japan, Ah Bu Dian Shi to be Zai Zai's coach. They also
compared their
handsomeness on the spot.
Ai Sha: "Are you ready?"
Zai Zai: "Yes."
Ai Sha: "Are you nervous?"
Zai Zai: "No."
Ai Sha: "Jia you."
However, it's evident that this equipped Zai Zai,
technology-wise
still needs some work.
Ai Sha: "Are you really ready? Ok, Ok, start! So
handsome."
Later…
Zai Zai: "Just a moment ago I skid, the first time."
Ai Sha: "Really?"
Zai Zai: "Yeah, I skid the first time. Did you see
it?"
Ai Sha: "Then did he pass? Is this ok?"
Ah Bu Dian Shi: "OK."

Source: http://news.yam.com/tvbs
Translated by Amy of http://f4ever.azn.nu