Andy Lau’s smooch once sent co-star’s tooth ‘flying’

HONG Kong superstar Andy Lau once bumped into another actress with such force during a kissing scene that he knocked off one of her front teeth, China Press reported.

He admitted to the blunder during an interview on the variety show, Memories Beyond Horizon, recently.

“Yes, it is true. The star you are referring to is Maggie Cheung,” an apologetic Lau said.

The incident happened during the filming of As Tears Go By (1988), where Lau had a scene with Cheung inside a telephone booth.

It was the first time that Lau and Cheung had worked together, so their fans speculated that nerves were the cause of the accidental unfortunate bump.

The Hong Kong Film Awards Association selected the film, which marked Wong Kar-wai’s directorial debut, as one of the Best 100 Chinese Films in 2005.

> A master’s degree holder and two bachelor’s degree holders have been found to be working for a state-run crematorium amid rising youth unemployment in China, forcing graduates to take on whatever jobs they can find, Sin Chew Daily reported.

This was revealed by a local press outlet in Guangdong province, which obtained a list of new hires for the Guangzhou city funeral services last year.

Among the newly hired cremation workers were someone with a Master of Arts in Buddhist Studies from Chinese University Hong

Kong, another employee with a Polymer Materials and Engineering degree from the Guangdong University of Technology, and one with an architecture degree from the South China University of Technology.

The list of recruits went viral online, sparking a debate on the difficulties of finding a job today in China.

According to a job advertisement by the crematorium, the minimum requirement to become a cremation worker was to have a college education, two years of working experience, a driver’s licence, and the willingness to work night shifts.

Some netizens criticised the master’s degree holder for “robbing” less-educated applicants of the opportunity to become a cremation worker.

Others, however, pointed out that there were no jobs deemed too menial and that there was no law stopping a graduate student from becoming a cremation worker.