Posted on: Wednesday, March 30, 2005

ISLAND LIFE SHORTS
Last call for Wong Kar-Wai film

Advertiser Staff

Sure, you can call yourself a Wong Kar-Wai fan if you've seen "In the Mood for Love" and "Chungking Express." But until you've seen "The Days of Being Wild" — the Chinese director's brilliant 1991 tracing of a handful of strangers' search for intimacy — you're as good as a Scorsese fan who hasn't gotten around to "Mean Streets." "Days" also is the first Wong film shot by Christopher Doyle, whose gorgeous cinematography would grace each of the director's subsequent films. Chinese cinema icons Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau, Tony Leung and the late Leslie Cheung star.

Don't miss its final screening at the Doris Duke Theatre, 1 p.m. today. Call 532-8768.

Therapy CD pacifies your pooch

There may be help for dogs that suffer from separation anxiety. Recordings that have been used successfully to calm babies have also soothed the savage beast in schnauzers, shih tzus and shepherds, according to Audio-Therapy, the manufacturer of the Baby-Go-To-Sleep CDs.

The CD, which includes a human heartbeat, has been repackaged as Canine Lullabies after tests showed it calmed fretting pooches, including many that were sick, injured, hyperactive or lonely. Cost: $15.95; see www.caninelullabies.com or call (800) 537-7748.

FINAL WORD

Current "Spamalot" Broadway star Eric Idle, 62, to Men's Health magazine:

"The only really useful thing about aging is, you can legitimately forget everybody's name. I ... do this on purpose, as they get wonderfully angry. 'This is Colin Powell,' I'll say when introducing ('Spamalot' director) Mike (Nichols) to someone, 'and you know his wife, Madonna.' ... (Diane Sawyer) smiles, but I know she wants to kill me."