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• Steamy Thai nights provide the backdrop for unbridled romance, crime and action as two men unexpectedly brave forbidden love. Maek, a cold assassin-for-hire, is sent to knock off Iht, a police informant, when in a twist of fate the killer is shot for refusing to pull the trigger. After making their escape, an indelible bond is forged when the vulnerable assassin is nursed back to health by handsom

Based on the true story of Thailand's famed transgendered kickboxer, Beautiful Boxer is a poignant action drama that punches straight into the heart and mind of a boy who fights like a man so he can become a woman. Believing he's a girl trapped in a boy's body since childhood, Parinya Charoenphol (affectionately known as Nong Toom in Thailand) sets out to master the most masculine and lethal sport of Muay Thai (Thai kickboxing) to earn a living and to achieve his ultimate goal of total femininity.un! a doppia vita nella thai boxe. i guantoni o lo smalto per le unghie?entrambe le cose vanno bene, per adattarsi meglio ad una realta' che sembra sempre offrire a nong toom il suo lato piu' spigoloso. la vicenda di un atleta maschio che impara a non dissimulare piu' la propria femminilit nemmeno sul ring potrebbe far pensare, almeno dalle nostre parti, ad uno sfoggio di fantasia irrequieta e di esotismo. al contrario, si viene a sapere che lispirazione arrivata dalle reali, tormentate vicissitudini di tale parinya charoenphol, noto in thailandia come pugile-travestito e soprannominato dal suo pubblico, pare in modo affettuoso, nong toom. questo campione dai colpi pesanti e dallanimo delicato si aggiudicato lincontro pi difficile il 5 dicembre 1999, ossia quando se ne uscito da un ospedale di bangkok vestendo finalmente un corpo femminile.Studio: Strand Releasing Release Date: 04/06/2006This digital document is an article from Business Mexico, published by American Chamber! of Commerce of Mexico A.C. on June 1, 2004. The length of the! article is 518 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: The beautiful people.
Author: Matthew Brayman
Publication: Business Mexico (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2004
Publisher: American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico A.C.
Volume: 14 Issue: 6 Page: 62(1)

Distributed by Thomson GaleThe follow-up to 2005's "Alligator" is filled with lush arrangements and sees the band incorporating new instrumentation and expanded musical elements such as piano, trumpet, and more prominent background vocals. "...churning grooves and shambling new wave rips, turning up depressed guitar poetry that's ! both elegantly wasted and kinda murky" - Rolling Stone. "The National traffic in poignant moments of heartbreak and regret, but pain has rarely sounded so beautiful" - Spin.With Boxer, the National have reached four albums into their increasingly lauded career, never hurrying the tempo, never over-reaching in volume or instrumental density. Instead, the quintet's balanced on a pin, emotionally austere, if not utterly downhearted, finding brilliantly dusky ways for Matt Berninger's lovelorn voice to mesh with a pair of unobtrusive guitars and, here, an occasional phalanx of piano, horns, and strings. The tunes roll off slowly, Berninger's lyrics hugging the instruments with a sad brawn, rough-hewn as the drums and bass toy with angularity (try "Mistaken for Strangers," for one) but end up woven by that voice. Drummer Bryan Devendorf presses the songs forward repeatedly, as on "Start a War," where he gently thumps the time as the acoustic guitars frame and dot the melo! dy, coalescing as the drums starkly chisel the melody. Nary a! distort ion pedal is harmed on Boxer, giving the National a magnetism so forlorn that you can't stop listening. --Andrew BartlettSteamy Thai nights provide the backdrop for unbridled romance, crime and action as two men unexpectedly brave forbidden love. Maek, a cold assassin-for-hire, is sent to knock off Iht, a police informant, when in a twist of fate the killer is shot for refusing to pull the trigger. After making their escape, an indelible bond is forged when the vulnerable assassin is nursed back to health by handsome, married Iht. But as taboo feelings of desire swell between the swarthy new lovers, their relationship is discovered. Now there s no turning back as enemies, friends and lovers are pitted against each other.