Only Zhang Ziyi spoke with a native Mandarin accent that Ang Lee wanted.

Ted Wong holds 2nd rank in Jeet Kune Do certified directly by Bruce Lee and was later promoted to Instructor under Dan Inosanto ; feeling that Bruce would have wanted to promote him.

The film for Leone was to have been a homage to classic writers from literature such as — Edgar Lee Masters ( Spoon River Anthology ), Ambrose Bierce (" An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge "), Mark Twain (" A military campaign that failed "), Stephen Crane ( The red badge of Courage ), and Margaret Mitchell ( Gone with the Wind ), of whose novel he had wanted to film a remake.

Lee wanted to break free of this image and take on more interesting acting roles.

Bruce Lee wanted no wind up movements or “ get ready poses ” before any of your strikes were thrown.

* Lee Murray-Former kickboxer and mixed martial arts champion, wanted for Securitas depot robbery.

Rhee wanted his protégé, Lee Gibung, elected as Vice President — a separate office under Korean law at that time.

Beauregard did send a division ( Maj. Gen. Robert Hoke's ) to Lee for the Battle of Cold Harbor, but Lee urgently wanted more and took the step of offering Beauregard command of the right wing of the Army of Northern Virginia for his cooperation.

Lee Iacocca wanted the new car, which returned the Mustang to its 1964 predecessor in size, shape, and overall styling, to be finished to a high standard, saying it should be " a little jewel.

According to David Lee Roth, this was listed in the technical portion of the contract not because the band wanted to make capricious demands of the venue, but rather as a test of whether the venue had actually read and properly honored the terms of the contract, as it contained other requirements involving legitimate safety concerns.

Ford President Lee Iacocca wanted a 1971 model that weighed less than 2, 000 pounds and that would be priced at less than $ 2, 000.

The Jeep Grand Cherokee was the driving force behind Chrysler's buyout of AMC ; Lee Iacocca wanted the design.

It was the Jeep brand that Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca really wanted – in particular the ZJ Grand Cherokee, then under development by Jeep engineers, which ultimately proved highly profitable for Chrysler ( the nameplate remains in production today ).

The founder, Robert Lee Madison, wanted to provide an education for the young people in the region and train teachers to spread education throughout the western part of the state.

Lee claims to have written the main riff to " Don't Talk to Strangers " ( which would later appear on the Holy Diver album ) and that Dio wanted him to play " simple block chords that wouldn't trample on his vocals ".

According to an account given by Lee Kuan Yew, the Chinese population wanted five stars, which were modeled off the flag of the People's Republic of China and the Muslim population wanted a crescent moon.

He had Mark Lee, the angelic-looking, ideal Australian kid, and he wanted something of a modern sensibility.

Faced with, amongst other things Lee Kuan Yew ’ s considerable rhetorical skills, Razak wanted young Malay leaders – grounded in their own faith and culture – who would be able to speak and if necessary debate both in the Malay language and English language.

Revolt in 2100: Lee Felsenstein was one of the founders of Community Memory, an offshoot of Resource One based in Berkeley, California that wanted to establish a communication system for people to contact each other.

However, theatre historian Lee Davis maintains that Freedley wanted the script changing because it was " a hopeless mess.

Kaylee, impersonating the Universal Studios president's secretary, sends Wolf to a child's birthday party to get vengeance for veteran stunt coordinator Vince ( Lee Majors ), an elderly employee of his whom he criticized and who had wanted to take his granddaughter to the same party.

He then decided he wanted to live closer to London, and sold the whole package in 1917 to Sir John Lee.

Lee used sequencers early in their development and has continued to use similar innovations as they have developed over the years.

Lee has also made use of digital samplers.

Combined, they enable Lee to use his free hands and feet to trigger sounds in electronic equipment that has been placed off-stage.

It is with this technology that Lee and his bandmates are able to present their arrangements in a live setting with the level of complexity and fidelity that fans have come to expect, and without the need to resort to the use of backing tracks or employing an additional band member.

Donald Featherstone also records a Lt. Col. Richard Lee of 44th Foot advocated the military use of the longbow in 1792.

This law conferred the Chequers Estate owned by Sir Arthur and Lady Lee, as a gift to the Crown for use as a country home for future Prime Ministers.

Spike Lee questioned Tarantino's use of racial epithets in his films, particularly the racially offensive epithet " nigger ".

In a Variety interview discussing Jackie Brown, Lee said: " I'm not against the word ... and I use it, but Quentin is infatuated with the word.

Lee also implemented the use of mortars on the Confederate line.

The use of phonics in American education dates at least to the work of Favell Lee Mortimer, whose works using phonics includes the early flashcard set Reading Disentangled ( 1834 ) and text Reading Without Tears ( 1857 ).

In 2004, the Bruce Lee Foundation decided to use the name Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do () to refer to the martial arts system that Lee founded.

Lee minimized the use of other stances except when circumstances warranted such actions.

* Kato ( Bruce Lee ) from The Green Hornet is the first fictional fighter to use Jeet Kune Do.

Though not all Method actors use the same approach, the " method " in Method acting usually refers to the practice, influenced by Constantin Stanislavski and created by Lee Strasberg, in which actors draw upon their own emotions and memories in their portrayals, aided by a set of exercises and practices including sense memory and affective memory.

Several notable exceptions exist in the Commonwealth of Virginia: the University of Virginia ( Charlottesville ), University of Mary Washington ( Fredericksburg ), George Mason University ( Fairfax ), Virginia State University ( Petersburg ), Virginia Commonwealth University ( Richmond ), Washington and Lee University ( Lexington ), the College of William and Mary ( Williamsburg ), Old Dominion University ( Norfolk ), and Virginia Tech ( Blacksburg ) use the term " Rector " to designate the head of the Board of Visitors.

He and brother Moses " Lee " prospered in ranching until the Range Law Act curtailed the right to use this land for grazing.

Together with Lee Dixon, Nigel Winterburn and Steve Bould, Adams was part of the " famous four " that lined up in Arsenal's defence, which under George Graham was renowned for its well-disciplined use of the offside trap.

There is lost material in all genres – as late as 1993, a large number of videotaped children's programmes from the 1970s and 1980s were irretrievably wiped by Adam Lee of the BBC archives on the assumption that they were of " no use ", without consulting the BBC children's department itself.

" Lee cites Theodore Kelsey, a Living Treasure of Hawai ' i renowned for his work as a Hawaiian translator who wrote a letter to Long in 1936 ( now in the Hawai ' i State Archives ) criticizing his use of the terms " unihipili " and " aumakua.

On September 5, 1913, Lee Simms became the first person in Arkansas to be executed by use of the electric chair.

At first, Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh influenced his alto saxophone playing style, and later John Coltrane shaped Young's use of the sopranino saxophone.

The National Labor Committee brought sweatshops into the mainstream media in the 1990s when it exposed the use of sweatshop and child labor to sew Kathie Lee Gifford's Wal-Mart label.

Mrs. Lee Mida would use Mount Plymouth as her temporary place of residence while participating in Florida State golfing tournaments.