Chinese film actress Gong Li wants to enroll at Beijing University as a social studies researcher. But the university’s website “has been flooded with hate mail, saying that should the star of such critically-acclaimed movies as ‘Farewell My Concubine’ and ‘Raise The Red Lantern’ be accepted, it would be because of her fame and good looks. Others wrote in to say the university should ‘hang its head in shame’ if her application was successful. – The Straits Times (Singapore)