Karen Mok sends pictures from Italy; Maggie Q beats the publicity drums for "Nikita"

Not sure if the photographer was trying for a romantic, sepia-toned look with Karen and Johannes and messed it up or if these are just poorly done pictures. Here they are overlooking Florence.

"I would have been GREAT in "Titanic"

Xinhua

Maggie Q was looking quite stern and cleavagey in these pictures to remind us to tune in to "Nikita" sometime.

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A remake for tough girl Maggie Q in the October Vogue

The stylists at "Vogue" got Maggie Q out of her hyper-butch "Nikita" gear

and her more typical off duty jeans and bare midriff

and into a literal bed of roses. While the picture at the top looks like half the shots of Jennifer Lopez in fashion magazines over the past decade there are no points awarded for originality at "Vogue".

A nice look for Ms. Q although one would expect her to have a knife or at least a garrotte stashed somewhere in those outfits.

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Maggie Q at the Met Gala

Maggie Q looked stern (still in character for Nikita ?) at the Met Costume Institute Gala, always the biggest Spring red carpet event on the East Coast. Invited by Hong Kong luxury retailer Lane Crawford, she was in a stunning, shimmering beige Tadashi Shoji dress with a satin accent emphasizing her waist.

Soft beige/champagne with big cloth flowers were everywhere including this Alexander McQueen number worn by honorary chair Salma Hayek Pinault so Maggie was in good company.

The guy behind and to the right of Salma Hayek seems nonplussed--maybe he is on mouse patrol on one of the furry rodents is scurrying around on the red carpet.

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For those interested in how Maggie Q dresses for the farmer's market

Zimbio brings us three pictures of Maggie Q doing her shopping on Sunday over the caption Maggie Q picks up some fresh produce at a Los Angeles farmer's market. Maggie is set to return to the small screen soon in The CW's "Nikita".

She must have been a target of opportunity for the paparazzo/stalker/photographer since Zimbio sent it out under the odd heading: Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz spends Father's Day at a Los Angeles farmer's market with his five-year-old daughter.

For the numberless Maggie Q starved masses:

A real journalist would have found out what she had in the bag.  : =)


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Maggie Q as the new "La Femme Nikita" on the small screen.

It started with Anne Parillaud in Nikita. In truth it started for me with this poster in the lobby of one of the few art house cinemas in snow-bound industrial wasteland of southeast Michigan:

One look convinced me that La Femme Nikita, as it was renamed for U.S. release, was a must see movie.
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Then there was Briget Fonda in the U.S. remake, Point of No Return (or perhaps No Point For This Movie) that wasn't really bad, just a step down in every way from the original. Since one critic wrote that Nikita meant the end of French cinema since it was so obviously based on the worst of American film the remake might have at least legitimized the original since it had to be remade.

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Peta Wilson made a name for herself in the many seasons of La Femme Nikita which we watched back in the days when we still watched TV. There were many decent stories spread over three or four episodes and some excellent single shows. Plus more than a few duds but it showed that the formula worked.

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One of what I assume to be many "re-imaginings" of the concept was the Hong Kong movie starring the all but divine Jade Leung, Black Cat plus its remakes.

Any action movie with Jade Leung is worth watching--or at least worth watching her in it.
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Now The New York Times announces that Nikita will star the actress Maggie Q "in the title role as a spy and assassin for a top secret U.S. government agency," the CW said in a news release. It is something of a reboot for the La Femme Nikita film, television and book franchise.

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This picture from Live Free or Die Hard could well be the kind of action we will see Maggie Q in on the new Nikita