Even as his health causes him to diminish his role in Apple, the Taiwanese just can't seem to get enough of Steve Jobs -- either in person or in the doppelganger department.

Readers will remember a column I wrote earlier about a TV ad campaign in Taiwan that used an American expat named Brook Hall to play Jobs in a very convincing ''press conference'' at a Hsinchu Science Park setting.

That ad campaign was a real ad campaign and completely above board.

But now some disreputable punters in Taipei have drilled down a bit by ...

Hollywood is full of immigrants from Europe and Asia, not to mention Africa and South America -- but when it comes to the name game, what is the proper order for family names in English?

Should we refer to Taiwanese director as Lee Ang (Mr. Lee is his formal name, being the descendant of a long line of Lees in China and Taiwan) or should we bow to convention and call him Ang Lee?

What do the credits on his early movies say? When he got an Oscar for "Brokeback Mountain," what did the inscription say: Ang Lee or Lee Ang?

And what about the actress Bai Ling: Should we write her name as Ling Bai? And is it Li Gong or Gong Li? Or Zhang...

Ang Lee grew up in southern Taiwan, first in a place called Pintung, before moving to the neighboring county of Tainan.

His father was born in mainland China but moved to Taiwan as a young man and married a local woman from the southern part of the colorful island.

How Ang Lee grew up to become one of Hollywood's top film directors -- "Ice Storm," "Taking Woodstock," "The Life of Pi" -- is a story that will someday be told in a good book that a film scholar in New York or Los Angeles will no doubt write.

But there is one thing you should know about Ang Lee...

Movies about food fetishes, chefs, and food bloggers make for popular fare worldwide, from Mexico to Manhattan.

And when "Julie & Julia" hit the silver screen across the country and overseas as well, foodies across the globe were in some kind of seventh heaven.

You remember the story, of course, about a New Yorker named Julie Powell, a blogger who spent a year cooking every recipe from Julia Child’s ''Mastering the Art of French Cooking'"

The Nora Ephron film takes Child’s memoir, ''My Life in France'' and magically and seamlessly merges Julie's blogging life and Julia's real life into one funny, laugh-out-loud flick.

But laugh no more. You might be shocked to know that on the other side of the planet, a blogging food critic...