Gong Li gets promoted

Gong Li moves up from knight to commander--you read it here second. Dennis Lee points to an article in CRIEnglish on the news that Gong Li, named in 2008 as a Knight of the French Legion of Honor is now a Commander. She was presented with the medal that is the insignia of her new rank at the French Pavilion of the Shanghai World Expo 2010. A tip of the Favorite Actresses cap to correspondent V Guerrero who emailed us yesterday with the news.

Pictures of the honoree with her medal from CRIEnglish:

It is difficult to imagine a more approriate resting place for an emblem of an honor from the French Republic:

On April 30 Gong Li and Alain Delon showed each other around the French Pavilion each looking excrutiatingly glamorous:

They know how to draw a crowd and how to deal with a crowd when it arrive.