Coco Pops

Dorothy Low for TIME.

Asian American singer Coco Lee stretches out on top of a Limousine in waiting for the Oscars ceremony In Los Angeles.

It's four days to the Oscars ceremony and CoCo Lee is having trouble sleeping. She and a group of kung-fu dancers have been rehearsing two hours a day preparing their rendition of A Love Before Time, the atmospheric theme from the acclaimed film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. But CoCo's recurring nightmare is that on the big night she'll end up showing her, um, wrong side. "I start on a huge platform raised at least two stories off the ground and I have to walk down a stairway, while singing, in five-inch heels," she explains. "My dream is that I trip and...

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