If you were a B-list celebrity hoping for that Big Break, to what lengths would you go to hog the media spotlight? Take a leaf from China-born Hollywood actress Bai Ling, who resorts to gate-crashing press conferences, kissing a female co-star and flashing copious amounts of flesh at every opportune moment. 

To steal – and murder – a line from a famous ditty in the musical The Sound Of Music, the question now plaguing media pundits seems to be: How do you solve a problem like Bai Ling?