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...same theme: the sacrifices that old-fashioned parents and modern kids make for one another. Handsome, Taiwan-born Wai-tung (Winston Chao) is doing well in Manhattan real estate and has a loving lover, Simon (Mitchell Lichtenstein). But his parents back home -- the General (Sihung Lung) and Mrs. Gao (Ah-leh Gua) -- urgently want a grandchild. How do you arrange a marriage if your son is gay? Not so hard, if he doesn't tell you. Easier still, if he arranges it himself, after Simon suggests that Wai-tung wed Wei-wei (May Chin), a pretty artist who's behind...
...Ah, Sam Cohn. It is astonishing how recently (that is, during Jay Maloney's teenage years) Cohn was singularly powerful. Indeed, he was the first superagent of the modern age, a forerunner of Maloney's boss Mike Ovitz as a finger-in-every-pie packager who represented the writer and the director and the stars of a given production. Deep into the 1980s, Cohn had an impressive plurality of the stars and filmmakers with claims to blue-chip seriousness: Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Lily Tomlin, Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams, Robert Altman, Bob Fosse, Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen, Nichols...
...drool over the alluring brochures. Ah, the pristine beaches. Elegant cafes. Spectacular mountain scenery. It all sounds great. Then you look at the fine print: the beaches are in the poverty-racked Gaza Strip, the cafes in bombed-out Dubrovnik, the mountains in war-torn eastern Turkey. They have got to be kidding...
...movie. This is a K-12 school that provides another option for parents who don't want to put their kids in the public school system (a constant problem in Memphis) but don't want single-sex or fundamentalist schools. (It's my brother's school, too.) Ah, the Bible Belt. It lives...
...today I've still got to press on to page 250. I just feel so corny here writing like an idiot. Anyway it's hard to get my head out of the bummer this place is giving me. Dam it I can't write. I'm too bummed out." Ah, the anguish of creation! The visitor knows what he means...