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...interview with Pamela Burdman of the San Francisco Chronicle, Wu summarized his main goal--to make laogai "an English word...

Author: By Christopher T. Boyd, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dissident Harry Wu to Give Speech | 10/31/1997 | See Source »

Three Wise Fools. This picture fractures celluloid tradition shamefully. It has three heroes, every one 60 years old. The heroine (Eleanor Burdman) kisses them consistently on the forehead instead of on the lips. Though the picture is played in a so-called "society" atmosphere, not a flapper or a bar of jazz is introduced. Could anything be more unorthodox? The strain was too great for the nice, old-fashioned director. At the last moment he rushed in a bandolined beauty (male) for the heroine to marry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jul. 30, 1923 | 7/30/1923 | See Source »

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