Word: chinatown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...messages on his voice mail back in Illinois. There are interview requests and legislative updates from all over the country. An Omaha, Nebraska, doctor wonders where to send a $100 contribution. A Honolulu minister requests information to distribute. A New Yorker wants Grey to fight off-track betting in Chinatown. "Sometimes I feel like I'm riding a wave," he says, "and all I have to do is stand up on the board...
Seasons instruct us, then, in a subtler way of being; they initiate us into a process more universal than the new year (which is, after all, celebrated at one time in Chinatown and another time in midtown), and more flexible than moons. All of us have our own calendars (April 15 means taxes, and next Thursday is Cindy's birthday), and all of us think in terms of spring cleaning or fall fashions. But seasons induct us into a world of divisions that are never hard and fast (soft and slow, rather); they offer lessons about constancy and flux...
Russell's only film education came from a high school girlfriend who got into movies free through a relative, there wasn't much to do in suburban Larchmont, New York. "I saw Shampoo, Chinatown and Taxi Driver about five times," he recalls. After studying literature and government at Amherst, he toiled at various jobs while making short films. The director admits he mines material from a vein pretty close to home, and Flirting is based in part on his adopted sister's search for her biological parents. But when asked why his films treat parents with such disrespect...
Vincent, however, expresses little interest in the Asian-American community, and it quickly becomes clear that the two men have very different views. Vincent began his acting career on the "Chop Suey Circuit" performing for live audiences in Chinatown. He has enjoyed a successful career as an actor; he was even nominated for an Academy Award. But he has also faced a great deal of discrimination and has had to compromise his integrity in order to succeed in an industry dominated by whites. His desire to be an actor was so great that he prided himself on "never refusing...
Last weekend, I tried to escape February. I went to Chinatown for the first time, and I also walked around Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market for the first time in years. Doing something new invigorated me, but when I re-entered the Yard, it was unmistakably February again. Part of February's horror is that the month disguises itself. It dresses up in the form of a holiday for lovers (one that doesn't achieve its full effect if you pass it in Lamont, I might add) and a celebration of two great presidents. Most misleading of all, it contains...