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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...
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...
...ANGELES: Dr. Haing S. Ngor escaped the killing fields of his native Cambodia only to be gunned down on a street in L.A.'s Chinatown. Ngor, who won an Academy Award for portraying Dith Pran in "The Killing Fields" in 1984, was apparently shot to death outside his home Sunday night. "Haing Ngor was a man of great strength and courage, and seemed to me always prepared to meet his death," Oliver Stone, who directed Ngor in "Heaven and Earth" two years ago, told the Associated Press Monday. "For him to be killed so senselessly -- whatever the motive -- shows...
...will continue as director of the Chinatown Team Program, said he issued his resignation because of personal reasons...