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Paralysis also threatens Charleston, South Carolina, where debates over the classroom use of a dragon-shaped hand puppet called Pumsy (Demonic!) and attempts to hire a new school nurse (An overture to abortion!) have smothered all classroom innovation. "There is a real fear among administrators and principals of being harangued for any new ideas, so they just don't do anything," says Robert New, the school-board chairman. "We have board members now saying that if a program is controversial, then maybe we should take it out." Yet Charleston's school board does not include a single Christian conservative. Mere...
Concubine is an Eastern film whose subject, scope and nonstop bustle will be agreeable to Western moviegoers. Anyone can appreciate the splendor of the theatrical pageantry or the dagger eyes of Gong Li as a dragon lady whose only commandment is survival. The scenes in the Peking Opera School, where boys are caned for doing wrong or right, are no less horrifying than the later tableaux of public humiliation at the hands of the Maoists. But Chen clearly sympathizes with the schoolmasters. From such brutality, he suggests, artists are created. Concubine offers another moral: From the crushing cultural restrictions...
...lesbian or gay characters. Perhaps if there had been, the movie could have been improved. Many all-male movies could certainly have been made more complex and realistic by including female characters. But "The Joy Luck Club" should not have the responsibility of representing all Asians, just as "Dragon" should not have been expected to focus on Asian women...
Yarrow sang some of his popular tunes from the 60s, including "Blowing in the Wind", "Puff the Magic Dragon" and "Day is Done...
...wrong; I thought "Dragon" was a great movie, and I've seen every Bruce Lee film at least three times. But why is it that he is the only thing close to being an Asian male role model? Why is it that an Asian man cannot be a heroic figure unless he stays within his cultural idiom, especially one so exaggerated as martial arts? Are we never to be seen as anything but strangers from another land, outsiders like Cain the Wanderer from the TV series Kung...