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By mid-August, Chen was under house arrest for his activities. Seven people, he and his wife say, were stationed outside his home to watch him. But Chen felt he had to escape to Beijing to continue with the lawsuit. On the evening of Aug. 25, while police snoozed outside...
It is wonderful to encounter movie people when they have just come off a tough location shoot, especially if they are as bright and observant as Spalding Gray, who had a small part in The Killing Fields when it was shot in Thailand in 1983. As one of those functionaries...
The writer-performer understands that a movie company working in the Third World is a colonial microcosm. Its technology is imperious in its imperatives; its largesse inevitably provokes all sorts of mutually exploitative muddles with the locals. This is a valid, if modest, insight, and Gray projects himself agreeably as...
In 1973, during China's Cultural Revolution, Pingsha Dong, originally from Dalian, was transplanted for re-education into the hinterland, where the schools reduced the curriculum to communist rote. Before he left, his father told him that no matter what the risk, "you need to learn." So, after 16 hours...
Chavez enjoys presiding over her 10,000-sq.-ft. store and 35,000 sq. ft. of storage buildings, providing her customers with everything from hay to plumbing supplies to power tools. But in addition, like all baby boomers who have plunged into unconventional fields, she relishes the novelty of her...