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Christina X. Fu takes out two Ziploc bags full of pictures of a man and two young children mugging for the camera...
...groups have been in Hollywood B movies since the black infant Allen (Farina) Hoskins joined the silent-screen Our Gang troupe in 1922. And though Asians can be glad they've gained leading-man status after years in the standard martial-arts Yellow Peril role?a kind of Kung Fu Manchu?the studios aren't exhibiting any social enlightenment in pairing them with blacks. Producers are just trying to make films with relatively inexpensive stars that will appeal to disparate markets: half-price actors for, potentially, twice the audience...
CULTURAL RHYTHMS. The Harvard Foundation presents the 16th annual Cultural Rhythms Festival, with hip-hop artist Queen Latifah as emcee. Featuring performances by over 30 student organizations, including the Kuumba singers, the Chinese yo-yo team, the kung fu club, and other ethnic groups. Should be stunning and diverse as always. Saturday, Feb. 22, 3–5 p.m. Food reception to follow in the Science Center, and a free student-emceed second show at 7:30 p.m. Tickets $10 for Harvard ID-holders (limit 2 per person) at the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. Sanders Theater, Memorial Hall...
...residence's Qing-dynasty compound is rumored to have once been the home of Kuomintang General Fu Zuoyi and served as both an infirmary and message center for the Communist government. In the late 1960s, a bomb shelter was dug out from under the courtyard on the orders of Lin Biao, Mao's then-heir apparent. Brahm has turned it into the three-chambered Bomb Shelter Bar, a lushly decorated wine and cigar lounge where you can sip red Bordeaux while watching vintage films, such as The East Is Red and Ballet of the Red Detachment of Women. Brahm...
...Nicholas Ray, George Stevens. The Messiah has been portrayed with stolid reverence (in Franco Zeffirelli's Jesus of Nazareth) and Surrealist blasphemy (Luis Bunuel's L'Age d'Or). Often he sings: in Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar, in a born-again Bollywood musical and in the Canadian kung-fu horror comedy Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter...