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...Frankfurt Book Fair, and her publisher, Doubleday, had high hopes for it. But after the Dec. 26 tsunami devastated large parts of Asia, Doubleday felt compelled to select a new name, delay publication for a month, and go through the manuscript, changing scores of references to the eponymous Osaka hostess lounge where much of the action takes place. Despite that setback, the book has finally appeared, and it proves worth the wait. Sayonara Bar is a cocktail of astringent cultural observations, genres stirred and shaken, subplots served with a twist. At first, it seems to be the story of Mary...
Chosen as hostess for her accomplishments as a “distinguished actress, producer, singer, and humanitarian,” Pinkett Smith was given the award by Dr. S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation, and William R. Fitzsimmons ’67, dean of admissions and financial aid at the College...
...writing and exceptional drawing skills. Using what looks like a soft pencil and gray wash, she creates naturalistic drawings that camouflage what are actually carefully composed arrangements of gesture, posture and facial affect. One remarkable panel shows a Christmas dinner party at which Gemma and Charlie are seated. The hostess looms to the left, while a man scolds a child at the right, with all the other characters carefully positioned in the space to display a different state of mind. In a brilliantly satiric take on selfish love, Simmonds uses a thought balloon inside a thought balloon as Gemma fondly...
...Dangerous to Know was a film version of Edgar Wallace's On the Spot, which Wong had played on Broadway. She's the "hostess," i.e. mistress, of a gangster (Akim Tamiroff) with potent political connections. While he does all the heavy acting, she stands by, stoic and steaming, as, essentially, a housekeeper in her own house. She hasn't much more to do in the 1939 Island of Lost Men, where the strong man is J. Carrol Naish as the Oriental plantation boss Gregory Prin. She's a nightclub singer ("China Lily - Songstress of the Orient") and, again...
...Japanese artist depicted her successful battle with tax authorities in Dekirukana: Datsuzei (Daring Tax Evasion), a book that began as a magazine cartoon column in which she recounted her real-life adventures. These included testing a homemade radiological monitor at a nuclear power plant and working at a hostess bar, where her job was to stroke the fragile egos of lonely...