Word: joans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that was undercut somewhat by the lack of humidity, a condition to which the group's rare, expensive instruments are sensitive. Still, they kept some monstrous repeats from being boring, choosing unpredictable phrasings and doing an unforgettable job of blending, without becoming indistinct especially the harder-to-hear viola (Joan Ellersick). The tempi were on the whole a bit shy for Beethoven, but the musicians' attention to detail kept everything tight. The allegro finale was a marvel...
...that was undercut somewhat by the lack of humidity, a condition to which the group's rare, expensive instruments are sensitive. Still, they kept some monstrous repeats from being boring, choosing unpredictable phrasings and doing an unforgettable job of blending, without becoming indistinct especially the harder-to-hear viola (Joan Ellersick). The tempi were on the whole a bit shy for Beethoven, but the musicians' attention to detail kept everything tight. The allegro finale was a marvel...
...might sound like the ultimate East-goes-West success story. Chen Chong, the daughter of two Shanghai doctors, becomes a movie star at 15, is dubbed "the young Elizabeth Taylor of China" and, at 19, wins the country's top acting prize. She goes to America where, as Joan Chen, she stars in The Last Emperor, Twin Peaks and Oliver Stone's Heaven and Earth. Chen shuttles between East and West, playing fiercely intelligent seducers in the Hong Kong Temptation of a Monk and Red Rose, White Rose while making onscreen love with Anne Heche in Hollywood's Wild Side...
...Joan Chen always asked, demanded, more of herself--certainly more than Hollywood wanted of her. "The only thing I achieved going to the States was that I became an exotic beauty," she says. "I did my best to give a version of Chinese-ness that the West was looking for. But I also understood that that version of me was worthless. I wanted to do something more serious." Clearly, Chen's striking beauty--searchlight eyes, long, strong neck and, it must be said, the most luscious mouth on either side of the Pacific--is merely the wrapping for surpassing talent...
...during the Cultural Revolution but did not get sent down. "She was one of those people who did everything well," says her friend Yan. With grandparents educated at Oxford and parents educated at Harvard, Chen had the pedigree for success, as well as the stern expectations. Joan's father kept asking what she was going to do with her life. "In my family," Chen says, "going into acting was regarded as strange...