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Kozmo was founded in 1997 by former Goldman Sachs associates Joseph Park and Yong Kang, and opened its first operation in New York. As of last week, the company had grown to offer services in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington...
...result is Kuon Puos Keng Kang, The Snake King's Child, one of the first major film productions in Cambodia since the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s. Considering the recent history of the land of the Killing Fields, few countries have more stories to tell on film, but no one's telling them. Fay Sam Ang's film, which was released last month to coincide with the Year of the Snake?Cambodians also celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year?is designed to change that and spark a cinematic rebirth of what was once a thriving industry. "I think...
...During the 1960s reign of cinema-loving Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Phnom Penh had more than 30 theaters, mostly showing local movies. Sihanouk himself, now the country's King, was an enthusiastic producer, director, scriptwriter, star and music composer. One of the era's classics was 1960's Puos Keng Kang (The Snake King) by director Tea Lim Kun, which retold a Cambodian legend of a peasant woman seduced by the king of the snakes...
...decided to update Puos Keng Kang, and tried to find a copy of the original, but none was available in his country. The Khmer Rouge had destroyed them all. But Fay Sam Ang , like most Cambodians, knew the old Snake-Meets-Girl story. (In a memorable scene in the new film, a 4.5-m python borrowed from a local temple slithers on top of soap star Ampor Tevy and darts its tongue at her face.) The snake impregnates the peasant woman. Her husband returns from a trip, discovers her infidelity and slits open her belly, releasing hundreds of tiny snakes...
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