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...hours into the lavish meal?where we mostly matched their Tsingtao toasts with shots of Coca-Cola?the only people who were beginning to talk frankly were the Yuhuan county officials. They thanked us for giving them an opportunity to enjoy such a lavish meal, showed off their new cell phones?"only $360 for this Motorola," said one, citing an amount equivalent to half a year's net income for a Yuhuan farmer?and began to disparage the panicked peasants in their charge. "Local farmers aren't very well educated," said Hu Hong, a director at Yuhuan's Foreign Affairs...
Much of this, of course, has to do with stars. Man of La Mancha got a lavish new production this season largely to give Brian Stokes Mitchell a role worthy of his baritone. Gypsy, last revived in 1989 with Tyne Daly, is about to return once again, primarily so that leading Broadway baby Bernadette Peters can continue to have gainful employment. Expect some critical carping about whether she's right for the brassy role of Mama Rose--but is there a more risk-free idea on all of Broadway...
...Will communist cinema still dominate once private studios gear up? The government thinks it has the winning formula. Its next big production is Luoi Troi (Heaven's Net), which chronicles the lavish spending of corrupt officials and criminals. Hoang, who as a state employee, makes less than $100 a month, is already thinking like a Hollywood mogul-he's penning a sequel, Bar Girls 2. Speculation about the plot is already rife, since the original's main characters are all either dead or dying of AIDS. "People will just have to buy a ticket and see," he says. No doubt...
Right now, space in Cambridge for the arts (and for most everything else) is bitterly contested. When everything gets sorted out in Allston, maybe there will be room somewhere for a lavish dance center and expansive museums. But maybe there should or could be more theaters, more practice rooms, more art studios, more dance facilities, more film and video and electronic-music labs. Maybe even a School of the Arts, which Harvard has never had: all it would probably take would be a rich donor, unfortunately not me, who would be willing to give $200 million plus, making it clear...
From flying President Clinton, Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker to Africa to explore the problems of AIDS and economic development facing the region, to hosting the world’s elite minds at his lavish homes in New York, Palm Beach, New Mexico and his private island hideaway, to funding outreach programs to curb the spread of Cholera in Bangladesh, it seems Epstein lets his curiosities guide...