Word: lindo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speak of none other than Irene S. Ng '97, who played the adolescent Lindo in "The Joy Luck Club...
...Chinese" native of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and more recently, of Allentown, PA, the actress who played the adolescent Lindo in Wayne Wang's movie made her debut at Harvard this year--as a student, that is. Fresh from the glitz and razzmatazz of Hollywood, the 18-year old Ng has swapped her scripts and jet-setting lifestyle for good old-fashioned text-books and the coziness of 29 Garden Street. Drama has been placed on the backburner while she devotes herself to her studies. "It's too bad that I'm not honing my craft, but I have so much...
...looks back with nostalgia on the role of young Lindo. "It was a great role--there was a lot to memorize, and I had to be crazy and neurotic all day, but if fit me because I'm hyper and it's easy for me to be that way. It was challenging, though, to have to cry--I had to force myself...
Communication often takes theatrical forms likethis in the film, for the mother-daughtergeneration gap is exaggerated by culturaldifference. When Lindo (Tsai Chin) visits herdaughter's apartment, she chooses not to noticethat Waverly is living with her white boyfriend.Exasperated, Waverly throws open drawers andclosets and presents her mother with ties, boxersand suspenders...