Word: lindo
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...natural sympathy for the Carmichaels is sabotaged by crude and careless moviemaking. The first half of the film is a jumble of pointless anecdotes that fail to pull into a compelling narrative scheme or establish characters of any dimension. The boys squabble endlessly, humorlessly, inconsequentially, and Lindo and Woodard, both fine actors, are given only one note apiece to sound, respectively patience and impatience. In a middle passage, little Troy is sent to visit relatives in the South for no particular reason, except possibly to register Lee's disdain of smug bourgeois ways, and to contrast this with the fractiousness...
...Carmichaels are a middle-class black family living in Brooklyn in the early '70s. The father, Woody (Delroy Lindo), is a jazz musician who doesn't get much work because he only wants to play music he respects. He is easygoing and indulgent of his children, four boys and a girl, Troy (played by the adorable and spirited Zelda Harris in her first major role). The mother, Carolyn (Alfre Woodard), is hardworking and hard-nosed. She loves the kids but believes in discipline and denial...
...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...