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Entrepreneurs in Chengdu dabble in many things, but few are as versatile as Zhang Wu, 36, who owns a construction firm, an appliance store, a beauty shop and a nightclub. The son of an officer in Chiang Kai-shek's army, Zhang was branded a counterrevolutionary and he languished behind bars for a dozen years before being freed in 1977. Though Zhang is so wealthy he can afford a car, the ultimate luxury, he still feels ostracized. "People look down on me because I was in jail for political reasons," he says, perhaps ignoring the fact that some may suffer...
...time, between World War I and World War II, segregation concentrated all levels of black society in Grand Boulevard, and a thriving nightclub scene attracted both blacks and whites to hear Duke Ellington, the Mills Brothers and Cab Galloway. Growing up in Pennsylvania, Alfred L. Bishop, now a funeral director on 47th Street, used to listen on his radio to Earl ("Fatha") Hines broadcasting "from the beautiful Grand Terrace theater in Chicago, Illinois." A dreamy, romantic-sounding place...
MICROPHONE STAND -- Got into trouble (again) for tossing one while performing at a Greenwich Village nightclub, hitting a patron in the head; pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct...
Zaccagnino and Veritas dropped their first compilation disc on May 6, 2004, at the Roxy, a nightclub in Boston’s theater district that doubles as a popular and intimate music venue. Unable to remember the exact date in the interview, Zaccagnino spins around to expose the back of his white t-shirt, where the date of the launch party is printed. Underneath in magic marker, he has written the date of the 2005 CD launch party, which took place at a College pub night...
Miranda Richardson, the leading lady of Dance with a Stranger, is no relative of Joely's, but she handsomely fills her star-is-born role as Ruth Ellis, the London nightclub hostess who in 1955 murdered her boyfriend and became the last woman executed in Britain. Coiffed and coutured in the Marilyn Monroe fashion, Richardson shrieks her way through Ruth's sordid life with coloratura bravura. "I love you," murmurs David Blakely (Rupert Everett), a spoiled, sodden rich boy with a passion for racing cars and a taste for tarts. "Everybody does," Ruth shrugs. "Why should you be different...