Word: ouyang
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every passionate pilgrim needs a guide, and Big Bird's is a six-year-old charmer named Ouyang Lianzi. She is a Chinese Shirley Temple without that child star's cloying cuteness, and she steals the show. Stone selected her from among 100 videotaped auditions sent to him from China. The only difficulty was that Lianzi did not speak a syllable of English. Before filming, Stone mailed her an audio cassette of her 64 lines; helped by her father, she memorized them phonetically without understanding their meaning...