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...gets hit by a car while rollerblading down a busy street. As four hip Hong Kong lads clamber out of the car to check if she's O.K., Mok adjusts herself, stands back up on the blades and calls them "a bunch of f____ing d___heads." They stare gormlessly at the Chinese beauty who stands before them delivering a beautifully intonated insult?in English. It's a scene that defines Mok, soign? with plenty of street. The girl plays both, with aplomb...
...earlier, the film’s world is one that, by necessity, no average onlooker is supposed to understand. Weber’s are subjects whose very existence is dependent on the level of mystery and intrigue that surround their names and images. We’re supposed to stare at them, to be arrested and impressed and maybe even obsessed…but certainly not to understand them. That wouldn’t be right; it wouldn’t seem fair...
...little notebook full of ideas and sentences that I haven’t used yet. I get writer’s block more from fear, from not feeling up to the challenge of getting into my character’s heads and emotions. So instead I’ll stare into space, dye my hair, eat something fatty and spicy. I can’t find enough big chunks of time to write these days, so I’ll keep notes and write stuff on my arms and transfer them to paper later. Or I’ll underline...
Hardly a night passes when I don't stare down a chocolate chip cookie, until, in a flash, I break. Before I know it, I scarf down the entire thing. When done, I forget about it and get on with my life...
...Winter Garden; it has enough wonderfully wasted space to remind me of the dear dead original Penn Station. And across the plaza, the Hudson River, potent and polluted, Circe seducer of the first European settlers to this tiny plot of land nearly 400 years ago. Sit on a bench, stare out at the river and watch the history of American exploration, immigration and commerce surge...