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...first family of Asian food in Houston, Gigi Huang's might be it. Her father opened Hunan Restaurant 27 years ago in the Galleria area, which has since become the city's prime shopping district. His was one of the first restaurants to move beyond "American chop suey," Huang says, and became a favorite of Houston's oil barons. A white-tablecloth place dominated by a massive copper mural and carved teakwood partition, Hunan is where Vice President Dick Cheney, then CEO of Halliburton, once was host of a contract-signing ceremony with senior Chinese officials...
Director Robert Longbottom (Side Show) skillfully adds Asian seasoning to a gourmet spread of Broadway showmanship. In the opening scenes, Mei-Li's escape from China is pantomimed simply, with the help of bamboo poles manipulated by actors. In the big production number Chop Suey, the chorus girls are dressed as Chinese-takeout boxes. Even that delightfully retro standard I Enjoy Being a Girl, which starts in Linda's dressing room and ends as a number at the club, comes roaring back as if it were brand...
...SYSTEM OF A DOWN Toxicity (Columbia) In a year filled with screaming nu-metal acts, this band screams loudest and most eloquently. Front man Serj Tankian has a soaring voice, but as he demonstrates on standouts Chop Suey! and Forest, he knows how to modulate, sounding like an angry cantor one moment and a choir boy the next. Guitarist Daron Malakian backs it all up with a fierce wall of fuzz...
...System of a Down Toxicity (Columbia) In a year filled with screaming nu-metal acts, this band screams loudest and most eloquently. Front man Serj Tankian has a soaring voice, but as he demonstrates on standouts Chop Suey! and Forest, he knows how to modulate, sounding like an angry cantor one moment and a choir boy the next. Guitarist Daron Malakian backs it all up with a fierce wall of fuzz...
...style as well as substance, Chop Suey not only explores Weber’s personal tastes but also replicates his particular creative process. Weber, we come to see, experiences the world as his own personal jewel-mine. He scavenges it for the choicest raw materials, then cuts and sets and polishes them until they shine with a luminousness only attainable through masterful craft. Simultaenously being a photographer, his god-like role extends even further: he doesn’t just create the world, he also presents it, selecting and cropping and editing it into one supreme final image. He works...