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...interval complaining about his job. Three minutes with a man who smells like dirt and sulphur is an eternity. Of the seven men that I date, there are two I would like to get to know better. It would be three, but I scare off the cop with the sweet smile when I enthusiastically ask how many dead bodies he's seen. Well, now he knows what the hell's wrong with me. But at least I can keep a beat. If music be the food of love, then salsa be the messy leftovers: A roomful of strangers, all different...
...McClintock is a sweet-tempered evangelist of the Christian faith, and like every Westerner who has journeyed to Cathay since Marco Polo, he finds himself bedazzled by China's masses and her mystery. He is asked if he is a bit overwhelmed by his new life in Shanghai. "I came here to play the game," says the Man Who Would Be Ming. "No matter where you are, basketball comes down to one thing. Put the ball in the hole...
...Though its pace drags and its tone is too unvarying, the movie shares the sweet melancholy of the novel. Both versions evoke a wistful longing for the irretrievable drama of youth. Teenage pals Ma (Liu Ye) and Luo (Chen Kun), inheritors of the bourgeois crimes of their doctor parents, are sent for re-education to the primitive if not remarkably picturesque mountain village of Phoenix on the Sky. The work is tough and the conditions harsh. Even worse, all books are banned?except little red ones. Western music is equally verboten as Ma, the film's violin-playing narrator, discovers...
...even the bitterest of adolescences can turn sweet with the passage of time and the onslaught of nostalgia. Author and filmmaker Dai Sijie proved this when he hit literary gold in 2000 with Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, his semi-autobiographical tale of discovering literature and love as a member of China's lost generation. Now Dai, who spent 1971 to 1974 exiled in a village in the mountains of Sichuan province, has directed a big-screen version of his fable, The Little Chinese Seamstress (naming it "Balzac," one suspects, wouldn't sell tickets...
...performance, he could hardly hide from the producers and angels. But why would he want to? Hirschfeld seemed perfectly at ease with himself, his work and his Great White World. He knew how hard it was to create a good play. In 1947 he had worked on a show - "Sweet Bye and Bye," collaborating with S.J. Perelman on the book while Ogden Nash and Vernon Duke did the songs - only to see it expire out of town. Hirschfeld called it a mercy killing...