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...After a fortifying breakfast of creamy grits, scrambled eggs, and fried fish at the counter of legendary Sylvia's, I started my journey on the east side of 125th Street heading west along this artery of Harlem commerce...
...first heard him on WHAT (a white man on a black station; it happened then) in the winter of 1956-57. So Hy is the insinuating commentary running under my memories of certain prime cuts: Shirley and Lee's "Let the Good Times Roll," Mickey & Sylvia's "Love Is Strange," Fats Domino's "I'm in Love Again," Lee Andrews and the Hearts' "Long Lonely Nights" (co-written, according to the label, by Douglas Henderson). If Jocko was baritone, Hy Lit was a nervous tenor. A would-be-pro baseball player from the University of Miami, he called his listeners...
...emerged from that film all-woman, and her subsequent roles tended to place her as the young love interest of a middle-aged man (Jackie Chan, Gorgeous) or a destroyer of older men (Eric Tsang, My Loving Trouble). But she was missing out on some big roles. Taiwan director Sylvia Chang chose then Hong Kong It-Girl Gigi Leung over Shu Qi for Tempting Heart in 1999, fearing the growth of the character from teenage girl to mature woman would be too much of a stretch for Shu Qi. The actress, Chang feared, couldn't successfully communicate innocent. For good...
...back to Hong Kong to set local films racing to his own fevered pulse. The result was pop masterpieces like the kung fu fantasy Zu: Warriors of the Magic Mountain and the all-girl action comedy Peking Opera Blues. "His mind is like a video game," says actress-director Sylvia Chang, who starred in Tsui's delicious comedy, the 1984 Shanghai Blues. "He was a revolutionary when I first met him, and he still is today...
...panel discussion, titled "The Technology Revolution: Is Government Ready?" also included Harvard Visiting Fellow Sylvia Mathews '87, who was deputy chief of staff to former President Bill Clinton and Meredith Bagby '95, the author of We've Got Issues: the Get Real, No B.S., Guilt-Free Guide to What Really Matters...