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...action begins with two women—the now grown up, “liberated” Victoria (played by Kiran Deol ’05, who was also Betty’s stuffy mother in Act I) and the working class lesbian Lin (Discepolo)—perched on a park bench in what used to be the veranda. Cozzens as Lin’s younger daughter makes for one of the most entertaining and appropriate cast choices, as the six-foot-plus actor has as much absurd physical presence as the rambunctious young girl has energy...
...just one small man in a large crowd of half a million. But as the black-clad protesters streamed into Hong Kong's Victoria Park last week, they would stop for a moment to stare at the slight, unprepossessing individual. Only when he lifted a megaphone, broadcasting a familiar voice whose Gatling-gun delivery epitomizes the staccato clatter of the Cantonese dialect, were they sure. For this was Wong Yuk-man, the phenomenally popular talk-radio host who had used his bully pulpit to incite one of the world's most politically docile populaces into marching for its future...
...voices crowding the radio dial are as varied as they are opinionated. Democracy advocates in Hong Kong exhort listeners to attend the latest Victoria Park rally. Downtrodden Bangkok citizens listen in glee as a crusading radio program exposes?in real time?a corrupt traffic cop as he tries to extort money from a taxi driver (who rings the program as the shakedown is happening). A lonely migrant worker in southern China receives advice on how to find a mate even without the help of a village matchmaker. Best of all, since talk radio flourishes at the intersection of anonymity...
...demonstration this week in Hong Kong by tens of thousands of citizens marking the sixth anniversary of reversion to Chinese rule is aimed at the imminent enactment of the anti-subversion law Article 23. Yet concern over that dubious piece of legislation only partially explains the mass gathering at Victoria Park and subsequent protest march to the city's Central Government Offices. Hong Kong's normally apolitical masses are also deeply frustrated over their sliding economic fortunes and civil liberties since Beijing appointed unpopular Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa to baby-sit Hong Kong...
...Amount paid for six Thai spirit houses by English footballer David Beckham and his wife, Victoria...