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That’s Jodi Long and the great legend of filmmaking, Christine Choy. The latter, Christine Choy made the Vincent Chin documentary, “Who Killed Vincent Chin?” She also made the documentary about the kid Hattori, who was killed trick or treating. For this festival, they were there for a film called, Long Story Short, which is about Long’s parents who were on the Ed Sullivan show way back in the day. The funniest thing was Choy looks all nice and sweet, but she’s a wild one and talked about porno right off the bat. Hmm. That’s Jojo from Jojo NYC – a TV show. That’s the Matrix, even did an interview in there. The AAIFF runs something like the other film festivals. It’s amazing that you’d think thousands of Asians would just show up, but where are they? Either way, it’s a great effort in NYC. They treat cinema well. Wayne Wang’s Princess of Nebraska was the opener. I think I did over 10 interviews today, and finished at 1am.
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Open 24 hours. Gray's Papaya... It's a trip that it's Filipino dudes who run this place, but late, it's the perfect cheapo snack. The red stuff is onion, and you get 2 dogs and a drink for 3.50. The hot dog isn't bad. It's just a snack and I wouldn't bet it's the best or anything like that. The drink... why not try the papaya juice, there's signs everywhere saying it'll help you digest. Papaya...
Open 24 hours. Gray’s Papaya… It’s a trip that it’s Filipino dudes who run this place, but late, it’s the perfect cheapo snack. The red stuff is onion, and you get 2 dogs and a drink for 3.50. The hot dog isn’t bad. It’s just a snack and I wouldn’t bet it’s the best or anything like that. The drink… why not try the papaya juice, there’s signs everywhere saying it’ll help you digest. Papaya supposedly has some special enzyme that helps you break down your food. That’s what there’s “papaya pills” to aid in digestion. It gets sketchy late at 37 and 8th. There’s a porno video store, a bar, and dudes in doo-rags walking around and they’re not eating hotdogs.
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Tired of reading about Eric and Martin’s Hawaiian shaved ice stories, I decided to get my own while here in Taipei while working on a new movie, Like a Dream, directed by Clara Law. While on a break from promoting John Woo’s Red Cliff, Chang Chen took us to this place that had an interesting list of toppings. Unlike the brightly colored fruit squirts you get from the Hawaiian style, in Taiwan they cover the ice in a brown sugar type syrup followed by your choice of unrecognizable but tasty little tidbits piled into a hole dug out of the middle. The addition of the solid matter filling gives you a nice variety of different textures to balance out the ice. Kinda like a Donutman donut but in ice. Above was my concoction. Under that strawberry jelly is some chewy boba cha type balls. As Borat would say, “Very nice!”Chang Chen had peanuts and a flan like custard in his. A very strange combo indeed but it actually tasted quite good. Antonio opted to have the sweet tofu instead but by the look on his face here, I bet he was thinking, “Damn, I shoulda had the ice.”
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The NY version of the Asian American International Film Festivals is set to start this thursday in New York City. Me being a westcoaster and actually have a feature film in it (yeah, it's forgotten), in 1997 or was it 1998 is long past. Wayne Wang is back in the saddle again with the opening night film, Princess of Nebraska - which somehow reminds me of the U2 song title, Angel of Harlem. I guess...