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...Stanley Kwan film, and hopes to work with Zhang Yimou and the Crouching Tiger princess, Zhang Ziyi. Still, forever-young Leslie is having midlife doubts about his standing in post-'97 Hong Kong. "I've worked bloody hard for 20 years," he says passionately. "I was penniless, dying hard for my groceries. I can now live in a reasonably sized detached house. I'm still very strong in Japan and Korea. But I may be a little passE in Hong Kong. The place is so extravagant, vulgar, expensive. I may be too soft for Hong Kong. I don't always...
Working backward through letters, photos and visits to relatives, Gallagher summons up a universe when a band of utopic Russian emigres arrives in a New York City that no longer exists. Penniless, working for a pittance, they are rich beyond their wildest dreams. She never says how much she actually loves this extended family, except by her affectionate yet dispassionate descriptions of them. There are Bella and Izzy as young communists in love, her father saving her mother from drowning, choosing her over her sister--a revelation to their daughter, who had been worried that her parents weren't romantic...
...sharecropper's daughter," she would tell Harry Sr., and that said everything. Newark needed to be fed, so she catered free meals to charities, and if someone knocked at the back door hungry and penniless, she couldn't say no. To the very end, that was Diane. "We were at home that night, and she had trouble breathing," Harry says, eyes glistening. "She started coughing, and next thing, she was unconscious." Chad performed CPR on his mother, 58, who had no history of serious illness. Harry called 911 and kept pleading with his wife, who was having a heart attack...
...ease. Why does it make us so uncomfortable to talk about our differences in wealth and class status? Could it be that the rich at Harvard finally feel guilty about their advantages and privileges in ways that they have never before been forced to consider? Or that the penniless, who have never before confronted such gratuitous displays of wealth, suddenly have black-tie formals, Final Club punch seasons and Freshman Facebook statistics--including irrelevant home addresses and high school alma maters--thrown in their faces...
...plot begins when Timon, a wealthy Athenian merchant, spreads his seemingly limitless riches among his friends and lavishes penniless Athenian artists with his patronage. He has no ulterior motive: he is simply a kind and generous soul who lives, unconsciously, far beyond his considerable means. His life becomes full of complication once the steward Flavius reveals that Timon's estate is mortgaged to the hilt. As the news leaks out, creditors begin to hound the generous merchant. Timon is forced to appeal to his friends, who, predictably, refuse...