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...local talent is a little less lustrous, but that actually proves the genius behind the festival. Co-founders Jane Camens and Nury Vittachi, both literary-minded journalists, envisioned cosmopolitan Hong Kong as the perfect center in which to showcase "great writing with Asian roots," a category that can include just about anything with a gloss of soy sauce: expats writing Asia-based historical fiction, hyphenated Asians getting back to their roots, nonfiction writers discovering the region. Not to mention the proliferating literary output from the other side of the border with mainland China. Asian books are hot in the literary...
...format of this year’s competition mirrored that of a traditional beauty pageant, with judged categories including beachwear, talent and a short interview...
...talent competition, Smith—clad in a sparkling black gown—sang “I Whistle a Happy Tune” from the Academy-Award winning musical The King and I, amusing the audience with a short tap dance and her overblown attempts to whistle...
...started his talent performance by playing a banjo, but broke a string early on and instead rapped about Tennessee...
Craig, or “Billy Dee Adams,” wrapped himself in cellophane plastic for the talent competition—for which the contestants were supposed to don formal attire—and performed an “oral hygiene” dance which left the entire room smelling of mouthwash...