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...first in a series of screenings sponsored by the Harvard Vietnamese Association (HVA), the Vietnam war combat cameraman turned documentary filmmaker Tran Van Thuy spoke to an enthusiastic audience of two hundred that packed Fong Auditorium...
...Saigon?only bureaucrats and tourists call it Ho Chi Minh City?is a notoriously freewheeling place where everyone seems to be hustling for a buck. But no one has worked the angles like Truong Van Cam, a.k.a. Nam Cam (Fifth Orange), who reigned for 15 years as the Godfather of Saigon. The 56-year-old former dockworker and soldier ran card games and cockfights, restaurants and brothels, collected protection money and loan sharked. He raked in an estimated $2 million a month?small potatoes for other Asian dons, perhaps, but unheard-of wealth in Vietnam. Cam needed money...
...Amsterdam, they're calling it "Enron on the Zaan," referring to the river that flows near the headquarters of Royal Ahold, the world's largest food retailer. And while that might be an exaggeration, Ahold has certainly scandalized the Netherlands' normally placid business life. The company's CEO, Cees van der Hoeven, and its finance chief, Michael Meurs, abruptly resigned last week following the discovery that a food-service subsidiary in the U.S. had overstated its operating earnings by at least $500 million. Ahold's stock immediately plunged by two-thirds, erasing €5 billion in value, although it picked...
VIETNAMESE FILM SERIES. The Harvard Vietnamese Association, The Harvard Foundation and the Harvard International Relations Council present a screening of three documentaries by award-winning filmmaker Tran Van Thuy. The films are “The Story of Kindness” (1985), “The Sound of the Violin in My Lai” (1998) and “A Story From the Corner of a Park” (1996). Refreshments and discussion with the director to follow. Saturday, March 1 from 6:30 to 10 p.m. Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall...
GERRY. Gerry, the minimalist buddy drama starring Matt Damon, reflects such a drastic shift in director Gus van Sant’s style and tone that many critics have been tempted to label the film “penitence” for van Sant’s unabashedly commercial recent efforts (Good Will Hunting, Finding Forrester). But penitence means internal reflection and self-punishment, not suffering imposed on others. Nevertheless, suffering is the primary experience for viewers of this interminable, plot-free bore. Damon and Casey Affleck star as friends, both nicknamed Gerry, lost and wandering somewhere in Death Valley...