Word: wong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WONG Hong Kong...
Like so. When the hero (a full-blooded Oriental introduced by Allen as Phil Moscowitz) slugs a thug, he calls him nasty names: "Spartan dog! Roman swine! Spanish fly!" When he meets the villain, an egg-salad addict named Shepherd Wong, he expresses his contempt for a man with "a chicken on his back," and informs him sternly that "two Wongs don't make a White." And the villain, when he dies, gasps hysterically: "Don't let me be embalmed. I want to be stuffed with crabmeat...
Thus far, this untidy thriller proceeds without a serious flaw. Working slowly into the nightmare realism of David Ely's novel, Director John Frankenheimer and Veteran Photographer James Wong Howe manage to give the most improbable doings a look of credible horror. Once Rock appears, though, the spell is shattered, and through no fault of his own. Instead of honestly exploring the ordeal of assuming a second identity, the script subsides for nearly an hour into conventional Hollywood fantasy...
Divorced. By France Nuyen, 27, French-born Eurasian actress (The World of Suzie Wong): Dr. Thomas Caspar Morell, 33, Manhattan psychiatrist who, La Belle France claimed, "knew how to ignore and destroy a woman's ego"; after three years of marriage, one daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...golden spires of the city's 300 Buddhist temples is now saw-toothed with multistory apartment blocks, but there is still a housing shortage in the $250-$500-per-month rental range. Flashing signs proclaim the virtues of Honda cycles, Philips TV sets, Coca-Cola and the Suzie Wong nightclub. For the gourmet, the Two Vikings offers Russian caviar in avocado pears for $5. Any jewelry store on Oriental Avenue has star rubies for the asking-plus $3,250. And instant antique Buddha heads are everywhere available to the unwary tourist, the corrosion of centuries being achieved by burying...