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Feb. 7 - Feb 13, 2003
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‘Chinatown Dreams: The Life and Photographs of George Lee’
By Terry Hong |Special to AsianWeek
Once a week at the Walnut Avenue Café in downtown Santa Cruz, just south of San Francisco along the magnificent Pacific Coast, a group of close friends get together to share breakfast. Seven years ago, they had an idea for a book. Led by local writer/filmmaker/professor Geoffrey Dunn and businessman extraordinaire George Ow, Jr., the result is Chinatown Dreams: The Life and Photographs of George Lee, a visual feast filled with six decades of photographs that capture a long-gone community.
In stark contrast to today’s Santa Cruz — known for its beaches and boardwalk, its sun, surf and sand — the Santa Cruz of the past, from the late 1880s to 1955, was home to four successive Chinatowns in the downtown area. The many generations of the fourth and final Chinatown, which was destroyed when the San Lorenzo River flooded in 1955, are captured in George Lee’s black-and-white images.
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Long before Martin Scorsese’s long-awaited epic, Gangs of New York, began to unspool at 30-plexes near you, the news was not good. Battle stories about Gangs left an inky ominous trail in publications ranging from Esquire to The New York Times, detailing the reshoots, re-edits, the struggles between Scorsese and producer Harvey Weinstein, the huge overruns of the already massive $83 million budget. From early reports, Gangs sounded a lot like Michael Cimino’s pricey boondoggle, Heaven’s Gate — an exorbitant, expensive, excessive, unwatchable mess of a movie about the violent making and unmaking of New York City’s 19th century streetfighting men.
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