My favorite wolverine has just gone up in my book. Watch this video of Hugh Jackman, 41, singing a country western song in Mandarin for his upcoming movie Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.
The movie is based on a book authored by Lisa See, 55, a Chinese American author. According to her bio, her grandfather was at one point the “100-year-old godfather of Los Angeles’s Chinatown.” I find this really interesting because when I first started graduate journalism school in Chicago, I was assigned to cover the windy city’s Chinatown and spent quite a bit of time in the area. It was a fascinating experience, and I grew to know many people in the community. You can’t imagine the kind of politics that went on in this little neighborhood, especially between the Taiwan and Mainland China groups. The power struggle even led to squabbles over seemingly minor issues like the Chinese New Year parade. Check out a piece I wrote on the parade; it’s one of the first articles I published in Chicago!
(Thanks, Lu!)
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awwww i am impressed! although to be honest, i couldn’t understand the words he was singing. anyways, loved this book and i had no idea they were coming out with a movie!