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George, Teresa and staff

from 2 pm - 5:30 pm daily
seniors only

20% off
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Rachel DeWoskin: "The
Jews value education and
family, just like the
Chinese."

in Beijing, a series with 600 million
viewers.
DeWoskin's character, Jiexi, breaks
up a Chinese man's marriage to his
loyal wife and ends up moving with
him to the United States. In the
book, DeWoskin describes her dis-
comfort at being filmed scantily
dressed and passionately embracing
her Chinese boyfriend. She was
dumbfounded to discover that she
had, overnight, become a celebrity.
Girls followed her into stores and
bought whatever cosmetics she
bought. People showed up, uninvited,
at her apartment and said they want-
ed to be her friend. She was asked
repeatedly for her autograph, which

ALICE BURDICK SCHWEIGER

Special to the Jewish News

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lene Kristin, who plays the crass
yet lovable Roxanne Balsom on
the ABC soap One Life to Live,
says she not only identifies with her
character, but of all the roles she has
played, this one strikes home the
most.
"We have the same attitude toward
life," says Kristin, who has been on the
show since 2001. "I don't have alco-
holic or gambling tendencies like
Roxy, but we both like to have a good
time."
Since she has been acting from the
time she was a teenager, Kristin has
had a lot of roles to compare to Roxy.
Born and raised in New York, the
actress attended professional children's
school and spent a year at Finch

she gave with clumsy calligraphy.
She took heat from the Western
press, which said she had played into
Chinese stereotypes about loose
American women. But DeWoskin,
while acknowledging that her charac-
ter was stereotyped, argues that the
overall message of the show is com-
plex.
Although Jiexi did break up a mar-
riage, she is shown to be genuinely in
love with her new Chinese husband,
and their move to America is sympa-
thetically portrayed. Says DeWoskin,
"The message was that the engage-
ment [of China] with the West is
inevitable and long-term, and that
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But early on in her career, the actress
had to change her surname — to
Kristin from Schatz — to nab a non-
union movie role. "My agent helped
me pick Kristin," she says. "I liked
my own Jewish name, but since I
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