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version of The Odd Couple, Gentlemen
Prefer Blondes, Bermuda Avenue
Triangle, Annie Get Your Gun and
42nd Street. On TV, she has appeared
in Caroline in the City Frasier, Big
Brother Jake and Daddy Dearest.
She has a new venture
— Radio Bupkis, now playing on
BlogTalkRadio.com at 2 p.m. every
Thursday. Besides developing the
project, she appears as a fictional
character analyzing current events.
"Here comes the Jewish culture

again," McKenzie says. "I learned
the word "bupkis" ("nothing') from
Scott's morn, and there are three
of us talking about the news. I'm
Meany Bupkis."
As much as McKenzie appreci-
ates her personal experiences,
she appreciates what the career of
Ethel Merman has meant to her
way of life.
"I've had some of the most
wonderful experiences because of
Ethel — appearing in the Hall of
Presidents at the Capitol, singing
in a July 4 concert in Washington,
D.C., and participating in a corn-
memoration of the end of World
War II in London," McKenzie says.
Because of the long run of her
show in Detroit, McKenzie has sent
for a guide to Michigan and hopes to
see many places during her free days.
She is especially interested in top-
notch restaurants.
"I'm a person who always has
hope, so the song in the show that
means the most to me is 'Everything's
Coming Up Roses,"' McKenzie says. "I
come out after the performance every
night to meet people. I love doing that
because it turns the experience into a
social event." ❑

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reading Chinese poetry, philosophy
and literature as background, and then
try to write the dialogue, and I would
ask, 'What is that?' And out of frustra-
tion, he would give up and just write
the characters like Jews, and I would
say, `Oh, that's very Chinese' ... in the
way that people process their thoughts
and how they go about their motiva-
tion and relationships."
The Teichberg family's experi-
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also felt familiar to Lee. "We, too, use
the term diaspora," he explained of
Chinese immigrants to the United
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class in mainland China so his parents
were shot and his entire family wiped
out during the Maoist purges."
Lee's father, the sole survivor, relocated
to Taiwan, where the filmmaker was
born in 1954 and, as the first son of a
first son, was expected to carry on the
Lee name and to help make up for the

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entertainer in my culture is regarded as
shameful, so I always had this guilty feel-
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His viewing of the classic Dustin
Hoffman film The Graduate, however,
convinced him that filmmaking was
not necessarily a frivolous aspiration;
and Woodstock gave him a glimpse of
the freedoms that were possible in the
United States.
Elliot Tiber's character in Taking
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his family entanglements and finds a
haven in the environment of the coun-
terculture."But I am still forever alien,
not so much different from the Jewish
experience of feeling that your true
culture is adrift," Lee said. El

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