-
Growing Musicals In Hong Kong Never Shrink Back To Its Old Dimensions——The 9 Kinds Of Musicals in Hong Kong
19-10-20 My art memories are often evening moments and weekend encounters with musicals. Happiness radiated like fragrance when I saw friends between backstage and stage. Together, they formed the scrapbook of my life. When I was thirty years of age and uncritical, I loved western musicals and overrated their standards as being ‘godishly’ high. After…
-
How Do You Deliver A Good Vocabulary With A Punch? At Home? At Work? With Friends? Good Advice From English Tang
18-09-20 “As I appear on the stage and start to pour my effective vocabulary and punches into the audience, the good show begins,” said English Tang (鄧英敏), one of the most celebrated masters of ceremonies in Hong Kong. He continued, “Speaking well requires skill and an eye for detail. It is composed of 4 elements:…
-
Function Singer Ricky Wong—Message For The Depressed Ones In Hong Kong: Work Is Never Too Much Of A Good Thing!
11-09-20 We call the leading actor and actress in a film or TV drama ‘peonies’ and supporting ones ‘green leaves’ in Hong Kong. Peonies are well-rewarded but green leaves are underpaid. To hearten the supporting actors to their task, we usually cite a Chinese idiom to them ‘Peonies can never be beautiful without the green…
-
i’m livin’ it— A Film Serious About McRefugees Of Hong Kong Or Simply Another Soap Opera?
25-9-20 There are residents called ‘McRefugees’ who sleep or even live in 24-hour McDonald’s restaurants in Hong Kong. Some may be homeless. Others face family estrangements. A few are losers. Individuals get mental issues. One answered the reporter like this, “There is no air conditioning in my tiny bunk bed. Here, I can use free…
-
The Swot Analysis Of Hong Kong Performing Arts Going Across & Abroad
09-08-20 Hong Kong is small: we have 1,106 sq. km of land and there are more mountains than surrounding flat lands. The population is about 7.5 million. The Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office reported that there are over 1,000 performing art groups in Hong Kong, staging as many as 8,000 performing art shows every year and…
-
Fung Wing: Outdoor Movie? Cinematic Film? Online Movie? What’s Next To Transform Hong Kong’s Movie World?
29-06-20 It was strange. Sorrow started when online films were invading cinematic ones. When coronavirus was affecting Hong Kong, all cinemas were to close. Sorrow ends now as we are relieved to see online platforms still show the latest films. We said, “Thank God! Film was saved!” The death of Chinese abacus(算盤) is a result…
-
Hey! Grooving On The Dance Floor In Hong Kong In The 1960s & 1980s
08-06-20 Dance is a box of Vosges Haut-Chocolat that brings people together with 7 joys: music, body movement, drama, artistic beauty, creativity, passion and costume ideas. The side effect of dance, particularly intimate form, is love which may arrive at a sweet marriage of a pair of partners. People may dance for money, like stage…
-
6.6.3. Interview by THE DESK 2020
This online program can also be found at the following sites:
-
“IT IS A BIG MISTAKE TO THINK OF A MARKET WITHOUT A NEW MARKET!” ——HONG KONG TV PATRIARCH NG YU COMPARES ART AND ENTERTAINMENT MARKETS
12-04-20 One market leads to another. Doors are all locked when we cannot keep our own market. Instagrammer Caleb Hsu made this point, “When aesthetic purpose precedes exposure and sales considerations, art wins over entertainment. It starts with artistic intention and results in audience response. Entertainment is more about artifice, whereas art has a strong…
-
OUR WALKING MEDIA DICTIONARY PETER LAM YUK WAH—IS TV IN HONG KONG DYING?
05-11-19 Bill Taylor, an international researcher, said, “The true mark of a leader is the willingness to stick with a bold course of action, an unconventional business strategy, a unique product development roadmap and a controversial marketing campaign—even as the rest of the world wonders why you are not marching in step with the status…