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MICHELLE YEOH AS YU SHU LIEN CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (2000) Dir. Ang Lee

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• In the midst of the Wall Street crash of 1929, Anthony Benson (Tucker), a ruthless stockbroker, is force-selling the unsecured investments of his friends and colleagues on-margin to compensate for the loss of collateral; including those of his affluent and well-connected friend, Harry Gray (Boyd). In his office, Benson accuses Adolf Mohler (Lukas), a shallow gigolo, of forging a check to pay for a trinket that he put on-loan for one of his lovers, Mrs. Paula Banning (Beatty). Fanny Del Roy, (Moorhead) an actress and Mohler's other lover, learns that Benson force-sold her investments as well, after she teased his feelings for her. Fanny insists that she was going to give Benson her pearls as collateral to secure her account, who curiously already has them. Paula arrives, and is also disappointed when she finds she was sold out. Harry Gray indirectly learns of his loss in the stock market through Benson's force-selling, as well; costing him over $250k. Benson orders all of them out of his office, and makes plans to spend the night at his luxurious country estate. The three departing his office overhear this. Benson invites Gray to stay the night with him, apologizing for his stock losses.(Paramount Pictures)

Buster Keaton, sad-faced film comedian, is home again today and promises to be a good boy. His wife, the former Natalie Talmadge, with aid of police, halted Keaton's aerial expedition with his two small sons into Mexico. "I just wanted to see who's boss, and I found out. I didn't know it would stir up a miniature war," moaned Keaton. Mrs. Keaton objects to having the children, Joseph (left) and Robert (right), go up in airplanes.

The Lovers (Les Amants), 1928. René Magritte. Oil on canvas.

I turned 57 today. NOW I feel old.