In 1902, Liang Qichao, a reformist intellectual of the late Qing dynasty, wrote a futuristic story called “A Chronicle of the Future of New China.” In the unfinished manuscript, he depicts Shanghai hosting the World Fair in 1962 (“Confucius year 2513”), on the fiftieth anniversary of a successful reform movement. By then, he imagines, China has developed a multiparty system
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Giving the gays something to talk about
Apr 9, 2021 |
Fortune Feimster on her pandemic success, going hard on the wine and getting closer to an even bigger break
Fortune Feimster’s mouth has been going and going and going. “I talk a lot right now,” says the Southern comedian who hails from North Carolina, coughing and clearing her throat as we that’s right talk on Zoom.
In addition to a daily radio show and her weekly podcast, Feimster, who rose to fame as The Person You See Everywhere in Bit Parts (including
Chelsea Lately, The Mindy Project and The L Word: Generation Q), has been doing press to talk about the projects she’s a part of that have all come out during the pandemic to satiate our need for existential relief.
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Kristen Wiig, left, and Annie Mumolo in “Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar.” (Cate Cameron/Lionsgate )
There’s a tiny oasis on the west coast of Florida where the men wear Tommy Bahama from head to toe and women of a certain age stroll around poolside in tube tops and full jewelry.
It’s a “middle-age nirvana” where crabs talk and you can eat veal-stuffed manatee while wearing your evening culottes and sip tropical drinks served in a mini-aquarium.
This oasis is called Vista Del Mar, and it’s the wacky invention of Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo, who co-wrote and co-star in “Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar,” a gentle salute to women in their 40s getting their groove back.
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