 | Amy Tan - Writing from Personal Experience Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/07/10/On_Writing_Amy_Tan_in_Conversation_with_Roger_Rosenblatt Bestselling author Amy Tan discusses the importance of drawing on personal experiences when creating fictional stories and characters, and explains how her own family experiences have influenced her writing. ----- Amy Tan speaks as a part of "Roger Rosenblatt and Friends: On Writing" during the 2008 Chautauqua Institution morning lecture series. Amy Tan is the author of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's Daughter, The Opposite of Fate, and Saving Fish from Drowning. She has also written two children's books, The Moon Lady and The Chinese Siamese Cat. The latter became a children's television series for PBS called "Sagwa." Amy is a member of the literary garage band, The Rock Bottom Remainders, for which she sings the Nancy Sinatra classic, "These Boots Are Made for Walking" to raise money for after-school literacy programs for inner city kids. Tan's rendition of the pop culture classic can be heard on the CD Stranger than Fiction, which benefits the PEN Writers Fund. |
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 | San Francisco's Chinatown During the Civil Rights Era Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=649 Chinese-American author William Poy Lee recounts his participation in a 1968 civil rights march through the heart of San Francisco's Chinatown. ----- William Poy Lee talks about "The Eighth Promise." This is an evocative memoir of a relationship between a mother and son - and the Chinese-American experience - while growing up in the housing projects of San Francisco's Chinatown in the 1960s and 70s. Gloria Steinem says "One of the very few books that completely conveys a life as lived from the inside and makes us as readers feel we are living it too." - Book Passage William Poy Lee graduated with a Bachelors of Architecture, emphasis on urban design and planning from the University of California in Berkeley and completed his juris doctor degree from Hastings College of the Law, University of California. He has been a licensed California attorney since 1979 and has enjoyed a career as an international banking attorney with Bank of America and as an advertising co-principal serving Fortune 100 corporations. "The Eighth Promise" is his first book. |
 | Thanks everyone, from the FORA.tv YouTube Team! FORA.tv's YouTube channel reached an important milestone this weekend, notching over 3000 subscribers and 2,000,000 total video views! In recognition of this event, Nick Ryan and Maureen Olund, FORA.tv's YouTube team, would like to take this opportunity to say thanks to FORA's YouTube fans for your continued support. Thanks everyone! |
 | Aung San Suu Kyi May Be Released CHAN: Now to Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi was due to be released yesterday. Sunday (May 25) was the official end of her five-year house arrest. Suu Kyi, now 62, has spent 12 of the last 18 years in detention, after being elected Prime Minister in 1989. The walls to her house collapsed after cyclone nargis, but Suu Kyi was unhurt. Here's more: STORY: Supporters of Suu Kyi are hopeful. After all, the junta is appealing for almost 12 billion dollars in foreign aid, and releasing Suu Kyi could be an effective good will gesture to win over potential donors. But some believe that even if she is released, she will be forced out of politics and the public eye. [Debbie Strothard, Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma]: "Well, we think technically she may be released so that the regime is able to follow their own laws. But we don't believe that she will actually be free because they will probably detain her under another law. They may be under pressure to allow donors to meet with her so that they can get their hands on $11.7 billion dollars that they need to reconstruct the area." Suu Kyi is enormously popular among Burmese people, who refer to her as 'the lady,' or using an honorific term meaning 'aunt.' And she might have posed a threat to the military regime in the upcoming 2010 elections, but a clause in the junta's new constitution disqualifies her from ever holding office. [Debbie Strothard, Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma]: "So it is a constitution that is making sure Aung San Suu Kyi could never lead the country. So, it is, it took 14 years for them to make this constitution. Now the regime is claiming that once this constitution is adopted that they will have general elections in 2010. And we have to remind them that general elections doesn't mean just electing generals." Still, the Junta may be under pressure to allow donors to at least meet with Suu Kyi. Suu Kyi's family lives abroad, and she had previously been offered freedom if she would leave the country - an offer she rejected. |
 | Dave Barry - Why You Shouldn't Make Fun of North Dakota Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/09/20/Dave_Barry_s_History_of_the_Millennium_So_Far Pulitzer Prize-winning humor columnist Dave Barry identifies what is, in his words, a common "theme" running throughout his career. ----- Dave Barry discusses "Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)." So much has happened in our aughts already, it is imperative that we take a moment to review Dave Barry's year-by-year history of the millennium. He has, with great insight and courage, taken the time to record these turbulent times. For those with "outrage overload," this is a chance to laugh at it all - Politics and Prose Dave Barry is a humor columnist. For 25 years he was a syndicated columnist whose work appeared in more than 500 newspapers in the United States and abroad. In 1988 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. Many people are still trying to figure out how this happened. Dave has also written a total of 30 books, although virtually none of them contain useful information. Two of his books were used as the basis for the CBS TV sitcom "Dave's World," in which Harry Anderson played a much taller version of Dave. Dave plays lead guitar in a literary rock band called the Rock Bottom Remainders, whose other members include Stephen King, Amy Tan, Ridley Pearson and Mitch Albom. They are not musically skilled, but they are extremely loud. Dave has also made many TV appearances, including one on the David Letterman show where he proved that it is possible to set fire to a pair of men's underpants with a Barbie doll. - Dave Barry Official Website |
 | Christmas Story-Fa ra ra A classic scene from the classic movie a Christmas Story |
 | Fat People are Doing It! Old people are doing it! Fat people are doing it! Retarded people are doing it! What is it? Yoga with The Underminer. |
 | Official Jason Mraz - I'm Yours video JASON IS ON TOUR RIGHT NOW! For the complete list of tour Dates, you can head over to Jason's Official Website: http://www.JasonMraz.com |
 | Rant on Stink People Once again I'm not trying to put down Indians, I have nothing against Indians and I'm not racist! I was just saying that this ONE kid who happend to be Indian SMELT LIKE ASS! Music Used: Avril lavigne - When you're gone |
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