JohnGerman

After watching the movie, you could fall in love with that hot Romanian guy. In reality however, those eastern European guys are not the easiest to deal with.

The bright cheeriness isn't all. There is a lot of irony in the bright cheeriness. Yes, much of his work depicts sort of sunny, languid Southern California afternoons. But they scream with existential despair.

I like David Hockney's work. Not necessarily too deep, but bright, cheery, and has charisma. I am fine with him being the most expensive living artist. I certainly prefer him over the cheesy ex-stock broker. That being said, if it's up to me, I'd say Gerhard Richter is the best living painter in the world today.

Who is the red head in the Icon Male picture with a blue star on his right cheek?

The gay character, played by Nico Santos from NBC's Superstore, was somewhat clownish and rather stereotypical, but it has more depth than what you'd expect from some "typical" gay comic sidekicks. An example was how he, when asked for help by the matriarch, broke up the movie financing son and his gold digging wannabe movie star girlfriend. Plus, the character is a fashion designer! He is supposed to be flamboyant...

Plus, the concept of “Red China” has been obsolete for 40 years. You probably have been listening to too much Rush Limbaugh. Dongguan, a medium sized city in Guangdong province, was called the sex capital of China. Its “service industry” has optimized and standardized the entire sexual service practice into minute details (like MacDonald’s), which were then copied by any self-respecting brothels throughout the rest of the country.

There are lots of web based male escort services in China, in almost all the major cities. Service quality varies though. And homosexuality is now legal in China.

I am sorry, but this is simply wrong. The old translation has absolutely nothing to do with Cantonese. As an earlier poster indicated, ”北京" literally means "Northern Capital." The old English "Peking" translation was done via the old Wade-Giles transliteration method. It was much criticized as its translation and pronunciation was not that precise and was quite confusing to modern readers. For example, its Ps sounded more like Bs. After the founding of the People's Republic, this translation was still used by the Chinese government pretty much into the late 60s and 70s. Since then, the Pinyin method was widely adopted, thus "Beijing" is now considered the proper translation. as Pinyin pronunciation much more precisely matches the Chinese pronunciation. In Chinese, the name didn't change. Now, in the case of Peking University, again, the Chinese name "北京大学” didn't really change, but for the sake of legacy and heritage, they decided to stick with the old translation. Same situation for the other half of China's Big Two universities: 清华大学. It's still using the old translation of "Tsinghua University," and not the "Qinghua University" using the Pinyin system.

Bei-Jing, or Peking, means "Northern Capital"
Nan-Jing, or Nanking, means "Southern Capital"
 
Do we have a "Western Capital"? The answer is no, but do we have a real city called "Eastern Capital" in Chinese? The answer is YES! Wanna guess which city that is?

I am sorry, but this is simply wrong. The old translation has absolutely nothing to do with Cantonese. As an earlier poster indicated, ”北京" literally means "Northern Capital." The old English "Peking" translation was done via the old Wade-Giles transliteration method. It was much criticized as its translation and pronunciation was not that precise and was quite confusing to modern readers. For example, its Ps sounded more like Bs. After the founding of the People's Republic, this translation was still used by the Chinese government pretty much into the late 60s and 70s. Since then, the Pinyin method was widely adopted, thus "Beijing" is now considered the proper translation. as Pinyin pronunciation much more precisely matches the Chinese pronunciation. In Chinese, the name didn't change. Now, in the case of Peking University, again, the Chinese name "北京大学” didn't really change, but for the sake of legacy and heritage, they decided to stick with the old translation. Same situation for the other half of China's Big Two universities: 清华大学. It's still using the old translation of "Tsinghua University," and not the "Qinghua University" using the Pinyin system.

There are lots of web based male escort services in China, in almost all the major cities. Service quality varies though. And homosexuality is now legal in China.

Plus, the concept of “Red China” has been obsolete for 40 years. You probably have been listening to too much Rush Limbaugh. Dongguan, a medium sized city in Guangdong province, was called the sex capital of China. Its “service industry” has optimized and standardized the entire sexual service practice into minute details (like MacDonald’s), which were then copied by any self-respecting brothels throughout the rest of the country.

There are lots of web based male escort services in China, in almost all the major cities. Service quality varies though. And homosexuality is now legal in China.

There are lots of web based male escort services in China, in almost all the major cities. Service quality varies though. And homosexuality is now legal in China.

Plus, the concept of “Red China” has been obsolete for 40 years. You probably have been listening to too much Rush Limbaugh. Dongguan, a medium sized city in Guangdong province, was called the sex capital of China. Its “service industry” has optimized and standardized the entire sexual service practice into minute details (like MacDonald’s), which were then copied by any self-respecting brothels throughout the rest of the country.

There are lots of web based male escort services in China, in almost all the major cities. Service quality varies though. And homosexuality is now legal in China.

I am not necessarily talking about your "favorite" porn stars, but just the ones who physically exactly match your taste. I will give out three names whom I like: Scott Tanner, Paul Wagner, and Jeremy Stevens, in that order.

That's better picture. Nice figure. But the face, though undoubtedly handsome, is still not my type. And this picture is just a few degrees from those 90s trendy "cocaine chic" look.

I loved this film. Very well done.

For him to also be an engineer and math lecturer at University College London is just so unfair. You can't be this goodlooking and smart. Something isn't right!

For him to also be an engineer and math lecturer at University College London is just so unfair. You can't be this goodlooking and smart. Something isn't right!

Great novel be interested in seeing how the adaption to movie is. Successful or not ?

Just watched the movie and thoroughly enjoyed it. The scene at Peik Lin's lunch had some of the funniest lines. The dad (Ken Jeong) told his kids to eat their food: Don't you know there are kids who are starving in America? Then he pointed to Rachel (Constance Wu) and asked his kids: Do you see how thin she is? Do you want to be like her? The kids then all shouted: No! The whole theater just burst into uproarious laughters.
 
For a romantic comedy, I also like the fact that the heroine is a well put-together person, not some screwed up hot mess in most of the other romantic comedies...