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Excerpts
From Chapter Three
Disappointments
Are Great!
(Follow
The Money, the
Internet)
- "China,
The Art of Playing Two
Roles"
By Troy
Cory-Stubblefield /
Josie
Cory
The
juxtaposition of the more
traditional China with the newly
emerging, more
capitalistic China, is most
evident in the actors, singers
and dancers playing, Troy,
Chancy, Amber, GoodTime, and the
Brooke Sisters. Out of each root
of the disappointment they all
blossom together into a "point of
view" television documentary,
blending the why's, how's and
when's China transformed its many
disappointments -- to the biggest
winner of the 20th Century.
---- In the "Open Door
Policy" episode - Chiang Kai-shek
is Chancy's first government head
to fall from grace. With Chancy's
finger on the icon, Chiang
Kai-shek's fate is shown how he
once lived in a large traditional
house filled with rich mementos
of a once gracious life on
mainland China, that was
substituted for a richer life in
Taiwan, the controversial Island
off the coast of China.
---- With the click of
another Chancy icon, Mao Tse-tung
shares his memories with viewers
as a hero in China by his
elimination of western
corruption, and Chiang Kai-shek's
Kuomintang forces. The collection
of black and white documentary
films were retrieved, video
copied by Shanghai and Beijing
government officials for Troy's
use. Troy says, the archives were
filmed throughout China's
turmoils, dating back to the
early
20s.
----While at first
intimidating to a visitor
studying the bright colored
portrait of Mao Tse-tung hanging
in Tiananmen Square, Mao reveals
himself to be a good-hearted head
of state, where politicians and
dynasties appear to have nine
lives. Possessed more of the
common man intellect and passion
for his people than of monetary
ambition, Mao Tse-tung was
content with who he was.
---- There seemed no
regret in the simple vocation of
giving Marxist lessons for the
pleasure of the lesson itself. He
was a warrior in a peculiar sort
of phenomenon taking place during
World War II, that not only
ridded itself of the Japanese
invasion, but most of its ancient
religions, political strifes and
cultural traditions -- all at the
same
time.
----The critics of Mao
Tse-tung's success, accentuate
the negative when explaining
their disappointment. They tell
the world they should look at
China to learn how a failed
Communist State can reform
without collapsing. Today, Mao is
a symbol of Communist China, and
the successful pacificator that
won Hong Kong back without
costing one
battle.
----Mao affixed himself to
the realism that a real communist
lived in Russia, not China. Mao,
like his wife, Jiang Qing, the
leaders of China's Cultural
Revolution, which some call the
brutal engineers of soul and
society, truly understood the
soul of rural China and played
the Russian tune they needed to
win by, but no one has ever been
able to explain it," says
Troy.
----Rob decided that like
Amber, Chancy should never be
seen, except for his finger on
the mouse, and that Troy should
step in front of the camera to
play both himself (the singer),
and the GoodTime Charley
character in the television
series.
----Though Troy
acknowledges he doesn't really
like playing the Bogart character
for the reasons, "Charley lives
by his own rules and uses jargon
I have never used, and people
might think that's me in real
life," says Troy.
---- GoodTime, the better
side of Charley, is the type of
guy who'll work for the side that
gives him the most $$ with
attitude, "win if you can, lose
if you must, but always cheat".
In a sense, GoodTime Charley
personifies the modern day
arrogant "Wall Street Stock
Broker" who wears a brown rain
coat, referring to the women he's
suckered in as "broads". >(See
Index.) Martha Stewart
Article.
----GoodTime says, "the
name within itself is deceiving."
If GoodTime was a female, she'd
use a mixture of deceptive
shenanigans, only a woman could
use to play out her mission.
GoodTime Charley's counterpoise
is named, "Mama Sunshine".
>(See Index.) "Today's Puzzle"
- Katrina, Can you Mix Wine,
Woman and Song with the FBI?;
>(See Index.) Marine, Lover
Attempts to Kill Husband.
---- Josie says, "if he's
not careful, the "GoodTime"
character could cost Troy at the
expense of his singing and
performing talents. Producing a
show that includes yourself
playing dual roles, a double
agent, a great singer plus being
the producer and writer, is a
very risky, dangerous business."
Like so many people today,
GoodTime is driven by money and
the need to increase his
intellectual success, his wealth,
his status and he'll do anything
to maintain his own
position.
----Yet, GoodTime has a
good side. When he's knowingly
working for both ends of the
stick at the same time, his links
to wine, woman, song, government,
and corporate spies and their
double agents are all OK,
according to the rules of the
game. Like GoodTime says,
"disappointment hides her ugly
puss in music, politics,
literature, Santa Claus, wedding
bells, nursery rhymes and
tombstones." >(See Book
Index.) Mexican
Case.
----"Early on", says
Josie, "before I had the role of
Amber, Rob asked me to read the
title on my TVI business card. I
never thought the words
"Journalist-Publisher-Editor"
were particularly heinous but,
judging from Rob's revolted
expression, the card may as well
read
"plagiarist-kleptomaniac-serial
killer."
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