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This weekend I got to spend some time in Chicago with my friend Tim Hugh. In my past life as a magazine editor, Tim would get Eric and me speaking gigs that went along with the Asian American Showcase film festival that he oversaw. How did we meet? I don't exactly recall but it was...

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A friend tipped me off to this collection of photos Stanley Kubrick shot for Look magazine in the summer of 1949. The accompanying feature was called "Chicago--city of contrasts" so I guess it's fitting that my friend was drawn to the the body-building baby and I'm stuck on the Pump Room, a post-prohibition star magnet described...