R.I.P. Edward Yang
Taiwanese Director Yang Dies at 59
I’ll have to get on the stick and watch the rest of YI YI, which I started watching like four years ago, really liked, but never finished.
The one thing I’ll always remember about Edward Yang is when we saw one of his films in a class I took, this one undergrad guy liked it so much he vowed in front of us all to go to Taiwan to become Yang’s disciple. A few years later I turned on the Taiwanese game show WO CAI, WO CAI, WO CAI CAI CAI (I GUESS, I GUESS, I GUESS GUESS GUESS), and who did I see as a contestant, but that guy! I’m pretty sure it was him because I always remembered him due to his remarkable resemblance to Adam Sandler.