i was most astonished to find out that none of my singaporean friends and a friend from china at the dinner table tonight knew who vivien leigh was. i wonder if it was a matter of country or that i was really out of date. turned out that the american suitemates i asked didn't know who vivien leigh was either, despite the fact that the glam movie star was from this very country. (jaw dropped.) fine. i'm out of date then. there is really a generation gap between me and my peers from other countries. friends please prove me wrong! hands up if you know who vivien leigh is! also shirley temple. man. i grew up watching her cute little films.
or is it just china that is out of date on such things? pple, please answer the following questions:
what books did you grow up reading?
what films do you remember watching when you were a child?
fyi this is vivien leigh.
this is shirley temple
and yes that's a real kid up there.
and for fm's information, this is audrey hepburn
4 comments:
i dunno who vivien leigh is. i think i've heard of shirley temple, but dont remember watching her films. ive seen audrey hepburn.
i read enid blyton books when i was a kid. also, read trash like sweet valley, though at that time i was really hooked to it. my pri school banned us from reading the series. films shows... i didn't watch much when i was young.
zj
hey zj thx :)
well.. i've heard of vivien leigh, i think, but i haven't seen any of her movies. i have seen shirley temple in some movie. hmm i also watched the disney staples like the lion king, cinderella, beauty and the beast, bambi, etc. tv shows included mr. roger's neighborhood, sesame street... (long time ago, haha)
books included: a lot.. let's see what i can remember... anne of the green gables, berenstein bears, bks about ramona quimby, a lot of the boxcar children, some classics, little women, white fang, the call of the wild, the swiss family robinson, the adventures of tom sawyer, a wrinkle in time, where the red fern grows, my side of the mountain, the chronicles of narnia, roald dahl, charlotte's web...
what?!! people don't know vivien leigh??! (i always thought it was vivian :P), but heck, i believe if you say feiwenli most well-educated moviegoing chinese would know kinda instantly? but i can kinda understand the preposterity of this...i knew people who didn't know audrey hepburn or grace kelly..what a big shame. but then again, how many big chinese stars of the 1930s do WE know? even merely their names? probably not many either...what a bigger shame.
(haven't been around for a while, hi there, long time no see :$)
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