Supergirl

Last night, I attended a talk entitled, “Supergirl in China: How Sex in the City Invaded China and its Impact on Film and Visual Arts”. The presentation was given by Dr. Jonathan S. Noble, assistant professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures at University of Notre Dame. Dr. Noble did make passing reference to Sex in the City and spoke for about five minutes on the Supergirl show’s success, but the bulk of the presentation was spent explaining that some big budget movies are successes while others are flops. No real conclusions were made other than the obvious fact that movies are becoming formulaic. As usual, the professor had not practiced his own presentation and had difficulties controlling his PowerPoint slides. The presentation concluded with a performance by Dr. Noble’s wife, Xin Zhang. Ms. Zhang performed two of her originally recorded songs, “What is Love After All” and “Second to None”. Both songs were very good except for the skipping of the CD playing the background tracks, but Ms. Zhang clearly had the stage presence of a professional. The Moon Festival dinner that followed was excellent!