Sept. 3 Sooner or later, it seems, the urge to be taken seriously afflicts everyone who hangs around Hollywood.
Actors start writing novels, or collecting art.
When the authorities neglect to retrieve Xiu Xiu after six months, she despairs and begins having sex with passing strangers in the hope they can help her. But Xiu Xiu's plight fails to be affecting. The Cultural Revolution, for those who missed Mod. Under the circumstances, sharing a tent in Tibet with a castrated cowboy would have been a pretty soft billet. Surely Xiu Xiu could at least go where she wants to go first, and then sleep with people to get her paperwork straightened out.