Editor’s Note: Danny Bloom, our Taiwan bureau chief, constantly monitors the internet looking for Jewish-angled stories. It takes him around the virtual world.
Coco Lee-Bruce Rockowitz tie the knot
HONG KONG — The beautiful and talented 30-something Coco Lee (李玟) tied the knot the other day in Hong Kong with Canadian billionaire boyfriend Bruce Rockowitz [ אֶלִיעַנָה ] in a posh wedding under a
Hebrew wedding canopy in fragrant China.
Well, not really China, but the ex-British colony once called The Fragrant Harbor (“Hong Kong” in Chinese) that is now a sub-autonomous region of Communist China, which means that freedom and democracy there are now at risk.
Still, it was a very capitalist wedding, and what seemed like half the celebrities of Hollywood were there, even though nobody has ever heard of Coco Lee outside of Taiwan or Hong Kong. She can sing though, and dance, too, and it’s a shame she has never been able to break through the Yellow Ceiling that prevents Asian singers from breaking into the American pop music mainstream.
Truth be told, Coco can sing as well as Mariah Carey and she’s even more beautiful. But for some reason, the North American music industry does not admit singers from Taiwan or Japan or Hong Kong (or Communist China) into its ranks. It’s not racism per se, but it’s racism nonetheless.
Asia has some of the best singers in the world performing live to huge audiences there, but crossover to North America? No way, Jose. For some odd reason, Asian faces and Asian accents are not accepted in the North American music business and that’s a shame. You’re missing some great stuff!
Meanwhile, back to the wedding of the century. Oprah Winfrey and Jennifer Lopez were there, and so was a Very Wang wedding gown and some jewels “sponsored” by Piaget.
According to May Daily in Beijing, “the two-day celebrations started on Thursday evening when the couple held a Jewish ceremony at the Sky 100 Observation Deck” and ended the next day with Bruno Mars, Alicia Keys and Ne-Yo performing at the sweet 36/52 wedding party.
Rockowitz, yes, a young-looking baby-faced 52 mensch, has been president of the Hong Kong-based Li & Fung Group for the past eight years, and he and Coco look set to enjoy their sunset years jetsetting
around the world in high fashion.
Will she continue singing? You betcha! She’s good a voice that does not quit, and some day a Grammy might come her way. She deserves one!
As for Bruce, he’s in high heaven and set for life. Mazel tov to the happy couple!
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Maya secrets subject of new documentary
HOLLYWOOD — Producer Raul Julia-Levy, son of actor Raul Julia, and the director of a new documentary titled “Revelations of the Mayans 2012 and Beyond,” has a secret. A big secret. A secret so big that the very fate of the world hinges on what he knows and who told him. The information comes directly from the archives of the government of Mexico — Land of the Maya — and the data reveal Maya beliefs in future catastrophes that Julia-Levy has characterized as “shocking.”
Of course, this is all hype designed to sell a movie and attract distributors and audiences and funding, and as everyone knows, the world is not about to end in 2012, as the Maya calendar is said to predict. Maybe 2013, but not 2012. The end of one period in the ancient Maya calendar in December
2012 has attracted conspiracy theorists and end of the worlds around the globe. But not this reporter. I know it’s a hoax, a myth, an urban legend.
The Mayas did not know squat about life in the 21st Century. Sorry New Age visionaries and apocalypse followers, it just isn’t true.
However, don’t ask Julia-Levy to dish the dirt. It’s top secret and what he has seen so far is “unbelievable” and he now has a chance to film in never-before-seen locations around Mexico, thanks to the deal he struck with the Mexican authorities.
“The Mayas used to construct one pyramid over another,” tourism minister for the Mexican state of Campeche Luis Augusto Garcia Rosado recently told The Wrap, a Hollywood film site edited by Sharon Waxman and her team. “In the site at Calakmul, workers for INAH [the National Institute of Anthropology and History] have discovered rooms inside the pyramid that have never been seen or explored before. And we’re letting [Raul-Levy’s] documentary film there, to see what has been discovered inside the pyramid.”
Julia-Levy was told about the secret Mayan data by former Mexican President Vicente Fox — a family friend — and he told the Wrap that it took four years of phone calls to finally get approval from current Mexican president Felipe Calderon.
“This is very important for humanity, not just for Mexico,” Julia-Levy dished to the Wrap. “This information has been protected for 80 years, and now it’s important for people to understand the series of events that are coming, and the consequences for all of us.”
There’s one hitch to all this, though. The movie must be released before the end of the Maya calendar, which is Dec. 21, 2012.
Why that date? The ancient Maya sort of maybe kind of perhaps said that the end of a 5,126-year cycle will end on that date, and another 5,126-year cycle will start again the next day. For some reason, the ancient Hebrews, whose calendar goes back a long time as well, have not yet been implicated in this conspiracy theory.
But stay tuned. There’s still time.
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Anti-Cancer Cocktail book set for publication
NEW YORK — Rudy Shur is the kind of publisher that students study about in book industry courses at summer school at Harvard and Princeton. He not only knows the book business from A to Z, but he’s also been around the block a few times and he knows how to find a book and publish it very solidly until it finds its audience.
A case in point is Shur’s newest release, from Square One Publishers in New York, titled Beyond the Magic Bullet: The Anti-Cancer Cocktail. It an important new book by Dr Raymond Chang and it’s set
for a January 2012 release date with major media attention next year.
But you can read about it here first.
According to inside sources, the book ”provides a new way of treating cancer without killing the patient.”
Here’s the book’s ”back story”.
In December 2007, a woman in New York was diagnosed with Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer (ATC), an aggressive, rare, and deadly form of thyroid cancer. It has a one to two percent survival rate, on average, and you are dead within three weeks to three months, according to sources.
Almost every alternative and conventional medical source bar none told the woman’s family that there was very little that they could tell the family regarding treatments that would raise the woman’s odds of
survival. All she could opt for is an operation to remove it and follow-up radiation (and once a week chemo) treatments. She decided, along with her husband’s support, to go for it.
However, on the very same day that the woman went into surgery, the following article appeared in the The Wall Street Journal -http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119759308934528357.html
Long story short: the woman and her husband found a doctor who could work with them to do it, it being the info contained in the WSJ story above, and his name is Dr. Raymond Chang, and they went for it. The ATC came back twice and the woman was operated on twice to remove it.
”Normally, at this point, the metastasized ATC should have killed my wife”, Shur told this reporter. ”It didn’t, and she has been cancer-free for the last three years.”
This book explains the principles behind the treatment as well as what a patient can take to beat the cancer. It’s that important a book.
More amazing back story: just by a pure coincidence, the professional writer of this pioneering book (working with the ideas and principles and information offered Dr Chang and hand in hand with the doctor) suggested a special person to write the foreword to the 288-page tome, and it was Ben Williams, who started the approach named in the WSJ article that Shur had read in the WSJ and Rudy didn’t realize it until he contacted Mr Williams to thank him for the foreword.
“And that was when I learned that Ben Williams was the same guy mentioned in the WSJ article,” Shur, the intrepid and enterprising publisher on Long Island, said.
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Bloom is Taiwan bureau chief, and web surfer in chief as well, for San Diego Jewish World. He may be contacted at dan.bloom@sdjewishworld.com