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Tickets Rise as Willow Road Construction Finally Clears Joanna Schneider dailynorthshore.com
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fter more than two years of construction, all lanes of traffic along Willow Road reopened August 22, with the majority of the project completed from Waukegan Road to the Edens Expressway. Along with wider roads, the area is seeing an increase in speeding violations, police said. The controversial project â which brings a 1.2-mile corridor in Northfield from two lanes to four â represents years of debate weighing the needs of drivers and nearby towns with safety concerns in tiny Northfield. Continued on PG 12
the marriage between his sister and the scholar, was converted tâs difficult to imagine anyone from a classical costume opera better suited than Sophia originated from the Shanghai Wong Boccio to create and area. Mother played Tiger Wang. curate the bi-weekly Asian She not only had to act as a man, Pop-Up Cinema series showcas- wear special costumes and liping an assortment of Asian synch all the songs for the entire language films, both current and movie, but she practiced really contemporary. hard to learn the special theatriThe Hong Kong-born daugh- cal opera acting styles that norter of Wong Tsao-she, the mally require years of trainings. Motion Picture and General I was extremely proud of my Investment Company/Cathy motherâs efforts, and the movie Studioâs award-winning editor, also marked a significant highand Sil-Metropole Organization light of her career. Ltd. actress Yu Wan-fei, Boccio GS: Your father, Wong Tsaogrew up on studio sets. Boccioâs she, was an award-winning film love of and interest in film con- editor. Do you have a favorite tinued into the 1990s, when she film of his and if so, why is that launched the âS ophiaâs movie a favorite? SWB: I was too young to apChoiceâ movie series in Beijing and later became the managing preciate editing techniques. My director of the Chicago Interna- father unfortunately passed away tional Film Festival from 2000 at 57 years old of a heart attack. to 2007. GS: Do you think that, Asian Pop-Up Cinema runs growing up in a film family, it through Dec. 4 at the Wilmette was your destiny to also be inTheatre, 1122 Central Avenue, volved in film in some way? as well as at the AMC River East SWB: Not exactly, but I defi21 in Chicago. nitely grew up watching a lot of Gregg Shapiro: Sophia, your movies. I watched almost every mother, Yu Wan-fei, was an film that my parents were inactress. Do you have a favorite volved in. My father was a fullfilm of hers and if so, why is that time editor of the studio and if the studio produced 30 films a movie a favorite? Sophia Wong Boccio: The year, he edited all of them. My word for word translation of the parents also took us to watch a Chinese title çččćśčŚŞ /Tiger lot of Hollywood movies that Wang Kidnapped a Bride, about were exported and released in a local wealthy familyâs son who Hong Kong. mistakenly kidnapped a young scholar and ended up matching Continued on PG 12 By Gregg Shapiro
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