Michel Gondry directs this mega-budget superhero action film starring Seth Rogen and Cameron Diaz, based on the 1960s television series starring Bruce Lee. Britt Reid (Rogen), son and heir to the biggest newspaper fortune in Los Angeles, is a spoiled playboy who has hitherto led a charmed but directionless existence. But after the death of his father (Tom Wilkinson), Britt joins forces with company employee and martial arts expert Kato (Jay Chou) to fight crime across the city as masked superhero The Green Hornet. Armed with their super-powered automobile The Black Beauty, the pair set out to take down the dastardly Chudnofsky (Christoph Waltz), a kingpin of the criminal underworld who plans to unite the various gangs of the city in an attempt to eliminate The Green Hornet.

Children's animated short following the gang from Pixar's 'Toy Story' film series as they go on a new adventure. Woody (voice of Tom Hanks), Buzz (Tim Allen), Jessie (Joan Cusack), Rex (Wallace Shawn) and Mr. Potato Head (Don Rickles), along with new friends Mr. Pricklepants (Timothy Dalton) and Trixie (Kristen Schaal), find themselves at a mysterious motel overnight after their owner Bonnie (Emily Hahn) and her mother experience car trouble. When Mr. Potato Head goes missing the rest of the toys go on a mission to find him but will they all make it safely back to Bonnie by morning?

Festive-themed animated short from the 'Toy Story' franchise. Shortly after Christmas Bonnie (voice of Emily Hahn) goes to visit her friend Mason (R.C. Cope) for a play date, taking her toys Woody (Tom Hanks), Buzz (Tim Allen), Trixie (Kristen Schaal), Rex (Wallace Shawn) and Angel Kitty (Emma Hudak) with her. When Bonnie sets them aside and goes off to play Mason's new game console the toys discover the boy's dinosaur action figures called The Battlesaurs. However, it becomes clear that The Battlesaurs aren't aware they are toys when Woody and Buzz are forced to do battle against their leader Reptilius Maximus (Kevin McKidd). With her friends in danger it is left to Trixie to save the day...

RAFFLES OF SINGAPORE EMILY HAHJNT ncraoore 1946 GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY COMPANY, INC. With much affection to GEORGE AND KATHARINE SANSOM ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Many thanks are due the Ex plorers Club of New York for their generosity in allowing a free use of their excellent library during the preparation of this text. The same is true of the British Library of Informa tion in New York, with special reference to the kindness of Mrs. Mary Bujke of that organization. The writer also wishes to express her gratitude for the practical help given her by Dr. James Chapin of the American Museum of Natural His tory, Dr. Bartholomew Landheer, of the Netherlands Informa tion Bureau in New York, was kind enough, during the writers absence in England, to check the book in proof for the spelling of the many Dutch names which occur in the text, a tedious job and one which she sincerely appreciates his having done, LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Facing page A Javanese Renggeng 78 A Javanese in Court Dress 79 A Madurese Petty Noble no Elephant Sent by Raffles to the Shogun of Japan in 1813 111 A Hollander and His Javanese Slave 111 Male Informal Attire 334 Eurasian Woman . 334 Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles 335 Map of the Island of Singapore 366 Plan of the Town of Singapore 367 APOLOGIA The volume is too cursory for the specialist and too detailed for others. . . From R. O. Winstedts review of Vlekkes Nusantara in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1944. Cruel words which, though they were not inspired by this book, might well have been. The author of Raffles of Singa pore hereby offers a brief apology for her unorthodox treat ment of an exceedingly conventional subject, knowing that biography and historyused customarily to be written in a special style, dry and pedantic. That, in her opinion, was a fault. She feels that her own generation while growing up was frightened away from history by this stupid tradition, which masked Clios beauty and drowned the music of her voice in dull, pedestrian language. The old fashion was deliberately to steal from the story of men and nations all excitement and even interest. History we understood to be a dreary list of wars and coronations, appended to a catalogue of dates, If in following the new fashion the writer exaggerates, lean ing too far in the other direction, she hopes that her facts at least are fundamentally sound and that she has avoided slop piness in recounting them. Her hope and purpose in producing this book are not to contribute to our knowledge of Raffles for excepting that she had access to Dutch sources which are not commonly known to English readers, she has nothing new to offer. She meant it rather for the ordinary person who like herself, was cheated at school by bad teaching and never learned of historys true deep pleasures until he was able to dispel his early false impres sions. Those readers who are already well grounded in the period are asked to refer to the Bibliography before reading the book. They may then feel that the writer has at any rate tried to avoid being included in the category of those so scathingly condemned by Lord Curzon as either not having read what has been written by better men before, or reading it only in order to plagiarize and reproduce it as their own, . . mis understand, misspell, and misinterpret everywhere as they go. The desire to avoid this pitfall for the hack writer turned historian alsoexplains why the author has refrained from the temptation to paraphrase or modernize the older writers whose works she has consulted. The interest we all feel today in Indonesia as well as the general topic of imperialism appears to her to lead as a matter of course to England and, particularly, to Raffless period. What is happening today in Java has a definite relationship with the past in which he played so large a part...

A fascinating memoir by a free-spirited New Yorker writer, whose wanderlust led her from the Belgian Congo to Shanghai and beyond. Originally published in 1970, under the title Times and Places, this book is a collection of twenty-three of her articles from the New Yorker, published between 1937 and 1970. Well reviewed upon first publication, the book was re-published under the current title in 2000 with a foreword by Sheila McGrath, a longtime colleague of hers at the New Yorker, and an introduction by Ken Cuthbertson, author of Nobody Said Not to Go: The Life, Loves and Adventures of Emily Hahn. One of the pieces in the book starts with the line, "Though I had always wanted to be an opium addict, I can't claim that as a reason why I went to China." Hahn was seized by a wanderlust that led her to explore nearly every corner of the world. She traveled solo to the Belgian Congo at the age of twenty-five. She was the concubine of a Chinese poet in Shanghai in the 1930s-where she did indeed become an opium addict for two years. For many years, she spent part of every year in New York City and part of her time living with her husband, Charles Boxer, in England. Through the course of these twenty-three distinct pieces, Emily Hahn gives us a glimpse of the tremendous range of her interests, the many places in the world she visited, and her extraordinary perception of the things, large and small, that are important in a life.

In the early twentieth century, few women in China were to prove so important to the rise of Chinese nationalism and liberation from tradition as the three extraordinary Soong Sisters: Eling, Chingling and Mayling. As told with wit and verve by Emily Hahn, a remarkable woman in her own right, the biography of the Soong Sisters tells the story of China through both world wars. It also chronicles the changes to Shanghai as they relate to a very eccentric family that had the courage to speak out against the ruling regime. Greatly influencing the history of modern China, they interacted with their government and military to protect the lives of those who could not be heard, and they appealed to the West to support China during the Japanese invasion.

A candid, rollicking literary travelogue from a pioneering New Yorker writer, an intrepid heroine who documented China in the years before World War II. Deemed scandalous at the time of its publication in 1944, Emily Hahn’s now classic memoir of her years in China remains remarkable for her insights into a tumultuous period and her frankness about her personal exploits. A proud feminist and fearless traveler, she set out for China in 1935 and stayed through the early years of the Second Sino-Japanese War, wandering, carousing, living, loving—and writing.   Many of the pieces in China to Me were first published as the work of a roving reporter in the New Yorker. All are shot through with riveting and humanizing detail. During her travels from Nanjing to Shanghai, Chongqing, and Hong Kong, where she lived until the Japanese invasion in 1941, Hahn embarks upon an affair with lauded Chinese poet Shao Xunmei; gets a pet gibbon and names him Mr. Mills; establishes a close bond with the women who would become the subjects of her bestselling book The Soong Sisters; battles an acquired addiction to opium; and has a child with Charles Boxer, a married British intelligence officer.   In this unflinching glimpse of a vanished world, Hahn examines not so much the thorny complications of political blocs and party conflict, but the ordinary—or extraordinary—people caught up in the swells of history. At heart, China to Me is a self-portrait of a fascinating woman ahead of her time.

The New Yorker contributor’s fascinating account of Irish history from legendary kings to occupation, independence, and modern political strife. The author of The Soong Sisters and China to Me turns her observant and discerning eye to the oft‑troubled land of Ireland. In a magisterial combination of historical research and keen personal observation on the scene, Emily Hahn gives us a view of the whole of Ireland and its history, from the legends of the great kings and the heroes of myth to the Saint who converted Ireland to Christianity many centuries ago to modern times. She details the trials and tribulations of a conquered people as they rebel against their exploiters and fight and die for independence, eventually achieving their goal but only at the price of a bitter partition that haunts the country to this day. Hahn’s breadth of vision and acute sense of the telling detail paints the big picture while also pinpointing the small but important moments. Perhaps the subtitle manages to encapsulate it all: Ireland, Its Legends, Its History, Its People from St. Patrick to Bernadette Devlin.

Emily Hahn was a woman ahead of her time, graced with a sense of adventure and a gift for living. Born in St. Louis in 1905, she crashed the all-male precincts of the University of Wisconsin geology department as an undergraduate, traveled alone to the Belgian Congo at age 25, was the concubine of a Chinese poet in Shanghai, bore the child of the head of the British Secret Service before World War II, and finally returned to New York to live and write in Greenwich Village. In this memoir, first published as essays in The New Yorker, Hahn writes vividly and amusingly about the people and places she came to know and love - with an eye for the curious and a heart for the exotic.