Michael Chow Photo: HBOAmong his many talents, the celebrity restaurateur Michael Chow , the subject of “AKA Mr. Chow,” has the seemingly savant-ish ability to recall the first shot of any movie he’s seen.
“Why are first scenes so important?” asks director Nick Hooker .
“Is your birth important?” asks Mr. Chow.
AKA Mr. Chow Sunday, 9 p.m., HBOA film-critic colleague once observed, or conceded, that few movies get any better after the first five minutes.
Over the great operatic journey that is Mr. Chow’s life, can anything top the overture performed by this supremely self-confident, mildly abrasive, quasi-pugnacious but likable impresario-artist-actor and feeder of the elite?
Persons:
Michael Chow, Chow, ”, “ Lawrence, Nick Hooker, “, Hooker, Jean Tsien, Chow —
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HBO
Locations:
Northwest, Arabia