tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8133147170181934597.post3590572550743131481..comments2023-10-31T06:01:21.781-04:00Comments on love,elizabeth: Requiem for a cool girlElizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11889294120616809157noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8133147170181934597.post-24904471299629516352018-10-30T12:46:29.602-04:002018-10-30T12:46:29.602-04:00Wow, it is so intriguing.they have different fathe...Wow, it is so intriguing.they have different fathers that explains why they do not resemble each other. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00779520584995136313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8133147170181934597.post-47703816688905661752016-12-21T22:19:55.610-05:002016-12-21T22:19:55.610-05:00http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/glamour-...http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/glamour-girl-anya-phillips-brought-beauty-new-york-s-1970s-n695466That One Ladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05016120698962594225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8133147170181934597.post-88443795607368391362015-03-22T00:49:38.821-04:002015-03-22T00:49:38.821-04:00Elizabeth
I was at TAS with you. I knew her well....Elizabeth <br />I was at TAS with you. I knew her well. I'm in Pittsburgh a lot. I'd like to talk about her.<br />athena56@me.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8133147170181934597.post-8541563897308549962012-06-30T05:06:15.791-04:002012-06-30T05:06:15.791-04:00Thanks for this story on Anya, Elizabeth. I also ...Thanks for this story on Anya, Elizabeth. I also knew her in the year before she left Taiwan.Edward Ironshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10261051091874216635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8133147170181934597.post-65060250867376283032012-05-20T21:02:22.921-04:002012-05-20T21:02:22.921-04:00Hello!
I often come and appreciate reading you, an...Hello!<br />I often come and appreciate reading you, and ofteb moved. Here I am full of hope to see Bart in a way has been saved by music. What did not work for his sister worked for him.yvettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02298209092809775284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8133147170181934597.post-33115304190811559752012-01-29T05:27:01.075-05:002012-01-29T05:27:01.075-05:00And everybody in China thought Anya's little b...And everybody in China thought Anya's little brother has a perfect family.<br /><br />Every family has its untold stories behind its doors.<br /><br />A very sad story. Well written.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8133147170181934597.post-75346717234102819812009-08-14T13:50:28.717-04:002009-08-14T13:50:28.717-04:00Annonymous - He was a nice kid, and it doesn'...Annonymous - He was a nice kid, and it doesn't surprise me at all that he's a nice adult. I did know that they had different fathers, but I don't know anything about her bio dad. Her mother was married to Bart's father by the time I knew her.<br /><br />Jeff - Thanks. I do have the advantage of being lucky enough to grow up into a true adult who has learned to see the suffering beneath the cruelties of others. Maybe she would have gotten there too someday.... (BTW, "Ice-water cool" is a great phrase!)Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11889294120616809157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8133147170181934597.post-86668401960684102952009-08-13T02:10:39.473-04:002009-08-13T02:10:39.473-04:00Just seeing this piece for the first time and stru...Just seeing this piece for the first time and struck by the juxtaposition of ice water cool and your loving kindness. Beautifully done.Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05804173880520607666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8133147170181934597.post-40250232655199887682009-07-20T11:36:22.775-04:002009-07-20T11:36:22.775-04:00yes, his beautiful blue eyes have attracted millio...yes, his beautiful blue eyes have attracted millions of Chinese girls ever since 1980. People describes him as " The man who has female fans from baby to 80-year-old". He is still quiet and sweet at age 50 this year. But his voice, look and gentleman-like manner has attracted millions. Do you know Anya and Bart have different fathers? Did Anya ever mention to you what happened to her biological father?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8133147170181934597.post-82057938841329498382009-07-17T13:07:24.382-04:002009-07-17T13:07:24.382-04:00Hua - Thanks so much for the information! I had n...Hua - Thanks so much for the information! I had no idea that quiet little Bart turned into such a dazzling outgoing grown up! He used to be a sweet quiet little boy, but even back then I remember noticing his beautiful eyes.Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11889294120616809157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8133147170181934597.post-50917880832396514732009-07-15T13:07:19.389-04:002009-07-15T13:07:19.389-04:00Elizabeth, thank you very much for telling the sto...Elizabeth, thank you very much for telling the story about Anya. Just to add a follow-up to her story, Anya's baby brother, Bart, was later known as Kris Phillips, or Fei xiang. After Anya's death, Kris went on and became a huge star in Taiwan and mainland China. He also ventured into musical scene and was in the original cast of "Miss Saigon" in NYC (1991). Here is a link to an old NY Times article about him:<br /><br />"A 6-Foot-3, Blue-Eyed Taiwanese-American Is China's Top Rocker"<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/24/arts/a-6-foot-3-blue-eyed-taiwanese-american-is-china-s-top-rocker.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2<br /><br />Kris dedicated one of his albums to Anya. In a way, Anya's legacy lives on through her brother's music career.Huahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10448550422341357827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8133147170181934597.post-70913010495982086002009-06-22T12:39:13.832-04:002009-06-22T12:39:13.832-04:00Granny- the more I'm learning about her, the s...Granny- the more I'm learning about her, the sadder it gets. <br /><br />Kathleen - Thanks. But at that age it seemed so important to most of us. She never really got to grow out of that painful needy phase.<br /><br />Claire - The punks that I knew in SF were more into the visual art aspect of it, but they were pretty clean too. Though I would only have known the clean ones, being such a good girl myself. Nihilism and violence have never spoken much to me. So boring (me, I meant, but they are too, really).<br /><br />Jason - Means a lot coming from you! I thought of you yesterday. I was at a local amusement park and there were so many people like the ones you always describe - aging leathery bleached blonds with acid washed jeans .... You would have had a descriptive field day.<br /><br />Peenee - That is SO perfect!!!!!!!! That's all I can see now when I look at the pic. Babies, playing dress up, waiting for the mom to come take them home to the suburbs.<br /><br />1000 shades - Thanks dear. Yes, she was basically needy, self-absorbed, and desperate for approval. But that's pretty much high school, isn't it? I've found out more about her since posting this. One of her friends in NYC - who also went to my high school (and was married to Lou Reed for a while!) - is married now, has kids, and has cut herself off from that past....Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11889294120616809157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8133147170181934597.post-90968107641319622802009-06-22T07:43:19.770-04:002009-06-22T07:43:19.770-04:00Jeez, who'd want to be cool, eh?
Another beaut...Jeez, who'd want to be cool, eh?<br />Another beautifully written and fascinating entry, Elizabeth! She sounds like a character, albeit a somewhat frustrated and frustrating one..<br />It would be interesting to know what would have happened to her if she'd grown old and sedentary like the rest of us..a thousand shades of twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01237118730058903151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8133147170181934597.post-65931176733935425532009-06-19T11:26:50.359-04:002009-06-19T11:26:50.359-04:00What I think is so striking is the photo. These t...What I think is so striking is the photo. These tough little, smack-shootin', downtowners all look so sweet and innocent. Like they're waiting for somebody's mom to come pick them up after the movie. They're just babies.mrpeeneehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05206554819014030083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8133147170181934597.post-14732835249526874702009-06-19T01:59:17.265-04:002009-06-19T01:59:17.265-04:00so beautifully written.so beautifully written.jasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11116663308431251286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8133147170181934597.post-11675371605949407812009-06-18T23:44:08.032-04:002009-06-18T23:44:08.032-04:00Such a touching and moving piece, my dear. A few y...Such a touching and moving piece, my dear. A few years ago I started doing some research into spoken word stuff around that time, and was surprised to hear that it wasn't all about the music and that S.F. had a very big spoken word movement. But then I bet you knew that being the poetry person. Lydia Lunch and Exene were quite big, but then the L.A. punk scene was a lot different than that New York punk scene More poetry and it seems less drugs. Although, naturally, people were using but it didn't seem as fatal and the N.Y. scene.Claire M. Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01714407719530073304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8133147170181934597.post-37801626694705973502009-06-18T00:46:17.611-04:002009-06-18T00:46:17.611-04:00Oh yes, the soft, vulnerable underbelly of cool. H...Oh yes, the soft, vulnerable underbelly of cool. How perfectly you captured the tragedy, juxtaposed against your own life, which as it turns out, is something so much fuller than mere cool.<br /><br />Thank you a story well told and not to be forgotten.Kathleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18372015226222285350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8133147170181934597.post-62617484843321587612009-06-18T00:11:14.324-04:002009-06-18T00:11:14.324-04:00what a sad sad story...
you really tell a moving s...what a sad sad story...<br />you really tell a moving story..yellowdoggrannyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14906624317290990109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8133147170181934597.post-18933528948198036752009-06-17T23:58:28.701-04:002009-06-17T23:58:28.701-04:00Thanks all!
jhnhth - Thanks for reading and comme...Thanks all!<br /><br />jhnhth - Thanks for reading and commenting. I hope it's clear that I don't hold any animus toward her. High school is such a difficult time, and especially for people like her whose ambitions are outside the mainstream. Having been judged plenty myself, I don't tend to judge others, which might be why she sought me out in the first place.<br /><br />And I really do hope she found joy and pride in what she was doing, that world she was helping to build. It seems like most of them knew they were onto something big, and I hope, before she died, she did too.<br /><br />She had a little brother. I remember him quite vividly. His name, I think, was Bart. Cute, quiet kid with freckles. She never sat with him and mostly didn't acknowledge him, except to bark an occasional order at him. Even then the dominatrix!<br /><br />I've asked some other people we went to high school with to add anything they remember. We'll see what comes of that.Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11889294120616809157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8133147170181934597.post-61272596437665876692009-06-17T20:26:07.720-04:002009-06-17T20:26:07.720-04:00Incredible story. Thank you so much for sharing yo...Incredible story. Thank you so much for sharing your memories of Anya. She made a significant impact on the music, film and fashion of her day - but she's largely been relegated to the footnotes of history. It's good to hear a first-person account - warts and all - of a part of Anya's life before NY. Thanks for posting.-https://www.blogger.com/profile/04104365692112080505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8133147170181934597.post-42783466275488598152009-06-17T13:05:07.790-04:002009-06-17T13:05:07.790-04:00Amazing story how strange to find her picture in a...Amazing story how strange to find her picture in a bookstore.sagewebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06818567803401688931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8133147170181934597.post-84265239266064744002009-06-17T10:30:35.363-04:002009-06-17T10:30:35.363-04:00Wow, what a story. Very cool.Wow, what a story. Very cool.Dr. Monkey Von Monkersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14370062692837972451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8133147170181934597.post-68638130741986683552009-06-17T02:30:37.869-04:002009-06-17T02:30:37.869-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Nenohttp://nenoney.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com