Funny stories on the road to making TV in China #3
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from Larry Namer,E! Founder.Five years ago was invited to China to teach young Chinese TV executives 'the process of creativity for profit. basically how to create and develop new show ideas that would attract audiences and advertisers. Gordon Chu who interned for me while he was in B school said he would make me up some business cards with my info in Chinese on one side and English on the other. Sounded like a good idea. I left for China with new cards in hand. when I started to give them out to people they openly started to laugh. First I thought they were rude but then thought maybe Larry means something else in Mandarin. Nope it turns out Gordon only knows Cantonese and when you translate my name but say it in Mandarin it means something like internal digestive organs. Gordon was born and raised in the bay area and knows about as much Mandarin as I do.