Timing is everything. Had I known the story of Jake Lee and his lost paintings just a few weeks earlier, they would’ve made for a great feature for the telecast of the Chinese New Year Parade. This year, the broadcast (which I co-anchor) reached millions, by way of the Internet. But the story, about how, after having gone missing for more than 50 years, they were found and acquired by the Chinese Historical Society of America, broke just days before the parade, when KTVU was up to there in preparation work.
So I visited recently and was knocked out by the “Finding Jake Lee” exhibit and its almost fantastic back story. In turn, I knocked out a column about it, and it's at www.AsianConnections.com.
Ben Fong-Torres
is a journalist, author, and broadcaster. He began writing for Rolling Stone in 1968, in its eighth issue. He is the author of nine books, and his most unique TV credit was his triumphant 1993 stint on Wheel of Fortune. He writes the Radio Waves column in the S.F. Chronicle and a column at AsianConnections.com. He is working on a book about Little Feat.