Floating on Air With 'Butterfly'; For Actor Liao, Role Caps Transformation

From: The Washington Post | Date: October 10, 2004| Author: Peter Marks | Copyright information

James Hiroyuki Liao can pinpoint the moment his life passed from empty to brimming with possibility. It happened nine years ago at the doorstep of a studio in Greenwich Village. One push of the doorbell and bingo! The embers of a hotheaded adolescence began to be swept away.

"I think this was the real birth of the person I'm glad I became," Liao says. It was his older sister, Marguerite, who had in a sense led him to this spot. She had told him about a publication called Backstage, a t...

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